Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 3:27 pm EST
BOSTON (LifeSiteNews) — In yet another sign of the public’s exhaustion with restrictions, the left-wing enclave of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the latest major cities to drop its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses.
Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu made the announcement Friday that customers would no longer be required to show proof of vaccination for entry, effective immediately. The local mask mandate remains in effect, but city health officials say that will be reviewed next.
“We took down the mandate posters, we told our staff. It’s one less thing we have to manage on a day-to-day basis. We can focus on our guests. It’s so uplifting to hear these things,” Casey Furtaw of area restaurant Sonsie told CBS Boston.
“I think it’s good for people to feel like progress is being made,” Mark Erelli added. “If certain benchmarks are met than I think it’s good for constraints to change. Otherwise, it begins to feel like what can we possibly do to get beyond this?”
CBS reports that Boston “has a 4.0% community positivity rate; 90.7% occupancy rate of adult ICU beds, and a 7-day average of adult COVID-19
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