Many restaurant workers say they’ve grown largely ambivalent about the continued threat of COVID. chrisecrowley reports
The West Village’s Commerce Inn. Photo: Andrew Bui Last Wednesday, as the sky broke open outside, the dining room inside Place des Fêtes was humming. Since opening earlier this year — a few weeks after Mayor Eric Adams ended vaccine mandates at restaurants — the Clinton Hill wine bar has been more or less full, and on this night, customers freely chatted over glasses of Grenache and plates of mussels drowned in squid ink, just as they might have in 2018, or 2004.
The pandemic, in other words, is far from over, but one reason the masks at Place des Fêtes are so striking is because they are one of the few examples of COVID safety precautions that are still in place in the city’s bars and restaurants. Instead, even many of the workers who interact with the public for eight to ten hours at a time say they’ve grown largely ambivalent about the continued threat of this virus.
Like others, he says the arrival of Omicron — when cases surged dramatically, but hospitalizations and deaths didn’t among people who are vaccinated — was a turning point in attitudes among his coworkers. “People were pretty concerned then, but ever since, I don’t know, February, no one really seems to care all that much about it.”
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