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LA City Council Approves Sweeping COVID Vaccine Mandate To Enter Restaurants, Shopping Centers, Mayor Garcetti Signs Ordinance

LA City Council Approves Sweeping COVID Vaccine Mandate To Enter Restaurants, Shopping Centers, Mayor Garcetti Signs Ordinance

By CBSLA Staff October 6, 2021 at 7:10 pm

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/06/la-city-council-approves-sweeping-covid-vaccine-mandate-to-enter-restaurants-shopping-centers/

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved a sweeping ordinance that will require proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to enter restaurants, bars, shopping centers and other establishments.

The ordinance was approved by an 11-2 margin. It needed 12 votes to pass with an emergency clause which would have allowed it to take effect immediately. Instead, the earliest it can take effect is in one month, or on Nov. 6.

Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the ordinance to require people to show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination.

This was the second vote on the ordinance. Last week, Councilman Joe Buscaino invoked a city council rule that allowed him to withhold unanimous consent, preventing the council from voting on the ordinance on its first reading. Buscaino and fellow Councilman John Lee dissented on Wednesday.

The ordinance will apply to:

Restaurants, bars, fast food establishments, coffee shops, tasting rooms, cafeterias, food courts, breweries, wineries, distilleries banquet halls and hotel ballrooms.

Gyms and fitness venues, including recreation facilities, fitness studios (including for yoga, pilates, dance, and barre), boxing gyms, fitness boot camps and facilities that hold indoor group fitness classes.

Entertainment and recreation venues including movie theaters, shopping centers, concert venues, performance venues, adult entertainment venues, commercial event and party venues, sports arenas, convention centers, exhibition halls, museums, malls, performing arts theaters, bowling alleys, arcades, card rooms, family entertainment centers, pool and billiard halls, play areas and game centers.

Personal care establishments, including spas, nail salons, hair salons, barbershops, tanning salons, estheticians, skin care, tattoo shops, piercing shops and massage therapy locations, unless medically required.

People will be exempt from the mandate if they have medical conditions that restrict their ability to get vaccinated or a “sincerely held religious belief,” which will be reviewed by the location the person is trying to enter. People who are exempt would be able to use outdoor areas of the location, but if unavailable, they may be allowed to enter the indoor area by providing proof of a negative COVID-19 test.

The ordinance will also require people to show proof of vaccination, or a negative COVID-19 test to attend outdoor events with 5,000 or more people.

Retail establishments, including grocery stores and pharmacies, are not included in the ordinance.

Enforcement of compliance will likely begin Nov. 29. Businesses that violate the ordinance would be issued a $1,000 fine for its second violation, $2,000 fine for a third violation and a $5,000 fine for a fourth violation.

U.S. Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Santa Clarita) also criticized the ordinance.

“Hospitalizations and deaths are down 45% from last month, but the city is now putting in place the most radical measures yet,” Garcia tweeted.

This will be markedly stricter than the order passed by the L.A. County Public Health Department earlier this month mandating people show proof of vaccination to enter bars, lounges, breweries, wineries and nightclubs. They will have to show proof of at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine beginning on Oct. 7, and proof of full vaccination by Nov. 4. The L.A. County order also calls for either proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within the past 72 hours to attend outdoor events with 10,000 or more people.

The city of L.A. ordinance will be similar to policies in West Hollywood, New York and San Francisco. West Hollywood’s policy to require adult patrons entering many indoor businesses to submit proof of at least partial vaccination goes into effect on Thursday, with full vaccination required beginning Nov. 4.

 

Connecting the Dots right through the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

 

Eric Garcetti is the Los Angeles California mayor, and a trustee at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Soros is the president emeritus for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and George Soros’s nephew.

George Soros is Jeffrey Soros’s uncle and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Mark B. McClellan was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.

Constance J. Horner is a director at Pfizer Inc. and was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Suzanne Nora Johnson is a director at Pfizer Inc. and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Amy W. Schulman is the EVP & general counsel for Pfizer Inc. and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Resources Past Research: 

Barack Obama Endorses Mayor Eric Garcetti for Re-election in L.A. (Past Research on Mayor Eric Garcetti)

SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/05/barack-obama-endorses-mayor-eric.html

Eric Garcetti Tries to Quell ‘Panic’ After Official Declares 3 More Months of Lockdowns (Connecting Eric Garcetti’s dots right to George Soros nephew, Imagine that!) (Past Research on Mayor Eric Garcetti, George Soros nephew and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles)

SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2020

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2020/05/eric-garcetti-tries-to-quell-panic.html  

FORMER PFIZER EMPLOYEE: "CHECKMATE. GAME OVER. WE WIN" (“Connecting the Dots”) (Past Research on the FDA & Pfizer)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/08/former-pfizer-employee-checkmate-game_26.html

The Museum of Contemporary Art (Networking here)

https://www.moca.org/about/board

Board of Trustees 2019-2020

Maria Seferian, Chair
Carolyn Clark Powers, President
Eugenio Lopez, Vice Chair
Heather Podesta, Secretary
Maurice Marciano, Chair Emeritus
Clifford J. Einstein, Chair Emeritus
Dallas Price - Van Breda, President Emeritus
Jeffrey Soros, President Emeritus

 

Wallis Annenberg
Carol Appel
Klaus Biesenbach*
Mark Bradford
Yael Cohen Braun
Gabriel Brener
Adrian Cheng
Steven A. Cohen
Kathi B. Cypres
Ariel Emanuel
Marina Kellen French
The Honorable Eric Garcetti*
Susan Gersh
Shari Glazer
Laurence Graff
Mark Grotjahn
Karyn Kohl
Barbara Kruger
Wonmi Kwon
Mary Klaus Martin
Simon Mordant
Peter Morton
Catherine Opie
Sean Parker
Chara Schreyer
Terri Smooke
Julia Stoschek
Sutton Stracke
Jon Stryker
Carlo Traglio
Christopher Walker
Council President Nury Martinez*
Orna Amir Wolens

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