Noted public-health policy scofflaw Mayor Breed recently announced that proof of vaccination will no longer be required to enter restaurants, bars and nightclubs. She framed this as helping our businesses. Well, this business does not need or want that kind of "help". And I know of quite a few other San Francisco bars and clubs that feel the same way.
DNA Lounge's policy is unchanged: we will continue to take steps necessary to reduce the risk of infection to our staff, families and customers:
- Proof of full vaccination is required for entry.
- Fully vaccinated means 2 weeks after your booster, if it has been 6 months since your first round.
- Masks are required inside.
The Mayor and SFDPH are playing politics with peoples' lives. Pretending that the pandemic is over does not make it so. These are the facts:
- SF is only 65% fully vaccinated -- not 83% as the mayor continues to disingenuously claim.
- If you aren't boosted, vaccine efficacy drops to 50%. These days, unboosted is the same as half vaccinated.
- The BA.2 variant is outstripping Omicron in our wastewater samples. It is 30% more infectious.
- Most SF cases are breakthrough infections.
- Long COVID is a real threat to everyone, even the young and healthy, and it is still poorly understood.
- The bars are going to be packed for St. Patrick's Day.
- Kids are going to go away for Spring Break, return, and spread their new infections to schools, families and workplaces.
- Then cases will spike again, just like last time!
- When you are 3/4ths of the way to the finish line is not when you stop running.
Short of another lockdown, the most effective ways to fight the pandemic are:
- Vaccinations -- we require them of our staff and customers.
- Masks -- we require them of our staff and customers.
- Airflow -- ours is very good.
- Testing -- we continue to test all of our staff weekly.
Also, just a reminder: CDC recently re-colored the maps to declare victory. These two maps represent approximately the same data:
They made the new "low" threshold be twice the old "high" threshold.
That old map, the all-red map on the left, is a map of new infections per 100k people: it correlates well to your chance of exposure and infection. CDC's term for this is "Community Transmission".
The map on the right is the new one that they say we should be paying attention to instead: the "Community Levels" map, which is basically new infections DIVIDED BY available hospital beds.
So they're saying that it's ok to unmask as long as there is still freezer truck morgue capacity available in your city.
This is all just so exhausting. We are finally almost back down to pre-Delta-surge levels, and that's when they decide to go full YOLO and eliminate every possible mitigation measure. Like all of you, I would also like the pandemic to be over. But, again, wishing does not make it so.
In other news, DNA Pizza opened 11 years ago today. Happy birthday to us!
Update: I have disabled comments on this post because it had become a honeypot for antivaxxers and out-of-state trolls. If you have questions, comments or suggestions about our policies, you can email me directly. Thanks, and stay safe!
36 Responses:
Thanks for this. I'm tired of bullshit centrist capitulation to ghouls.
Do you accept non-US proof of vaccination, ie EU vax app or yellow WHO vaccination booklet?
Funny enough DNA does not have time to reply to real questions here, but they have time to bash comments that criticize their policy.
I'm also curious if EU covid pass QR code will do, and why less than half of the people wear mask inside in the photos if that's mandatory.
Someone already answered the question about scanners, but hey thanks for not bothering to read. Also if you were under the impression that this blog is a tech support channel, it's not. If you have specific questions about your situation, send us email.
The reason you still see a lot of people without masks is because those people are assholes, and they outnumber our staff by a lot. We try, but it's a losing battle when literally everyone else in the building has decided that public health doesn't matter to them.
The one place we consistently win this battle is at the bar, because our bartenders won't speak to you if you aren't wearing a mask. So at least they aren't spitting directly into our staff's faces as they order their drinks. But most of these people just turn around and tear their mask off right after, because they don't care about you or about us.
I don't know what I can do to fix them.
And we're grateful for your diligence in light of the epic fail by Mayor McGreedy and her libertarian sycophants.
Jules, Yes we do. We have six or seven qr code reader apps, including EU.
Cheers
Happy birthday DNA Pizza!
I really, really hope that this is the year I can finally travel to visit you.
65% fully vaccinated, seems really low.
Yeah, what's up with SF?
Both San Mateo county (due south) and Santa Clara County (next one south) are both over 90%, if you believe the county public health dashboards.
If you see a page claiming 90% vaccination rate, that almost certainly does not mean "has a booster", and it might well mean only "had their first shot but not their second". Without a booster, you are at 50% efficacy.
Only 38% of vaccinated Californians have gotten a booster shot [...] The Bay Area boasts the highest rate, at 55%, and only three counties have more than half of their vaccinated population boosted: San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo. In 19 California counties, less than a third of eligible residents are boosted."
DNA Lounge's dress code explicitly forbids tinfoil hats.
Yes, I was joking. In reality they're just dumb, and give in to economic forces too soon. How often the pandemic has already been declared over...
I'm very glad to see this! Thanks for leading by maintaining common-sense pandemic safety measures.
Have you considered also publishing real-time & historical airflow data (e.g. CO2 measurements)?
Man fuck DNA. Yall knowingly stole hella peoples money just cause of all these beliefs about vaccination. Everyone can still get covid and spread it the same, and you guys are hella petty about refunds and the way you guys insult people and respond is so unprofessional. Probably gunna act like I'm the crazy one responding this way but I wanna get my message across to you guys cause ik I'm not the only one feeling this way. If yall really cared about the spread of covid youd REALLY make sure everyone in the venue is wearing a mask. Claiming you're all about safety and every video I've seen on IG in the venue shows everyone maskless. Get outta here. Sucks this was a cool venue for edm events but I'd rather take my money elsewhere.
I can't decide which one this is:
1: "I knew what the entry requirements were, figured I could BS my way in, failed"
2: "I got thrown out, so here's a bunch of things other than that I'm gonna bitch about instead"
Don't let the door hit you in the ass, friend.
Nah I bought tickets to two events before you guys announced youd be asking for proof of vaccination and I asked for a refund since I wasn't planning on getting vaccinated and you guys were just assholes about it to me and everyone else who was asking questions about refunds
We offer refunds when it's our fault (cancelled show), not when it's your fault (choosing not to get vaccinated, not having ID, got kicked out, made other plans).
And in your case -- not planning to get vaccinated at all -- you absolutely don't deserve a refund, because you're actively trying to get people killed. Fuck you entirely.
Too bad you don't have literally every other club to patronise as an alternative. Woe is you.😢
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People have the right to decide what goes inside their own bodies. That is the most basic human right. It’s not your place to tell people what they should do with their own bodies. Inb4 “oh you must be a pro lifer”. No I’m not. That kind of a response to someone who asked for refunds because YOU changed your venue policies AFTER the fact gives you no grounds to hold someone’s money hostage.
I hope you get sued abs you deserve to lose all the money and run out of business.
We did not change our venue policies after the fact. The policies have been what they are for a very, very long time, and are very clearly stated before, during and after purchase. When the policies have changed, there has been ample warning.
So you're just making shit up.
Since you're too cowardly to include your real name or email address, I can only assume that you are not now, nor have ever been, our customer and probably don't even live in this state.
You unfortunately do have the "right" to be an antivax idiot, and I have the right to not let you in my fucking building. See? Everybody's happy.
Narrator: Nobody was happy.
...and yet, it's you anti-vaxxers/-maskers seeking DNA's attention; not the other way around. Funny that.
Here's footage of you types trying to get in the club:
ok boomer no cap bet
Post-Gen-Xer, actually; one who can go to the DNA Lounge anytime he wants because he's been 💉.
Yeah... shame on them for wanting to keep their staff and patrons safe instead of catering to anti-vaxx/-mask cry-babies.
Such a shame. 😆
We'll see how long they can manage to stay open excluding more and more of the population not willing to participate anymore in the infinite booster cycle. /shrug
that "unwilling" population catches the virus and winds up wishing they'd gotten 💉 and boosted.
**laughs in natural immunity**
That "laughter" sounds more like one literally coughing up their own lungs.
Enjoy your 8th booster!
I will, 'cause it'll allow me into the one place you can't go: The DNA Lounge.
Did you just assume I am unvaccinated? Cool it with the antisemitism bro
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It looks like the CDC's change in verbiage is trickling down to corporate institutions.
I heard that a hospital announced that they were no longer going to require masking or social distancing for vaccinated employees, in non-patient areas. (For the record, I'm told there's a lot of compliance among employees in non-patient areas for all three (masking, distancing, vaccination).)
Anyway, buried in the middle of the news release, surrounded by claims to want "to keep everyone safe," it said something like, "Teams are welcome to have big, dense events again. But because they might turn into a Covid-party, some of the team should stay home, to maintain operational capability."
As I understood it, "We don't care if Covid impacts you, we only care if it impacts us."