Wu cited metrics showing that Boston had reached all three thresholds for ending the requirement: less than 95% of ICU beds occupied, hospitalizations under 200 per day and a local case positivity rate under 5%. Paul also ended its proof-of-vaccination requirement for indoor venues.īoston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Friday that that the city's "B Together" vaccine requirement was suspended, effective immediately. Seattle's King County also decided Wednesday to drop all vaccine requirements for indoor activities and large outdoor events starting March 1. On Wednesday, Philadelphia announced it was tying vaccine requirements to specific COVID-19 metrics and that vaccine proof would no longer be required for indoor dining. Individual businesses can still choose to keep the mandate - DCist lists at least 38 venues that will continue to require proof of vaccination for entry. On Tuesday, Washington, DC, declared that "indoor venues will no longer be required to verify that patrons are vaccinated," effective immediately. Paul all lifted their vaccine requirements or announced imminent end dates. Over the past week, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Seattle and Minneapolis/St. The declining number of COVID-19 cases and resulting drop in hospitalization and severe disease have prompted some major American cities to end proof-of-vaccination requirements for restaurants and other indoor public spaces. As for Putin: “While he may make gains on the battlefield, he will pay a continuing high price over the long run.For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. President Joe Biden said he’d go after the oligarchs all right, and right smartly too. After the invasion, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed that “very soon the Russian leadership will feel what a high price they will have to pay.” In his State of the Union address this week, U.S. Before the Russian invasion last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was saying Putin would pay a “high price” if he invaded Ukraine. Kill the body and the head will die.īut we’ve been left to wonder if that’s really the point of the sanctions exercise. These amassed fortunes amount to about $640 billion, and a great deal of that loot is invested in various properties and ventures in the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada and the United States. Ordinary Russians will suffer, so the prime targets have got to be among the roughly 500 Russian oligarchs, kleptocrats and Putin-connected industrialists who own as much wealth as the rest of the Russian people combined. After 2014 a dollar cost about 56 rubles. As of yesterday it was 119 rubles to the dollar. Before the 2014 sanctions provoked by Putin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and his proxy forces’ takeover of huge swathes of Donbas, you could buy an American dollar with 28 rubles. The fierce financial sanctions that are battering Putin’s banks and his institutions and his oligarchs are all well and good too. It’s all well and good what the NATO countries are doing, rushing arms to Ukraine if the Ukrainian forces somehow obtain all the promised Javelins and Stinger missiles and Surface-to-Air Missile batteries in time, that will be as good as a NATO-enforced no-fly zone without NATO warplanes that aren’t coming anyway. We can’t allow Putin to do to Kharkiv and Kyiv what he was permitted to do to Aleppo. We have to remember that there is no bottom to the depths of Putin’s barbarism.
Ukrainians cannot be made to fight this war, our common fight, on their own. We can’t allow the Ukrainian resistance to end this way. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. National Capital Region's Top Employers.