For restaurants I’m all for a restaurant doing whatever they want if the governments have no mandates. I wish we had vaccine mandates for restaurants here where I live for indoor dining, and I wish they would not seat more than 6 people together.
Especially, in cities like NYC and other very densely populated metropolitan areas I’m all for the city doing vaccine mandates for restaurants and other indoor venues and also mask mandates.
I hear my friends in TN complaining about NYC rules and I just tell them that I thought they were for “state’s rights and let New Yorkers worry about NY.” I don’t give a f&%k what someone in Germantown, TN thinks about a precaution NYC is taking.
I think cruise ships should be able to mandate whatever they want also.
I do think proof of antibodies and a negative antigen test can be a substitute, but for places like restaurants that’s too much work regarding customers.
As for confrontations like @jca2 mentioned, I don’t think any employees at stores or restaurants should be getting into arguments. If someone is an asshole just let them eat or call the authorities. I see the mandates in America as more of an expectation and not something anyone should risk getting into a scuffle with some idiot.