"sarah palin has now dined al fresco on the upper east side...flouted the city's vax mandate...."

[orleans]

Link to tweet

COVID-positive Sarah Palin has now dined al fresco on the Upper East Side two nights in a row. After eating at Campagnola Tuesday, she returned to Elio’s last night — where she reportedly flouted the city’s vax mandate this weekend https://gothamist.com/news/sarah-palin-dined-multiple-restaurants-after-getting-covid

edited to add:

Link to tweet

Ina statement to Gothamist, a spokesperson for City Hall encouraged “any New Yorker who came into contact with Ms. Palin to get tested, just as we encourage all New Yorkers to get tested regularly, especially those who believe they may have been exposed…”

[cilla4progress]

1. What a pig.

Why is she allowed in these places??

[usedtobedemgurl]

17. Has Anyone Asked The Restaurants....

If she showed a vaxxed card? I suspect she was let in because she is secretly vaxxed, keeping her base by telling them she is not.

[samplegirl]

2. She's nothing but trash

They should of thrown her out on her ass!

[IggleDuer]

3. "any New Yorker who came into contact with Ms. Palin to get tested" ...

for Chlamydia too.

[MLAA]

4. +1

[nykym]

5. And a really

HOT SHOWER with plenty of soap.

[MLAA]

6. Tested and immediately start rabies shots and antibiotics concurrently.

[Lunabell]

7. What the actual

fuck is wrong with these people?!?!? Are they even people? Can we really count them among humanity any more? They're monsters, no better than the lowest of flesh suits who kill humans for pleasure.

[dchill]

8. She's really unnecessary.

[Tanuki]

9. Presumably she flew into one of the airports there as well, exposing

countless fellow travelers and employees on the flights and in terminals. They should be warned about exposure to this selfish creep's pestilence.

[bdamomma]

10. let her go

back to Alaska instead of spreading the virus. What a jerk.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. but,when ca gov . newsome does this using mask guidlines . he gets flack for it.

[Blue Owl]

12. Al Frescovid Barbie

[Maraya1969]

13. Why didn't they stop her? I thought it was a law.

[woodsprite]

14. At this point, I'm blaming the restaurants.

She's a visitor to their city, but they know what their local rules are (and so did she), but they're ignoring them to appease her party. I say fine them out the whazzoo.

[WA-03 Democrat]

16. Yes agree

Takes two to tango

[RockCreek]

20. Ditto

And a good way to loose local customers in NYC! NYers have been through enough already.

[llashram]

15. Ms Palin

was an idiot long before she became one of trumps idiots.

[hedda_foil]

18. Alfresco means outdoors. If she ate outside is that against the rules?

[orleans]

22. one of the tweets shows a picture of her & a couple others sitting at a table--looks like

it's inside

don't know how current that photo is tho

[orleans]

23. on edit

"The former Alaska governor returned to Elio's restaurant Wednesday night and dined outdoors just days after it was revealed she tested positive for COVID-19. Palin, who has touted the fact that she is not vaccinated, was seen dining inside the Upper East Side Italian restaurant on Saturday, before her diagnosis. The city requires proof of vaccination to eat indoors."

and the link has the photo of her inside with caption: "Sarah Palin dined at Elio's again Wednesday after getting COVID-19"

And WNYC/Gothamist confirmed the former vice presidential candidate dined al fresco Tuesday night at Campagnola, another Italian restaurant in the area.

“Tonight Sarah Palin returned to the restaurant to apologize for the fracas around her previous visit,” Elio’s manager, Luca Guaitolini, said in a statement Wednesday night. “In accordance with the vaccine mandate and to protect our staff, we seated her outdoors … We are a restaurant open to the public, and we treat civilians the same.”

Palin is in town to pursue her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial that erroneously tied her rhetoric to the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona.

During a court proceeding Monday, the judge revealed Palin had received positive COVID tests. While the city does not prohibit people with COVID from dining in public, federal and local guidance recommends isolating for five days to protect others from contracting the virus.

“She tested positive and is out on the town,” said Amanda Wolfe, a 28-year-old Upper East Side resident who walked by Palin eating outdoors Tuesday night. “There’s such a lack of care for the people around you and the people in New York City.”

On Wednesday, Palin returned to Elio’s and was witnessed by reporters there as her dinner ended. She was joined by retired hockey player and one-time New York Ranger Ron Duguay, who reportedly was seen with Palin on Saturday as well.

more details at the link (kind of interesting)
https://gothamist.com/news/sarah-palin-dined-multiple-restaurants-after-getting-covid

[Mr. Ected]

19. Who is supposed to enforce the city ordinance? The restaurant or the police?

If nothing else, there's enough photographic evidence to bring her up on charges if she's truly violated the statute.

[usonian]

21. "I did my own research" on al fresco.

It has some additional meanings. Good and bad.

1. From Culture Trip (https://theculturetrip.com/europe/italy/articles/al-fresco-in-italy-has-a-very-different-meaning-than-everywhere-else/)

When tourists are in a restaurant and want to eat outside, they usually say they want to eat ‘al fresco’. This is a funny mistake. In Italian, the expression has a completely different meaning. ‘Al fresco’ literally means ‘in prison’! The reason why it means that is probably because in the past, prisons were very cold places with thick walls (‘fresco’ means ‘cold’).

2. The term has sometimes been used to refer to nudity.
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alfresco -- scroll through the comments.

I have heard the word used to mean "naked' or "nude." Makes sense to me... in the open air.