20 THE QUEENS COURIER • DECEMBER 23, 2021 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
editorial
Title: Developer ousts Jack’s Pizza in Bay Terrace
following dispute
Summary: A longtime Bay Terrace pizza shop, Jack’s
Pizza, is closing its doors after nearly 50 years in
business, amid a dispute between the restaurant’s
owners and Cord Meyer, the development company
that owns the Bay Terrace Shopping Center where the
restaurant is located.
Reach: 25,113 (as of 12/20/2021)
Anti-vax desperados
When they look in the mirror, they
see themselves as freedom fi ghters in the
style of Nathan Hale, Davy Crockett and
Th eodore Roosevelt, rising up against
injustice and government overreach to
defend their right to exist.
But to the rest of us, the anti-vaxxers
are nothing close to a freedom fi ghter
— because a genuine patriot is someone
who cares more about the safety
and well-being of others than about
themselves.
It’s bad enough that the vaccine refusers
deny the science of the COVID-
19 vaccine amid the killer pandemic
before us.
It’s bad enough that they choose to
substitute the reality of the vaccine’s
eff ectiveness at stopping severe illness
for some nonexistent Orwellian dystopia,
fed to them by professional liars,
where Big Brother is watching with a
poisonous syringe in their hand.
It’s bad enough that they protest mandates,
supported by the majority of people,
in favor of imposing their own “tyranny
of the minority” where no vaccines
are mandated, and we’re forced
to play Russian roulette with our health
every time we go into a school, a doctor’s
offi ce, a restaurant, a movie theater,
anywhere.
Seemingly realizing their ignorance
isn’t winning the public over, the antivaxxers
Invading public spaces such as malls to
make their point, endangering the vast
majority in the process.
Th at happened last week at the
Cheesecake Factory restaurant in the
Queens Center mall, where the antivaxxers
vaccinated patrons are permitted to
dine, as per city regulations. Six protesters
were arrested; no one knows how
many patrons may wind up being infected
by their stunt.
It’s one thing to protest in the streets,
but it’s another to breach a private business
and intimidate its customers over
a policy for which they have no control.
Whoever decided this stupid, feckless
stunt was a smart idea should be
ashamed, but we question whether they
have such capacity within themselves.
COVID-19 cases are rising again in
New York City. People are getting infected,
including those who got the vaccine
previously.
But hospitalization and death rates are
down, largely because people chose to
get vaccinated — and as a result, their
cases are not as severe.
We wish the anti-vax desperados
would “come to their senses,” get off
their high horses and realize what horrifi
c mistakes they’ve made — “before
it’s too late.”
THE QUEENS
PUBLISHER AND PRESIDENT
CO-PUBLISHER & VICE PRESIDENT
PUBLISHER’S CHIEF OF STAFF
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ART DIRECTOR
DIGITAL EDITOR
STAFF REPORTERS
CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS
PRODUCTION MANAGER
INSIDE SALES MANAGER
PRODUCTION MANAGER CLASSIFIEDS
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
have chosen another tactic:
breached the eatery, where only
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Screenshot via newyorkfreedomrally2/Instagram
A group of people against the COVID-19 vaccine mandate rallied in and outside the Cheesecake Factory
at the Queens Center Mall on Dec. 15.
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