Mayor Eric Adams declared a special carve-out to New York City’s employer vaccine mandate Thursday for professional athletes and performers, allowing unvaccinated athletes like Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving back onto his home court.
“Today I signed an emergency executive order expanding the performance exemption to the private employer vaccine mandate,” he said.
Why is any emergency executive order needed? Why is there a ridiculous vaccine mandate in place? Was it put in place by legislation passed by the City Council? This is just one more step in the process of getting people to accept any order given by government higher-ups.
The newly elected mayor said he wasn’t making the move “loosely or haphazardly, we’re making it because this city has to function.” Adams noted the declining NYC economy, marked by vacancies in offices and high unemployment, and the importance of making “tough decisions” to “move this city forward.”
Tough decisions? The mandates and other social mitigation strategies were nonsense. They were put in place to help steal an election in 2020. The public was told “15 days to slow the spread.” That morphed into two years of lost liberties in this country. Why?
The exemption for athletes and entertainers comes ahead of the upcoming baseball season, opening the field for unvaccinated Mets and Yankees to play home games too. Roughly two-thirds of Yankees players and at least ten Mets remain unvaccinated and will now be able to participate, Jon Heyman of the MLB Network noted.
Adams is sure to face accusations of favoritism, given his decision to accomodate Irving and the entertainment sector while requiring the city’s many other private large and small businesses to deal with cumbersome enforcement for their workforces. This is discrimination on a major scale. Adams is trying to force small businesses out of business.
There’s also potentially more liability coming for the mayor’s office, as Adams may have to answer for the hundreds of NYC firefighters, nurses, and police officers who were fired for being unvaccinated over the last year, while wealthy figures like Irving receive special treatment.
It is time for a huge class action suit against NYC. The people in charge abused the public with their mandates. Forcing people to get jabbed with an experimental drug or lose their job violates the Nuremberg code.