On his way out the door, uniformly loathed New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced one final kick in the balls to the city’s struggling small business owners by ordering them to enforce a vaccine mandate on private businesses.
Effective December 27 and applying to 184,000 businesses, the mandate requires that all workers in private companies in the city present proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.
“We’re going to announce a first-in-the-nation measure,” de Blasio said. “Our health commissioner will announce the vaccine mandate for private sector employers across the board. All private-sector employers in New York City will be covered by this vaccine mandate.”
After imposing a vaccine mandate for those who patronize leisure businesses and certain indoor venues such as restaurants and movie theaters a few months ago, de Blasio expanded that order Monday to include children aged five to eleven, a demographic recently approved to receive the shot. That “Key to NYC” program, under which customers only had to verify that they had one dose, has been updated to a two-dose requirement.
The mayor said additional guidance regarding enforcement and compliance will be issued on December 15.
One wonders what constitutional authority de Blasio thinks makes him God-Emperor of New York City.
Most businesses are already not complying with the existing mandates, and people are announcing they won’t comply with this one:
“We the people will NOT comply” chants in NYC today pic.twitter.com/nNf5EdbncC
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) December 5, 2021
Doubtful anyone will comply and no one will enforce this I bet. I was in NYC in October and most businesses were not complying.
— Chess Is Solved (@ISolvedChess) December 6, 2021
Q: How can he enforce this on businesses that operate without licenses from #nyc?
A: He can’t. Don’t open the door for the deblasio health police. You don’t need a vax to work in most private sector jobs in New York City. The court will tell us this, too. https://t.co/aNWSLxhGVz— Joe Borelli (@JoeBorelliNYC) December 6, 2021
Here’s Louis Rossmann announcing he won’t comply:
He also said that one of his employees came down with a horrible case of myocarditis and a mild heart attack after the second dose of the vaccine. Maybe he just got terribly unlucky, or maybe myocarditis is a much more prevalent side effect than we’ve been led to believe.
I am 5 hours into my 12 hour shift and have already treated 3 vax injuries. Heart attack, 36y/o, Stroke, 44y/o and a lower leg blood clot, 29y/o. All recently vaccinated. Heart attack and stroke patients are critical. I don’t know which vax they had.
— Jenn, RN MSN (@PhilsandJenn) December 5, 2021
Back to Rossmann:
“That employee is then going to tell me to gargle his balls. And when he says that, that’s not going to be sexual harassment, that’s just going to be the natural response to when somebody demands that you get a medical procedure in order to keep your job.”
“The other reason I am against these mandates [is] because they create culture wars that are detrimental to actually getting people vaccinated and caring about public health.”
Correct. This would suggest that vaccine mandates are no longer about public health (of they ever were).
“This is going to create more anti-vaxxers than that would have ever existed otherwise.”
Correct. Maybe that’s the intent. Or more likely, the intent is to impose compliance to government mandates for the sake of imposing compliance to government mandates. To better prepare the population for the next mandatory compliance measure coming down the pike that our elite ruling class will feel free to ignore.
Every. Knee. Must. Bend.
“It’s one of those things where I genuinely believe that it might just be the kick in the ass necessary to actually get people here to consider alternatives to being in New York City as a business.”
Rossmann is the sort of moderate that’s being redpilled by Democratic politicians’ relentless drive for greater regulation. (To say nothing of their manifest incompetence and the baleful effects of their soft on crime policies.)
With Biden’s federal vaccine mandate already permanently blocked by the the courts, it seems unlikely de Blasio’s mandate would pass constitutional muster either. And incoming mayor Eric Adams may immediately eliminate the mandate.
But the continued drive among so many nations worldwide to impose lockdowns and mandates in the face of evidence that they seem to have no effect on the spread of Flu Manchu, and generate widespread opposition from their citizens, indicates that something other than reasonable health policies are at work here.
Update: De Blasio’s mandate has already been blocked.
Tags: Bill De Blasio, coronavirus, Democrats, Louis Rossmann, myocarditis, New York City, Regulation
When the world went crazy 21 months (fka 15 days) ago, I asked, “If you think this is a good idea, what will you do the next time?” Well, the next time was the same time….I guess.
IMHO the herd has reached mass psychosis. Our only hope is a Spring reset where Bozo-Blasios don’t attribute nature’s course to “their” omniscience. A return to sanity is not where I’d put my money right now.
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They become god-emperors because they take the incremental approach to tyranny. The “boil the frog” approach. But hopefully they are going too far this time. They may end up controlling the cities but they will be places where no one except Snake Plissken will want to live.
Snake didn’t want to live there. That’s why those movies were titled “Escape From-“
– Dr. Floyd Ferris, Atlas Shrugged
Thanks for this–didn’t know about the interesting Mr. Rossman. So shocking, though, that he finds a clip–at 11:38–of DeBlasio daring to say the words, “the voluntary stage is over.” That’s almost as bad as what media personality Jim Cramer recently said in a (career-killing?) rant, that the military needs to forcibly vax the unvaxxed.
With DeBlasio, this is unashamed a) love of despotic government, b) betrayal of basic American norms, c) and HATRED MADE POLICY. For more on the hatred issue, see my recent essay at PostModernConservative substack on why a (fine) song by Durand Jones and the Indications, “Love Will Work It Out,” couldn’t work in 2021.
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