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New city, state COVID mandates threaten small businesses (NY - government agencies exempt)
NY Post ^ | 9/18/21 | Kerry J. Byrne, Rich Calder

Posted on 09/19/2021 7:28:40 AM PDT by Libloather

Big Brother is watching.

Everything from an employee’s sneeze to a tourist’s vaccination papers are now under the watchful eye of the government thanks to a pair of new COVID-19 mandates, one from City Hall and another from Albany.

New York City’s beleaguered small businesses, still struggling to stay alive, fear they’ll buckle under the weight of the added burdens.

“We are finished,” one longtime Manhattan business operator told The Post, while lamenting both mandates and the “army of morons” enforcing the city’s vaccine protocols.

“They just want to crush the hell out of small businesses. These are sick people.”

The city’s well-publicized vaccine mandate, which went into effect Monday, has deputized “thousands” of public employees to roam the city as COVID cops and issue fines of up to $5,000.

The less-heralded HERO Act, quietly enacted by Gov. Hochul last week, places page after page of onerous new demands on businesses statewide - while exempting government agencies.

The HERO (Health and Essential Rights) Act was passed into law in May, but became effective on Sept. 6, when Gov. Hochul declared COVID an airborne infectious disease.

The act micromanages the smallest details of business hygiene, including “sneezing etiquette” and “shaking out soiled laundry,” and empowers workers to sue their employers for up to $20,000 for minor infractions.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: business; covid; mandate; ny
The city’s enforcement plan enlists agents from 13 different departments, ranging from parks employees to sanitation workers.

The fun police.

1 posted on 09/19/2021 7:28:40 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2 posted on 09/19/2021 7:32:14 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: Libloather
The fun police.

If you think of Dems as "Enthusiastic Puritans" and Republicans as "Reluctant Puritans", it all makes sense. Too bad John Candy isn't around to reprise his role in Wally World; probably would a great chance to satirize the whole thing, but probably would not be made today.

3 posted on 09/19/2021 7:44:30 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: Libloather
A test for the rest of America's domination by
democrat tyrants.

Coming soon to an area near you.

4 posted on 09/19/2021 7:55:00 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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He cites the state’s own report last year which found only 1.4 percent of COVID transmissions were traced to bars and restaurants, while 74 percent were traced to the home. Other states reported similar findings.

Good luck sending these patrolmen into people's homes.

5 posted on 09/19/2021 7:57:13 AM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: Libloather
The latest fashion statement...


6 posted on 09/19/2021 7:59:33 AM PDT by reintarnation
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"The fun police. "

More like Vogons.

7 posted on 09/19/2021 8:18:27 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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New city, state COVID mandates threaten small businesses (NY - government agencies exempt)

It's an emergency. Follow the science.

8 posted on 09/19/2021 8:51:42 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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How can anyone stand to live in this dystopian hellhole? I went to a brew pub last night and everything was totally normal. People were having a good time and I didn’t see a single mask. And there certainly wasn’t anyone asking for a vax passport. But, I live in Alaska, where life has been pretty much back to normal since May 2020 out where I live.


9 posted on 09/19/2021 10:11:37 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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