Posted on 10/30/2021 7:42:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he expects to see a rise in vaccinations among municipal workers in line with his mandate, telling reporters that the “human reality” is city employees will decide to get the shot rather than face unpaid leave.
De Blasio made the remarks during an Oct. 28 press conference, on the eve of a looming Oct. 29 deadline for municipal workers to receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with no testing opt-out, or face being sent home without pay starting Monday, Nov. 1.
Thousands of municipal workers took to the streets in protests earlier in the week after de Blasio announced a sweeping mandate in the prior week requiring the entire municipal workforce to get vaccinated, with no testing option.
Asked by a reporter at Thursday’s press conference whether he was having any second thoughts about the mandate given the likelihood that some police, fire, and sanitation workers would rather quit or go on leave rather than get the shot, the New York mayor replied in the negative.
“No, I am not having second thoughts,” de Blasio said. “We expected that a lot of the vaccinations would happen toward the end of the deadline. We also know a lot of people make the decision once they really realize that they’re not going to get paid. That’s just the human reality.”
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No doubt. Power, control. These people are mentally ill. It seems that Americans are starting to wake up though. If they can force unnecessary medical procedures on people they can force anything. A stand has to be taken. I am glad the police and fire and hospital workers are taking one for America. It must be hard on them individually. Maybe when fires don’t get put out, when ambulances don’t show up, when 911 crime calls don’t get a squad car the pendulum will swing the other way.
Try the human reality argument with people on public assistance. He won’t.
Remember, Deblasio claimed there was no threat from the virus back in March of 2020? His response caused NYC to become the ground zero for death and destruction from COVID
What an effing Nazi.
Well they’re actually power addicted......they love that they can hold anything over the publics head.
That would be nice.
Am I to assume all of libtard nation has been jabbed?
And his medicine cabinet is full of HCQ and Ivermectin.
That idiot had a naval hospital he never used.
Franklin Graham set up stations he never used and he had the gall to tax their payroll.
God is large and in charge.
Wheels do turn.
And speaking of music, I wonder if Wilhelm is into Swing?
Yes. Which is why the people need to take a firm stand. These power addicted control freaks won’t be able stand the heat when the people rise up in anger against them because the government policies no longer function for the benefit of the people.
Perhaps a premature example but the governor’s race in VA could be an example. When that jagoff basically said that the government knows what is best for people’s children they got rightly indignant. And the worst part of it may not be the hubris of the statement, but that these jerks have created for themselves a built-in voting block through government employee unions and the like. So they put themselves in a box, and now it’s time to seal them inside.
It would probably be a bad assumption. They just know how to rig things to make you think they are all in lockstep. The debate over the Biden agenda shows they are not. Now is the time to really divide them and show them for who they are. All those pretentious videos they produce, all their idiotic rhetoric, all their contradictions (masks for thee but not for me) are wedges that need to be shoved right ######## between them.
Changes are happening outside of government control.
Most will know what I mean.
Regardless of how the mid-terms go....Bidens got 3 more years ...and a pen.
I bet they could cut it to half a bowl and people would still work
True, but they can do less damage if they lose control of the Senate or the House.
He can have his 3 years and a pen, so long as he has nothing important to sign.
I have a friend, he’s a big city cop. He’s a few months from being able to retire. But if he sticks around four more years he’ll get a big bump in his health insurance. A few months ago he was strongly leaning to stick around because none of us are getting any younger and health insurance is important. But as of two weeks ago, he’s gone the other way. Looking for home and work in Idaho.
I asked his wife, there are probably so many cops in Idaho that it’s impossible to find LEO work. She said they don’t care. He’ll work at Home Depot if he has to. He’ll be a bar bouncer. He’ll pave roads. It’s gotten that bad in his mind.
I would be walking out the door before they finished the sentence.
May as well have said “Ya see, I tell ya, we’ve gottem by the curly shorts. Once their kids are goin’ hungry, they’ll cave. They’ll cave, no doubt. We’ll see’em come crawlin’ back on their hands and knees”.
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