New York City Announces Vaccine Mandate for Private Sector Workers

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Since October, New York City has required all public sector workers, such as teachers, police officers, and civil servants, to be vaccinated against Covid, and has recently announced that the mandate will soon extend to all private sector employees. The policy will come into force on December 27th, with Mayor Bill de Blasio calling it a “pre-emptive strike” against a potential winter surge in Covid cases. Metro has the story.

The aggressive, first-of-its-kind measure, is what de Blasio is calling a “pre-emptive strike” to combat the expected surge in Covid cases this winter, as the Delta and Omicron variants create growing cause for concern.

“We in New York City have decided to use a pre-emptive strike, to really do something bold to stop the further growth of Covid and the dangers it’s causing to all of us,” the soon-to-be departing mayor said Monday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show.

Vaccination requirement for hospital and nursing home staff as well as city employees, including teachers, police officers and firefighters has been in place since October.

“Omicron is here, and it looks like it’s very transmissible. The timing is horrible with the winter months,” de Blasio said.

“So as of today, we’re going to announce a first-in-the-nation measure. Our health commissioner will announce a vaccine mandate for private sector employers across the board.”

The mayor is expected to provide additional details to the new policy at a 10am briefing.

The policy will take effect on December 27th.

The city’s Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi said Monday children were the group most affected currently by breakthrough Covid cases, emphasizing the need to expand protections for vulnerable youth.

The mayor is also broadening the city’s Key to NYC vaccine mandate for city businesses, indoor dining, gyms, theatres and other entertainment venues to now include children ages 5 to 11 years-old. Beginning December 14th, children in that age group will be required to show proof of at least one shot.

According to the mayor’s office about 20% of those children have gotten at least one shot of the vaccine.

De Blasio said he expects the new mandate to survive any legal challenges. A spokesperson for the mayor said the private sector mandate will apply to roughly 184,000 businesses.

Additional guidance will be issued on December 15th, de Blasio said.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago

DeBlasio is thick we all know this. every country that is highly vaxxed, have seen covid cases increased significantly. When will these guys figure out this little virus must run it’s course and will progressively weaken, if left to do so. Mass vaxxing during a pandemic as Dr Geert Vanden Bossche has said is catastrophic. But hey, I am sure a politician knows more than a world renowned scientist.

IanC
IanC
4 years ago

Please sign and share far and wide. This is important if they will take any notice of it.

Click this link to sign the petition “Open a Public Inquiry into Covid-19 Vaccine Safety”
https://petition.parliament.uk/signatures/121193159/verify?token=6hg4LmnUqkdSrNLJQoGj

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SimCS
SimCS
4 years ago

Er! Hasn’t Mayor Bill de Blasio yet understood that the vaccine doesn’t stop people being infected, or when symptomatic, transmitting it? How blind to reason can a mayor be, to deliberately ignore fact and impose on people what he KNOWS (from VAERS) will harm and kill them. Has he not yet understood that our natural immune system is by far the best defence we have against the virus, so normal vaccines and the known & safe medical treatments ARE the way to go (the covid so-called mRNA vaccines are not actually vaccines, but gene therapy). To plan and enact is called INTENT. Mayor Bill de Blasio is therefore intending to harm and kill people, which is called premeditation, but it’s of course ‘for the greater good’. As with all cults, human sacrifice is required!

annepassman
annepassman
4 years ago

So all the petty tyrants of the world, wherever they are, are now crawling out of the world’s woodwork and exercising their inner despot. Boris is just the same- caving in to the so called experts who have been wrong since forever instead of letting things take their inevitable course. Now we know them – would YOU ever vote for them again?

Beefbeefbeef
Beefbeefbeef
4 years ago

When the threat of vaccine passports raised its head I was always heartened by the fact that it would never happen in the USA due to their staunch and vocal love of “freedom” – and that the UK would likely follow suit. That’s not working out as well as I had hoped….

kate
kate
4 years ago

Neuroinvasion and Encephalitis Following Intranasal Inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 in K18-hACE2 Mice

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33477869/

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can cause neurological disease in humans, but little is known about the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the central nervous system (CNS). Herein, using K18-hACE2 mice, we demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion and encephalitis is associated with mortality in these mice. Intranasal infection of K18-hACE2 mice with 105 plaque-forming units of SARS-CoV-2 resulted in 100% mortality by day 6 after infection. The highest virus titers in the lungs were observed on day 3 and declined on days 5 and 6 after infection. By contrast, very high levels of infectious virus were uniformly detected in the brains of all the animals on days 5 and 6. 

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

A “preemptive strike”? How about criminal, totalitarian evil?

kate
kate
4 years ago

Interesting comment from Steve Kirsch’s newsletter.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/proof-covid-vaccines-cause-prion/comments#comment-3881130
We should avoid confusion around the term prion. In the past, prion disease has always been defined as that caused specifically by misfolded prion protein. The Creutzfeld-Jakob (CJD) in the chart above is hardcore human prion disease, viciously fatal with misfolded prion protein and it’s well established that the cases are about 1/million in a given population. A significant rise in CJD numbers should stick out like a hard on at the swimming pool. Huge increases in CJD cases would be like an episode of the Walking Dead maybe.
More recently, pretty much every protein misfolding disease that has the same nucleated seeding mechanism of misfolding is called a prion disease. They are called prions even though different proteins other than prion are the culprits that aggregate and misfold.
I’m not making a judgement on the definitions, just saying one should avoid confusion .Acquired forms a human prion disease are called iatrogenic and really rare. Don’t freak out just yet! During the whole mad-cow epidemic in the 90’s, people were eating tainted meat and out of millions of exposures, there have been only about 250ish cases that transmitted to humans.
I think maybe… Read more »

kate
kate
4 years ago
Reply to  kate

I think this conversation perhaps originated with the observation that the spike protein has a sequence engineered into that has a tendency to aggregate. Such regions occur naturally in many proteins without problems. These regions, such as the one that is very oddly in the spike protein, are often called “prion-like domains” If things go wrong, then they could misfold, thereby causing a “prion disease”. Dr. Fleming is all over this and has actually said he believes that the real bioweapon in all of this is the prion (he’s using the word prion by the new loose definition). He’s compiled a lot of literature on the whole covid story, and check out item #7, a reference to “prions”.
https://www.flemingmethod.com/documentation
I should also mention that it takes years for bona-fide prion diseases to manifest themselves, so if CJD is going to be tied to these Covid-19 injectable products, then it might take some time. There is a case I know of where a young woman accidentally poked herself with a CJD-contaminated needle in a French laboratory. Nothing happened until 7 years later. Then she developed neurological problems and very rapidly died a horrible death. The blip of 24 CJD cases in… Read more »

kate
kate
4 years ago
Reply to  kate

Abstract Currently, the world is struggling with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Prion-like domains are critical for virulence and the development of therapeutic targets; however, the prionlike domains in the SARS-CoV-2 proteome have not been analyzed. In this in silico study, using the PLAAC algorithm, we identified the presence of prion-like domains in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Compared with other viruses, a striking difference was observed in the distribution of prion-like domains in the spike protein, since SARS-CoV-2 was the only coronavirus with a prionlike domain found in the receptor-binding domain of the S1 region of the spike protein. The presence and unique distribution of prion-like domains in the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domains of the spike protein is particularly interesting, since although the SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV S proteins share the same host cell receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates a 10- to 20-fold higher affinity for ACE2. Finally, we identified prion-like domains in the α1 helix of the ACE2 receptor that interact with the viral receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2. Taken together, the present findings indicate that the identified PrDs in the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) and ACE2 region that… Read more »

kate
kate
4 years ago

https://tcp.art.blog/2021/07/06/covid-vax-kids-consent-a-redline-to-the-rubicon/
At the very least all hospital and community doctors should have been warned by the CMOs to consider running baseline investigations such as full blood counts, cardiac enzymes, and clotting screens with D-dimers on anyone appreciably unwell post-vaccine. Instead, there is a growing official wall of studied silence. Our patients and their doctors have been abandoned to chance. This is at the very least criminally-negligent of those responsible.
Some of these severe complications were predicted in early March 2020 by Doctors for Covid Ethics but its prescient warnings were dismissed by the European Medicines Agency.

kate
kate
4 years ago

120 Teens Hospitalized, 3 Dead Following Pfizer Vaccine Rollout for 15- to 17-Year-Olds in VietnamThe Vietnamese province of Thanh Hoa suspended a batch of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine after more than 120 teens were hospitalized after being vaccinated. According to news reports, three Vietnamese teens have died after getting the Pfizer vaccine.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/teens-hospitalized-dead-pfizer-vaccine-vietnam/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6dd51055-0938-4836-b114-8c0948bc9abf

kate
kate
4 years ago

New post from Robert Malone.
Not in the News: COVID Epidemiology
It is negligent to ignore the vaccinated as a source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures.
The data above should make decision makers question their assumptions that the vaccinated can be excluded as a source of transmission.
“It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/not-in-the-news-covid-epidemiology?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MTczMDg3NiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDUwODk4MzcsIl8iOiIrL1hzNCIsImlhdCI6MTYzODg0NDAwOCwiZXhwIjoxNjM4ODQ3NjA4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTgzMjAwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.Ip6SIOoKlAYlk4HzlXhONfhpUwKe3ZDLYVbQoQERUoE

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago

Surely, even with the now mostly corrupted legal systems this cannot be legal?

Horse
Horse
4 years ago

I must say it’s most unedifying watching the formerly free Anglosphere nations lying and crawling and creeping to get a Nuremberg Code-busting universal mandate in compared with the straight-forward, honest approach of the fascists in Austria and Germany.

I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

What i don’t understand about those who claim that it is the unvaccinated who are the cause of the rising number of variant cases is that how can they explain places like Waterford in Ireland or Gibraltar and even Israel that has some of the highest take-up of vaccinations in the world (Israel now on jab number 4 for heavens sake ) and yet they still have the highest number of variant cases in the world.

Robert Malone is absolutely right – you cannot vaccinate your way out of this pandemic and its neverending mutating viruses – its an arms race you cannot win – he explains very well here why you cannot vaccinate your way out of this and why endlessly vaccinated your population everytime a variant comes along is actually just creating more vaccine resistant variants …

https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1467401161737183233

AN other lockdown sceptic
AN other lockdown sceptic
4 years ago
Nymeria
Nymeria
4 years ago

Excellent 🙂

LonePatriot
LonePatriot
4 years ago

Ivermectin help reduce the severity of vaccine adverse reactions. If someone is suffering from a post vaccine syndrome, FLCCC clinicians and a growing network of colleagues have reported significant clinical responses to ivermectin. Because Ivermectin has 5 different mechanisms of action against coronaviruses, the medication is also effective with the different variants of the virus. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com

pre-Boomer Marine brat
pre-Boomer Marine brat
4 years ago

Any given doctor might be a Chicken Little regarding COVID. So far as I’m aware, most (if not all) are human beings.

There is, however, one cast-iron fact. If the doctors don’t go along with the hospital corporations (or the NHS) and the various medical societies and associations, they do NOT wind up like Martin Niemöller.

They wind up like Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

martinbritnell83
martinbritnell83
4 years ago

When are these dickheads going to realise that the vaccines don’t stop the spread?

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago

They already know that. The injections are designed to kill and maim.

pre-Boomer Marine brat
pre-Boomer Marine brat
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Thank you! I’m SO glad to know that I’m either dead or maimed. I hadn’t looked in the mirror lately.

I shall be eternally grateful for your enormous statement of true wisdom.

/

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago

No problem. It just so happens many leading scientists are of the same opinion.

Do some research before bleating on here.

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Or read Kate’s excellent posts on this very topic.

pre-Boomer Marine brat
pre-Boomer Marine brat
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Let me inquire, were you referring to the COVID vaccine injections as a category?

Also, yes. I’m aware of what appears to be a serious lack of QC/QA in at least certain vaccine brand’s manufacture. That however is not a DESIGN characteristic, and “design” is what you specified.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago

That’s you looking in the mirror now! What about in the medium-to-long term? Where is the safety data for those time periods? Oh, silly me, it doesn’t exist! But don’t worry, you’ll be providing it!

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

No, they are designed to make lots and lots of money. While giving a temporary immunity mostly to those who did not need it in the first place. You don’t “kill and maim” the cattle you intend to milk for its lifetime, but you might want to “kill and maim” anyone who stands in the way of your project.

Edit: actually, forget it, those opposing you will milk even more through all the upcoming fines.

kate
kate
4 years ago

Comment from Steve Kirsh’s newsletter
Craig Paardekooper has made 2 highly enlightening and disturbing. I think everyone will want to see these.
In this one, Craig has created a pivot table with US states on the horizontal axis and successive vaccine batches on the vertical axis. It turns out that most batches have fairly rare side effects, but in about 1 in 200 batches, the number of side effects is more than 1000 times higher. These side effects are visible in all states. 
https://rumble.com/vq9q2n-vaers-analysis-1-in-200-vaccine-batches-has-more-than-1000x-adverse-events-.html
We seem to be dealing with Russian roulette where the revolver has about 200 chambers. As you take more and more boosters, the chance that the weapon will fire if you or a loved one is jabbed, increases.
In this video he has made a scatter plot with time on x-axis and number of side effects from VAERS on y-axis. The rolling time corresponds well to the batches used. https://rumble.com/vq9pde-highly-disturbing-vaers-analysis-clear-patterns-in-toxic-vaccine-batches-cr.html
The analysis shows that about 80% of the batches have at most 1 or 2 negative side effects per batch. About 19.5% of the batches have side effects well above the background value, and 0.5% of the batches (1 in 200) are extremely toxic, with side effects… Read more »

kate
kate
4 years ago
Reply to  kate

https://rumble.com/vq9pde-highly-disturbing-vaers-analysis-clear-patterns-in-toxic-vaccine-batches-cr.html
Following comment;
Of course they are doing dose testing. No doubt about it. They didn’t do animals studies prior to FIH clinical trials bc they didn’t care. This was all about the tech. and saving the industry (among other goals). Further, the manufacturing process control is absent for the same reason. Nothing has been done according to normal drug devt. This experimental, investigative product is still undergoing refinement. It is the most dangerous tech in the world. No, that is not hyperbole. You can literally kill entire, or selected populations, with the right code sequences and knowing the targets. Folks need to wake up this one big data gathering exercise. When its all said and done, they will literally have selected kill shots for every cohort population.

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago

Sorry about all of these posts but I have been given a lot of information tonight. The Last one.
Slovenia’s Vaccination Mandate Ruled Unconstitutional.
https://www.total-slovenia-news.com/politics/9304-slovenia-s-vaccination-mandate-for-state-admin-staff-ruled-unconstitutional

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Only because of a technicality that it was not “based on the communicable diseases act”. Guess how this flaw will be fixed.

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago

The Dutch, are not going to restrict the unvaxxed, for now.
How can this country be ruled by a temporary body (for want of another word)because the political parties cannot agree to form a government.
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-netherlands-to-not-move-ahead-with-controversial-2g-covid-system-for-now/

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Only because they decided it’s preferable to lock down everybody instead, for the time being.

kate
kate
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Perhaps both Austria and the Netherlands realise that their police and army will not co-operate in imposing an unconstitutional apartheid state.
So they have to backtrack and impose restrictions on everyone instead, when the real plan was to target a small group.

The programme could be coming apart.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  kate

Resistance spirit alive after all? I can but hope.

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago

Different country. This shows you that this medical crisis is not about lack of hospital beds. It is the withdrawal of finances. This is another example of many countries which are do this.
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22759180/medical-organisations-protest-against-planned-cuts-in-healthcare-funds.html

I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

…

Screenshot 2021-12-06 at 19-42-30 Robert W Malone, MD ( RWMaloneMD) Twitter.png
amanuensis
amanuensis
4 years ago

Only a politician could come up with a decision (vaccinate!), see that things have got worse since the decision was made (more cases) and decide that what was wrong was that the original decision wasn’t extreme enough (more vaccination!).

They’ve already made things much worse with their decision to vaccinate the world, and they’re now doubling down.

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago

And according to this from Spain (in English) for every 10 people hospitalized, 7 people are fully vaccinated, and 3 have not been given the vaccine at all. The article then tries to twist things to read that vaccines do work
https://english.elpais.com/society/2021-11-25/the-effectiveness-of-covid-19-vaccines-illustrated-by-two-graphs.html
Lies, damned lies, and statistics

I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago
huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Candace Owens is a fine and brave young lady.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

“Ideological and psychological” world war instead of assymetric/proxy/hot war? I never would have thought of that!

jmc
jmc
4 years ago

DeBasio is about to lose his job leaving the city of New York in ruins, easily the most despised mayor since Linsey in the 1970’s. He has been catastrophic for the city. Linsey only continued the downward spiral. DeBasio destroyed a city that was safe, clean and well run when he took over.

The Mandate is just another of his fatuous acts as Mayor. It has no legal standing. In fact its both illegal and unconstitutional. He also recently appointed another complete idiot to the head position at the Health Dept. Another political “doctor” obsessed with “Heath Equity” and with zero relevant medical qualifications. So just like the people who destroyed the CDC as a reputable scientific organisation during the Obama era. Also from the NYC health dept.

FrankFisher
FrankFisher
4 years ago

Not legal, all bluff, and children too the bastards

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago

I thoroughly recommend reading The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. The first couple of chapters alone blow all the crap we have been subjected to out of the water. £2.99 on Amazon. It confirms everything we have all been saying.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

It’s funny how it isn’t on sale in WH Smiths, isn’t it?

ewloe
ewloe
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

I thoroughly recommend reading Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s wiki entry on his covid19 misinformation campaign
.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#COVID-19

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  ewloe

Referencing Wiki!? LOL!

sam s.j.
sam s.j.
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

reading now , got extra copies to give away and sent to 2 sheep too.and plandemic also good and the truth about …… by mercola and cummins

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

Spare a thought for poor Matt Hancock this Christmas

Lost his job, lost his family, marriage down the pan, lost his home, and that’s before the CSA and the divorce lawyers get their claws into him

The only thing he has been invited to is a mass vaccination event at Newmarket race course. People being euthanised on an industrial scale and they didn’t even put up any Christmas decorations

I started to feel quite sad, but then I thought fuck him

Merry Christmas Matt you huge useless turd

Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Ah, Cecil B, you always manage to make me raise a smile

“The only thing he has been invited to is a mass vaccination event at Newmarket race course.”

Nymeria
Nymeria
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

I’ll fetch my teeny tiny violin and play a tune for him on my fiddle.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Since this is a NY thread
I hope Andrew Cuomo is having a similarly terrible year.

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Has his Italian tart abandoned him now her brother got the contract?

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