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Bill de Blasio’s New Vaccine Mandate is the Final Nail in the Coffin of this Bloviating Buffoon

by Toby Young
7 December 2021 7:00 PM

I’ve written a comment piece for Mail+ taking to talk Bill de Blasio, the Mayor of New York, for announcing that private employers would have to enforce a ‘no jab, no job’ policy. This goes beyond almost anywhere else in the United States – and, indeed, the rest of the world – where vaccine mandates are limited to the public sector and health care. Here is an extract:

Not only is this a grotesque interference in the freedom of association of private companies, but it will force New York City’s three-and-a-half million private sector employees to get vaccinated if they want to keep their jobs. Some will already be double-jabbed, but those who aren’t have been told they need to either work from home or have at least one dose by December 27th.

Why should the vaccine hesitant be strong-armed into injecting a substance into their bodies against their will?

The left-wing mayor justified this draconian policy by appealing to… you guessed it, the new variant.

“Omicron is here, and it looks like it’s very transmissible,” he said in an interview on MSNBC.

“The timing is horrible with the winter months [looming].”

But everything we know about Omicron so far indicates it is milder than previous variants of COVID-19, resulting in fewer hospitalisations.

Even if Omicron has a nasty surprise in store, forcing people to get jabbed won’t make much difference since cutting transmission is so far unproven for it. Indeed, they aren’t great at preventing people catching the old variant – they reduce the risk of infection from Delta, but don’t come close to eliminating it. So why deploy them as your main weapon against Omicron?

If Mayor De Blasio was concerned about New York City’s hospitals being overwhelmed in December, January and February, he would offer to re-employ those healthcare workers who’ve been fired because they refuse to be double-jabbed.

As in England, labour shortages are contributing to winter pressure on New York’s health system – and not just because hospitals are short-staffed. Elderly patients who are well enough to be discharged have to remain in their beds because there aren’t enough care-home employees to look after them. This is a crisis of Bill de Blasio’s own making.

Worth reading in full.

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WorriedCitizen
WorriedCitizen
3 years ago

An act of pure desperation on his behalf; keep’um coming’ boys.

Last edited 3 years ago by WorriedCitizen
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Samurai Jack
Samurai Jack
3 years ago

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/602171

Public enquiry into vaccine safety

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  Samurai Jack

Signed, and shared.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago
Reply to  Samurai Jack

Done

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Stephanos
Stephanos
3 years ago
Reply to  Samurai Jack

Signed

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  Samurai Jack

Done for all the good it’ll do.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Samurai Jack

Me too. But I doubt this will result in anything but a boilerplate response from government if it makes it past 10,000 and a rerun of the ‘debate’ about vaccinating children in case it goes past 100,000.

🙁

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
3 years ago
Reply to  Samurai Jack

Not that petitions seem to make any difference. The responses are all masterpieces of civil service double speak written by people who seem to think that regurgitating the detail of the issue or policy being complained about in some way addresses the issue.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
3 years ago

There won’t be enough money to pay the lawsuits.

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago

It’s not looking good for any of them…
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-12-07/no-10-staff-joke-in-leaked-recording-about-christmas-party-they-later-denied

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

One person who is sticking it to Number 10 over the Christmas party story is Andrew Neil. He retweeted Darren Grimes’s message saying that “Whoever leaked that video showing Downing Street staff laughing and joking about their Christmas party has just detonated a political bomb.” The story has clearly developed “legs” and it is quite possible that Johnson will fall from office over it.

Meanwhile Boris Johnson’s one time friend Jennifer Arcuri seems to be sticking it to Andrew Neil, making accusations against him which he claims are libellous and for which he has begun legal action against her. Mr Neil’s words include these: “I never met Epstein or frequented any of his properties.”

The appearance of Neil’s name in Ghislaine Maxwell’s “black book” is old news, and although he may perhaps have been one of Maxwell’s targets that would NOT show that he ever boarded the “Lolita Express”, nor that he ever committed a sexual offence of any kind.

But that does not mean we should not pay close attention to his words. Please note in particular his use of the verb “frequent”. To “frequent” means to go to a place often. He chooses to say “frequented” rather than “visited”. “I never frequented” is different from “I never visited”.

Personally I think somebody put Arcuri up to this – perhaps Darius Guppy’s pal who is now prime minister and who has a certain history…

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Star
Star
3 years ago
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVV6r_kmTlU

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jmc
jmc
3 years ago

Well to answer your question DeBlasio is a typical Gentry Democrat who came from a well to do background and has never had a real job in his life. He is a life long politician of some sort or other who has always had his snout in the public trough. Directly or indirectly. Think of him as a younger and even stupider version of Bernie Sanders. Another life long never had a real job political parasite.

The way NYC party machine politics works is that as long as he pays off organized labor the usual way they deliver the votes. Same goes for the “community organisations”. All defacto kickbacks as he finances their pet projects for services rendered. From the city budget. But people like deBasio have utter contempt for ordinary people. Of whatever race.

Despite his pretensions and photo ops his natural habit is among the very rich, very white Upper West Side “progressives” who ooze smug supercilious condescension from every pore. And despite their pretension to intelligence and culture are mostly shallow, philistine, ill informed and not terribly bright who will never utter an original thought.

The irony here is that winning margin of voters who elected him both times are the very people who moved to NYC precisely because it had been made safe and clean by previous mayors like Giuliani. Who made it safe by enforcing quality of life laws and locking up criminals. But it seems this policy upset the blow ins from the suburbs who though it was “not fair” to lock up criminals. Well they can now see how well that feel good virtue signalling political posturing worked out as NYC return to the crime ridden hell hole it was during the 1970’s and 1980’s.

What funny is that the idiots who voted DeBlasio into office are too young and too stupid to realize just how bad it is going to get. To those who remember the 1970’s and 1980’s we know what’s next. But we still have the street smarts learned back then to survive. But the young DeBlasio voters are going to be easy picking for the muggers, robbers. And worse. As has already started.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago
Reply to  jmc

When I read the headline I thought “What a shame Guiliano cleaned up New York”. Blasio’s head would be on a pole by the end of the week or there’d be a horses head in his bed.

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jmc
jmc
3 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

I dunno. Considering what a mess NYC was during the Dinkins and Koch era and Koch especially was not held responsible by the electorate for what was happening I would not hold out much hope.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Once again, if masks worked why sack medical and care staff. They’ve worn them until now. All about jab coercion

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

Hold out until year end. His successor already indicated he’d have none of this sh*te.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago

There is this worldwide kind of insanity mixed with blindness and stupidity. An article in The Telegraph this morning, for example, stated that there are 30% unvaccinated in hospitals and they are choking the system, stopping other people, presumably needier, to wait for treatment. Why no mention of the 70%, the vast majority, who are jabbed not vaccinated? Now we see this from New York, another in a long of absurd decisions.
I read a book once and it was about the fall of societies. It said that there comes a technological point where the brain can’t cope and society starts to fall apart. In every case, he mentioned, there was a form of madness. Leaders made stupid decisions that even they didn’t understand. We are, indeed, at the end of society as we knew it.

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago

If you cant see how this whole thing is a total scam by now……its so obviously a scam. Take off the Covid glasses. There is no pandemic or virus. There is simply a bunch of creative con artists defrauding you and your family out of your dignity and freedom. Stop believing their lies about variants and transmissibility and all the rest of it. This is clearly theater – its clearly bullshit. Open your eyes and you will see – there is NO VIRUS – there is only a scam about a virus.

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paul smith
paul smith
3 years ago
Reply to  ComeTheRevolution

A power-play, and a desperate one. at that.

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago

So the private sector is not so private after all. This outrageous power grab seems quite desperate but that doesn’t mean it won’t be copied by other authoritarian zealots.

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mishmash
mishmash
3 years ago

Boris’ press secretary laughing at us.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

German Man Kills His Entire Family In Murder-Suicide Motivated By Vaccine Passport Penalties

The mental toll from stress induced by countries’ pandemic response has arrived at a point where that itself may outweigh the risk that COVID-19 possesses. Nowhere is this more apparent than in sharp increases in violent crimes worldwide.

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago

I literally said I was making this joke (hire my family for a nice Christmas dinner, I mean work meeting) in an article a couple of days ago here:

‘New leaked video shows Downing Street staff JOKING about their Christmas party and branding it a ‘business meeting’ to dodge rules as Met Police continue to investigate and Starmer tells Boris to ‘come clean and apologise’ ‘
Nice to see MPs give the rules as much credence as I do…

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago

“Why should the vaccine hesitant be strong-armed into injecting a substance into their bodies against their will?”
Stop with this “vaccine hesitant” nonsense! Any adult in the western world who hasn’t been “covid vaccinated” yet is not “hesitant”. They are downright against being injected with the experimental shit, at least until there are some long-term data about its safety and effectiveness (- what is emerging is looking increasingly concerning). Let’s not play along with the fake MSM narrative. It does us no favours, makes us out to be nervous nellies who just need some reassurance and (re)education.

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LovelyGirl
LovelyGirl
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Here here!

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Just Stop it Now
Just Stop it Now
3 years ago
Reply to  LovelyGirl

Where where?

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sophie123
sophie123
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

I tell people I’m not hesitant. I’ve just seen the clinical data. Not the press release, but the actual data. And they are not remotely compelling on the only score that matters (all cause mortality).

Plus I would question the trial drop outs, especially in the context of the yellow card/eudravigilance/VAERS data. None of it looks encouraging.

You can call it hesitant. I call it understanding risk and reward.

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Dr Y
Dr Y
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

100% this.
I’m not hesitant… I’m not having it.
I’ve been offered it via work since the start of January. I knew I had antibodies by this point so I wasn’t interested.
The more data that has come out, the more I’m adamant I neither need nor want it.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Dr Y

I too have been repeatedly “offered” the so-called vaccine by my employer (nhs) since January. I have ignored all their offers. I don’t think I have ever had covid, but as I’ve never tested myself I wouldn’t know! I don’t care either way. I have a good immune system that’s got me this far in life, and has a much better track record than the so-called vaccines! Why on earth would I want to wreck that?

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Lilacblue
Lilacblue
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Yes!!! I am not hesitant, I have done a great deal of research and come to an informed decision. If I felt it was in my best interest, I would take a vaccine of my choice. However we do not have that choice in the uk.
I am tired of reading articles that question why some dismiss the vac, it has to be lack of opportunity, not reaching the right communities, no paid time off work, evil Web information blah blah. Never does it actually mention a decision made by individual is a valid option.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Lilacblue

That’s because the government, so-called public health bodies and MSM are scared to. I think they are genuinely fearful of us informed “covid vaccine” rejectors. That’s why they feel the need to shut us down, blackmail us, discredit us. We risk showing them up for what they truly are, and spoiling their party. Keep up the resistance, comrades.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Part of the reason the MSM describes us as “vaccine hesitant” is because we know the data shows it’s not a vaccine.

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pre-Boomer Marine brat
pre-Boomer Marine brat
3 years ago

Keep in mind that NYC’s cultural attitude is somewhat unique in the USA.

Anything west of the Hudson and north of Westchester County is a nose-picking nether-land of dirt stupidity. That which other Americans call fly-over country simply doesn’t exist.

The Palm Beach area of Florida is known of only because it’s where old farts go to die. (One might say, it’s out in the Styx, instead of the sticks.)

“The City” is a world unto itself.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

Early Covid symptoms are no different to minor side effects from vaccines and people who develop a headache or fever after their jab should get tested, experts say

  • Study found early Covid symptoms like headaches and a fever could be mistake for a vaccine side-effect
  • Scientists say recently jabbed could be spreading the virus, thinking their symptom was from the vaccine
  • Researchers have urged jabbed to not make assumptions and get a Covid test to help keep other people safe
  • Study was based on data submitted by 362,770 people who got their jab in from December to May last year
  • Findings comes as cases and vaccine drive are on the rise in UK, over fears of the impact of Omicron variant

It just gets more blatant every day.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

You get jabbed to escape Covid.
You feel bad.
It isn’t the jab, it’s Covid.
So what was the benefit of getting the soddin’ jab?
FFFFFFFFFFFS.

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LovelyGirl
LovelyGirl
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Right. They are so unbelievably safe and effective…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  LovelyGirl

100% safe. Apparently…

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sophie123
sophie123
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Except I didn’t even get a fever with the ‘Rona.

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

Joe Rogan said his doctor, Pierre Kory, is part of a group that has used Ivermectin to quietly treat 200 Members of U.S. Congress for COVID19. Dr Simone Gold, from America’s Frontline Doctors, told that she has prescribed treatments for Congress. She still believes in her oath, but she is vocal saying she has been contacted by many in DC. Can you believe these demons? Healing for them are OK but not for us. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

Bill rushes in where OSHA failed to tread.

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The old bat
The old bat
3 years ago

Sorry, a bit off topic, but, if this Downing Street party story sticks it might not only finish off Boris, but perhaps the scales may fall from the eyes of at least some dedicated ‘believers’ and they will realise they are being taken for a ride. First Hancock, now this (and probably a few others). It’s so much in the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ ball park, like all the private jets used to get to Cop26.These people are just a waste of space.
Very good point made by another poster, btw, that if masks are so brilliant, why isn’t it sufficient to ask that, if you are unvaccinated, please wear a mask, but otherwise carry on as normal. According to mask lovers, wearing a mask protects you 100% after all – well, they seem to rely on them to keep them free of covid anyway.

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Horse
Horse
3 years ago

There is a good reason why we’re starting to hear chatter from the elite about scrapping the Nuremberg Code. That is because these monstrous, tyrannical bastards are already starting to feel the hemp rope around their necks.

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Jez Hewitt
Jez Hewitt
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

The greedy, nefarious, evil fools can scrap all the rules and laws in Christendom and it won’t make a scrap of difference. They’ll pay with their lives once this is over. I’m resigned to make this happen – it’s inevitable.

My life for a crack at freedom for my kids? Bring it the fuck on, I’m tired of this horseshit.

I’ve made my peace. Best they make theirs.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

Former NSW Police Sergeant Stephen Kelly Whistleblower conspiracy theorist

⁣Stephen Kelly is a 28 year police veteran who has spent the majority of his career in the Coronial Law Unit assisting the Coroner with inquests. He has an excellent understanding of medical practice and the law.

Must just be a giant cock-up.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Just listened to this and was so impressed with his well considered speech, I was about to post it but you beat me to it! A must watch/listen.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/KsgxtCvI1shh/

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Yep, I posted it before I had finished listening, his presentation & message was excellent & without being controversial.

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Star
Star
3 years ago

On-topic (not mentioned in the news round-up, but a current news item):

Readers of this site will recall the sad deaths of two young lads, Harry Towers and Mohammed Habib, pupils at St John Fisher Catholic College in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. The headmaster of the said school had the effrontery to ask people not to speculate to each other about what the causes of their deaths may have been. According to one source, Harry suffered a fatal brain tumour while Habib died of a heart attack – two conditions that have both been reported as effects of anti-SARSCoV2 “vaccination”. There appears to have been a news blackout for several weeks.

Well yesterday a third youngster died in the same part of the world, not in Newcastle-under-Lyme itself but in nearby Stoke-on-Trent where he was “found critically ill in the street”. He has not been named. Staffordshire Police said they would not comment but they did comment by saying the death was “non-suspicious” and “sudden”.

According to a commenter on the above-linked page, the young lad died of an epileptic fit. Although the authorities recommend “vaccination” for those who suffer from epilepsy, swearing blind – on their mothers’ lives, on all that is holy, and on every sacred backhander that they ever received from Big Pharma – that it’s as safe as houses, the Epilepsy Foundation in the USA has noted that fever, which is a common effect of anti-SARSCoV2 “vaccination”, may “temporarily” lower seizure thresholds. (Source.) Even if the lowering of the threshold is “temporary”, that isn’t much consolation if while it is lowered you suffer a seizure that you otherwise wouldn’t have suffered and it kills you.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Ah yes, but what do pawns matter in this great game!?

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msamson
msamson
3 years ago

We are missing a major point here. De Blasio, Biden, Johnson are not kings, and they don’t own our bodies and our lives. They have no right or authority to make us wear rags on our face or bodies, lock us in our homes, take away our livelihoods, and all the other totalitarian measures they are trying to enforce on us under the deception of “protecting our lives.” They can’t make up laws — that’s what Congress, Parliament and state legislatures are for. Their measures go against the constitution. When challenged to do these dictatorial measures, DO NOT COMPLY.

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Sao
Sao
3 years ago

“ The issue we’re talking about here is about people’s personal right to choose.”
This is exactly right. Infectious diseases don’t affect other people. Making decisions that increase your chance to catch and spread disease is a personal choice.
If sober driving is safe, then why do you care that I make the personal choice to drink and drive? Sober drivers get into accidents all of the time.

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