All 300,000 city workers will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or adhere to weekly testing under a new mandate by mid September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.
The city will require all municipal workers to be vaccinated by Sept. 13 — the first day of public school — or be subjected to testing for the virus each week.
De Blasio announced the new mandate as COVID-19 cases are rising citywide due to the highly contagious delta variant.
“We all know the delta variant has thrown us a curveball and we are really really focused on fighting the delta variant,” he said Monday morning.
Police officers, firefighters, teachers, correction officers along with previously announced healthcare workers will be subject to the vaccine or testing mandate.
Public hospital workers and the City Department of Health staff will have an earlier deadline, Aug. 2., to get vaccinated by. Weekly testing will commence that day for such workers who are unvaccinated.
Furthermore, starting Aug. 16, city employees who work in congregate, residential settings such as homeless shelters will need to be vaccinated or tested weekly.
All other city workers, including those who work in offices, will be subject to the Sept. 13 deadline.
“We’re going to keep … adding additional measures as needed — mandates and strong measures whenever needed to fight the delta variant,” de Blasio said. “The number one way to fight it is to get vaccinated.”
He also announced that the city will be doubling down on mask use for unvaccinated city staffers starting Monday, Aug 2. All unvaccinated workers will be required to wear a mask at their workplace at all times while indoors.
“If a city government employee does not wear a mask indoors and they’re unvaccinated, there will unfortunately have to be consequences,” de Blasio said.
The mayor also urged private employers to follow suite in requiring vaccines or weekly testing.
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"All comments must be approved by the blog author" You get kicked of Twitter JQ and now block more comments than Jack ! You are FAKE NEWS....
If they were really worried about variants, the borders would be closed.
This is why I am HAPPILY NOT VACCINATED! America, the land of lies.
NOTICE: COVID tests are the most accessible, and free, test in America right now...yet antibody testing is uncommon knowledge. Why is that? Is it about profit? One of them leads to a vaccine sale more often ?
The science is whatever they feel like at any given time.
Anyone else notice how the flu and common cold just up and disappeared?
Anon #2 nailed it, the borders would be sealed in a true pandemic.
@Anon re: comments
Been getting a lot of spammy ones lately, and some of them are so irrelevant and monotonous, even some that are directly racist, that they really don't warrant the attention, particularly the ones with all caps and exclamation points.
One of them linked to a site that had a facial recognition function, and that shit is never ever getting on here.
Sheeple who are so dumb and inconsiderate that they don’t get the vaccine just because Fox News told them not to get a vaccine really deserve a humongous kick in the ass. What does it take for your dipshit ass to wake up and smell the coffee?
too many idiots in this comment section
While I am vaccinated, I feel like those who want to take the chance of getting sick and possibly dying should not have to be forced to get vaccinated. Let them go about at their own risk. Also, good luck getting some religious groups to vaccinate. But I dont think us that are vaccinated should have to punished for those who choose not to vaccinate. I got a vaccine for a reason, to not be able to wear a dumb mask anymore and your vaccines should work against all variants.
When Joe Biden closes the southern boarder to COVID illegal immigrants, more people may listen to the government.
Since when was the CDC granted dictatorial powers over the USA?
Could the Dems are so scared of the midterms that they politicize a bug for personal gain ?
The delta variant is more contagious, but less dangerous/deadly than earlier variants, which is how viruses tend to evolve. So even if you catch it, you're even less likely to have a serious outcome.
Can people get treatments of Ivermectin from Mexico...
Maybe stop moving illegal people all across the country on busses and planes etc. might help too…
Don't let teacher's unions Fauci our America ever again!
More contagious doesn’t mean more deadly. It means it’s more transmissible.
Sheeple Mask up forever. While we go dine at $1000 restaurants maskless. And say it’s a setup when we get called out on it. LOL...
Masks are back in the lower chamber of Congress. Dose this decision stem from science or from liberals who want to continue to live in fear ?
Good thing is we don't have to see Krazy Nancy's full lying face. Just her weird eyes.
I got the vaccine but I do not believe people should be forced to take something, especially a vaccine that is only approved by an emergency use authorization.
It seems like they are trying to get everyone all scared again to start up the lockdowns, so that they can have all their vote by mail, dead and illegals voting shenanigans again. This is the only way the democrats can stay in power for the 2022 midterm elections, because people are starring to see thru the bullshit.
Curious, the Bronx is seeing a rise in the Delta variant. How many trump supporters you think live in the Bronx ?
Curious, the Bronx is seeing a rise in the Delta variant. How many trump supporters you think live in the Bronx ?
Do they all have the luxury of working from home? Or do they have to commute on the subway? Are they the ones working in the bodegas, supermarkets, and hospitals? Are they doing your landscaping and mowing your lawns? Are they working on your roof or doing your housekeeping?
Not sure I understand the previous commenter's logic. Why does it matter where they work? Why aren't they vaccinated? The shit's been free and the city is begging people to get the shot.
It's "spreading " because the news is spreading it. They've been instructed to spread it.
@Curious
What’s this got to do with Trump? Is not getting the vaccine some kind of proof of your loyalty to Trump? Another dumbo gang initiation to the Trumpanzee troop?
Anonymous said...
Sheeple who are so dumb and inconsiderate that they don’t get the vaccine just because Fox News told them not to get a vaccine really deserve a humongous kick in the ass. What does it take for your dipshit ass to wake up and smell the coffee?
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
No fool-YOU are of the sheeple that have been listening to the agitprop organs since The Great Scamdemic began. Always believe the organs because they never lie and are always correct.
I'm just waiting for another generation of flipper babies like what happened with Thalidomide tragedy
Lord Fauci and Lord Gates not only follow the science, they are the science.
You need a long term study for a well and long term used drug when its acceptable to inject the entire world with a drug that has no long term tests and its side effects are oppressed. Hmmm no red flags. I guess logic, science and common sense are now conspiracy theories.
Believing big pharma wants healthy people is like believing the arms industry wants peace...
It’s called coercion, explicitly outlined in a little known document called the Nuremberg code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code
If I’m vaccinated why do I care if other people aren’t? Aren’t the unvaxxed at risk? I had Covid & a minor reaction to it, likely have some immunity to it, had a high antibody count per tests I took—& still got vaxxed—but don’t feel others need to be vaxxed for me to feel safer.
I voted for President Trump twice and will a third time !
Had COVID. Recovered fine. Antibodies checked and good. Not getting the vaccine. Should be free to live life without a mask just like millions of other naturally immune individuals.
So basically forced vaccination, which is against everyone's freedom of choice. For a vaccine that's been untested on long term effects, and which are already showing signs of a relative high degree of short term effects (trombose for example). What a great day for freedom...
Thank you President Biden!
The next time I see someone wearing a mask, I'm going to tell them to go get vaccinated.
@“ If I’m vaccinated why do I care if other people aren’t?”
What’s this got to do withTrump? Are you another. Minion trying to prove your loyalty to your lord and master?
For a vaccine that's been untested on long term effects
The government approved Salk's polio vaccine without waiting for "long term effects" - how many years should they wait? How many people should die? 628,492 deaths in the US as of today.
My Body My Choice !
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE THE TWELFTH BOOSTER SHOT!”
-a man wearing a space suit in a CostCo in 2024
"Real" and "True" are irrelevant, all that matters is "Agenda".
Fauci repeats what the media feeds him under the guise of "questions". The media are fed their talking points by the admin and DNC. It's not even hard to notice this folks. It's painfully obvious and childish and nobody is willing to point it out.
New enemies of the state, “The unvaccinated” !
Biden literally said you can't get COVID if you've been vaccinated....
"How many people should die?"
From potentially harmful thing like... busses and cars, cigarettes, alcohol, hairspray, forks, outlets, slippery surfaces...
@“ I'm just waiting for another generation of flipper babies like what happened with Thalidomide tragedy”
Thank you for your honesty Flipper.
Mr. Falsey said...
“We’re not talking about the Communist Party,” Fauci told NewsNation Wednesday night. “We’re not talking about the military. We’re talking about scientists that we’ve had relationships with for years.”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/03/fauci-e...
A lab rat asks another lab rat if he's gotten the Covid vaccine. "No,"
he said, "I'm waiting for the human experiment to be completed."
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