NYC Mayor de Blasio announces a mandate for all city employees to be vaccinated or tested weekly starting Sept. 13th:

“September is when the rubber hits the road.”
The mandate includes New York City municipal workers, aka cops, firefighters and teachers.
nydailynews.com/news/politics/…
Savannah Mayor Van Johnson (D-GA) announces the reinstatement of a mask mandate regardless of vaccination status “effective immediately.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announces all state employees and health care workers must be vaccinated or tested weekly.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA): “You don’t have a choice to go out and drink and drive and put everybody else’s lives at risk. That’s the equivalent of this moment with the deadliness and efficiency of the Delta virus.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA): “We have the one thing the rest of the world’s desperate for and that’s ubiquity and abundance and access of a life saving drug. We could end this pandemic … it’s a question of choice.”

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