True story: bought tix to an outside NYC Parks event two weeks ago. Showed up w/ kids, and saw everyone was wearing masks outside, distanced, etc. So we got in line, prepared to ask if masks were optional. Instead they demanded our #VaxxPass.
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So, not only were they making everyone wear masks, outside, distanced, they were also demanding proof of shots. We asked why, and the young security officer was super shitty to us, and called his supervisor.
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It's then we noticed that the entire staff were wearing tight-fitting N95s, outside, in the high heat. They were visibly struggling to breathe in the heat, hard to speak, the masks billowing in/out, and sucking to their faces with each breath.
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Surprisingly, the supervisor was extremely polite. He realized we weren't causing trouble, so he pulled us aside and told us this: [sic]
"Mayor DiBlassio held a conference call with all city agencies, and told us all that this was a zero tolerance policy."
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"Mayor DiBlassio held a conference call with all city agencies, and told us all that this was a zero tolerance policy."
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"DiBlassio emphasized heavy fines, and announced he was 'deputizing' each and every city bureaucrat & contractor to enforce these mandates. Whether they're on the job or not. Which means there are thousands of city workers out there, looking for infractions to report."
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"We don't agree with this, we hate it, our customers hate it, but we have no choice. Just one fine will hurt us a lot. We live in perpetual fear of some bureaucrat coming by, and discovering some kind of violation, reporting us behind the scenes, and we get a crippling fine."
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"I will gladly refund your money, and I'm so sorry you came all this way. You're not the first family we've turned away. And if we could do something different we would. But our hands are tied."
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That's right. DiBlassio has enlisted tens of thousands of city workers to be his "enforcers": out on their private time, eating in restaurants, going to parks, whatever. All of them on the lookout for lucrative 'violations' for the city. Team effort, etc.
This. Is. Insane.
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This. Is. Insane.
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I wish I had asked him if there was a "bounty" or a bonus for bureaucrats filing these reports, because that wouldn't surprise me either.
But this "white collar cop" business is downright evil. Deputizing bureaucrats to enforce "rules" (not laws, mind you) is just not right.
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But this "white collar cop" business is downright evil. Deputizing bureaucrats to enforce "rules" (not laws, mind you) is just not right.
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Our country is *not* designed to work that way. Mayors, Governors or DOH's are not allowed to issue dictates, punishable by fines, or force. Emergency or not. This is not how things work.
These things are NOT laws. And there are very specific procedures we use to make laws.
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These things are NOT laws. And there are very specific procedures we use to make laws.
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The fact that so much of what is being done to us, our kids and our society is being done by *bureaucratic dictate* instead of via legal legislative process, is a big big problem.
If we don't fix this, and quick, things are going to get much much worse.
PS, how's #Chevron?
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If we don't fix this, and quick, things are going to get much much worse.
PS, how's #Chevron?
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