COVID Update: My remarks this morning in New York at mayoral press conference on vaccine mandates. 1/
“The proof is in Halloween.
If you walked around city yesterday you saw families in costume, restaurants filled, stores open, a parade like you only find in NY, adults in elaborate costumes (at least I think they were costumes). 2/
If you walked around city yesterday you saw families in costume, restaurants filled, stores open, a parade like you only find in NY, adults in elaborate costumes (at least I think they were costumes). 2/
What I saw was New York City. A city able to return to normal, to life, to joy— secure in their belief that they were protected from the virus because whenever they entered somewhere people were vaccinated. The word that kept coming to mind was: freedom. 3/
I am suspicious of the idea that asking people to be vaccinated and show our vaccination status is an infringement on our freedom. We’ve seen what that freedom looks like. It looks like fear. It looks like closed stores. 4/
It sounds like sirens wailing. And ambulances rushing to our hospitals. It looks like our first responders at risk every time they need to perform CPR or enter an apartment. Is that freedom? 5/
The smartest countries around the globe and the smartest big cities are recognizing that the key to their vibrancy is simple: giving people the freedom to feel safe in their environment. Asking a little of something for the benefit of everyone. 6/
Why do we need requirements?
This example may help. I talked to a city worker. He told me he only got vaccinated because his employer required it. When asked why he hadn’t he said ‘I don’t like shots. Why would anyone got a shot unless they had to?’ 7/
This example may help. I talked to a city worker. He told me he only got vaccinated because his employer required it. When asked why he hadn’t he said ‘I don’t like shots. Why would anyone got a shot unless they had to?’ 7/
It is tempting to focus on hold outs. In our country, it’s part of who we are as a great nation that we can have active disagreement. But focusing solely on the hold outs misses out on the one over arching important point: that no one of us is more important than all of us. 8/
That asking for small contributions from everyone for the benefit of everyone is what once has made us a great nation.” /end
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