From LifeSiteNews.com…
Reports emerged Wednesday that New York City was going to make a slight but significant change to its COVID vaccine mandate for employers. Sure enough, Mayor Eric Adams plans to announce Thursday a special exemption for the city’s unvaccinated “athletes and performers.”
That means Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving can actually play in home games — just in time for the NBA playoffs — and New York Yankees star Aaron Judge (as well as some of his teammates and Mets counterparts) will be spared a forced absence from the playing field as well.
But this concession, while a welcome sight for them and their fans, is a spectacular slap in the face for the city’s unvaccinated that only increases the absurdity of the mandate to a new degree.
There’s hardly a doubt that thousands of unvaccinated New Yorkers lost their jobs earlier this year because of the employer mandate, which applies to both the public and private sectors. The Big Apple fired over 1,400 city employees in February alone, with the jobs of nearly 10,000 more without an approved religious or medical exemption also hanging in the balance at that time.
Given the estimated 4.7 million people employed within New York’s city limits — 325,000 of whom are city employees — and a citywide vaccination rate of 87% among adults, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have been affected by the employer mandate.
