A major business group on Monday cast doubt on New York City’s newly announced COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private workers, noting that a similar measure attempted by President Joe Biden’s administration was blocked by a federal court.
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“Inconsistent policies at the federal, state, and city levels are not helpful and it is unclear who will enforce a mayoral mandate, and whether it is even legal,” Kathryn Wylde, head of the Partnership for New York City, told news outlets in a statement.
“President Biden’s vaccine mandate on employers with over 100 employees is currently held up by litigation and it is hard to imagine that the mayor can do what the president is being challenged to accomplish,” she added.
Earlier Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said private workers must get vaccinated by Dec. 27 or face termination.
He said a major impetus behind the move is the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.
Eight cases have been detected in the entire state so far, though some experts believe the variant could spread quickly.
Federal courts have blocked many of the Biden administration’s mandates, including one that sought to force every employer with 100 or more workers to require proof of vaccination or testing. An appeals court panel said last month the business mandate raised “grave statutory and constitutional issues” and later called it “staggeringly overbroad.”
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The New York City mandate did not appear to have a testing opt-out. The only stated exceptions so far are for employees who work from home and for businesses that have zero employees apart from the owner. Officials promised to release more details next week.
Wylde said businesses weren’t consulted before the mandate was announced, an allegation challenged by the mayor, who leaves office next month after term limits prevented him from running for another four years.
“There was a lot of dialogue with the business community in advance,” the Democrat said.
A host of companies in New York City, including those providing child care and private schools, were already mandated to require vaccination.
“We’ve done it with a big swath of our business community already, and I think this next step is going to be something really the vast majority of businesses are going to embrace and work with us to get done,” de Blasio said.
The new order will affect roughly 184,000 businesses, according to Dr. Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner.
New York’s Mayor-elect Eric Adams has not commented on the looming mandate. His campaign did not return requests for comment.
De Blasio said he gave Adams an update last week on what his administration is doing.
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“I’ll let him speak for himself about what he thinks about each approach, but he has been tremendously clear that he respects the health care professionals and their guidance,” he said.
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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