New York City employers will have to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their workers under new rules announced Monday by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The vaccine mandate for private businesses will take effect Dec. 27 and is aimed at preventing a spike in COVID-19 infections during the holiday season and the colder months, the Democratic mayor said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“We in New York City have decided to use a preemptive strike to really do something bold to stop the further growth of COVID and the dangers it’s causing to all of us,” de Blasio said. “All private-sector employers in New York City will be covered by this vaccine mandate as of Dec. 27.”
Vaccinations are already required for hospital and nursing home workers and city employees including teachers, police officers and firefighters. A vaccination mandate for employees of private and religious schools was announced last week.
The city was moving to impose the mandate on private sector businesses even as federal courts have temporarily blocked an attempt by President Joe Biden to do the same nationally for larger companies.
De Blasio said he expects the new mandate to survive any legal challenges.
Current New York City COVID-19 rules also include at least one vaccine dose for indoor restaurant dining, entertainment venues and fitness centers. Under new mandates for indoor dining, entertainment and gyms, two shots will be required for people over 12. One shot will be required for children aged 5 to 11, who are not covered by the current mandate, de Blasio said.
For all those that have the right the their opinion and don’t find the vaccine safe, will quite and there will really be no workers in New York!
Some people still really believe that it’s the unvaccinated who are responsible for spreading the virus…
Judgement day is gonna come at you hard.
Sending you thoughts and prayers!
You are no saint so You are not spared from it either my friend.
But at least when Gd asks me, ‘did you vaccinate yourself and save the lives of the people around you?’ i’ll be able to say yes.
You, on the other hand, will have to explain your selfish behavior.
Those vaccinated can still spread covid to others it has been shown. Those coming down with the new variant in israel are vaccinated. Those with 3 shots were carrying the 1st cases of the variant. A 3x vaccinated doctor spread it to another 3x vaccinated doctor. So being vaccinated doesnt protect others
Vaccinated people still spread the virus.
Long before the Wuhun virus, what did you do to stop Loshon Hara, which the Chofetz Chiam kills 3 people (the spreader, the listener, and the one spoken against.).
Note: He does not say “it’s like killing 3 people.” He says it IS, killing 3 people.
So stopping it, saves lives.
What have you done to stop it, since you are so concerned abour saving lives?
But I dont think your good at other things that according to G-d is pretty selfish. Me? I save lives in others ways which you might not be good at all in and will have to explain to G-d why you didn’t do what you could have done and thus have effected people’s lives. Effecting people lives is not just by a getting a vaccine, sometimes emotionally effecting someone is even worse because it’s like you’ve killed them according the Torah law which G-d gave.
If you’re vaxxed, you’re protected, right? Why do you care if someone else is vaxxed?
This is about stripping us of our free choice. I am vaccinated and I believe in it, but I am furious at what this clown is doing to our City. We need to unite and fight this! If this is allowed to pass, this is just the beginning. We will be stripped of all our freedom and choices.
Have you been following the news on abortion?
So it’s fine to tell a woman what to do with her body but it’s not okay to demand that people get vaccinated?
The hypocrisy on the right is unbelievable.
Are you actually comparing killing an unborn child to getting a brand new unstudied vaccination?
Are you comparing killing a human being to a vaccine that is available for anybody who wants it?
Abortion is not “my body”, so not “my choice”. Vaccines are “my body” and therefore “my choice”.
Abortion is against halacha.
A fetus is not a part of a womans body. It is a seperate person that is temporarily sheltered and nurtured by the womans body until it is born, at which time, the mother will hopefully continue to shelter and nurture it.
Liberals say it’s fine to murder their unborn babies, and government should stay out of it, but they can step in, to destroy business and force people out of work, and force them to wear masks and get untested vaccines.
The hypocrisy is on the left, and it’s so typical of leftists.
BUT very anti vaccine mandate. Not sure if I had covid so I felt better taking the vaccine. Considering it stops severity not spread it must be a personal decision. Mandates will ruin this city
That is a meaningless allegation heard all the time! Many unvaxxed have had only mild cases while many vaxxed have had severe life-and-death cases. It is impossible to know how a mild case in a vaxxed person “would have been” if they had not been vaxxed. Just like it is impossible to know the same about an unvaxxed person’s case of COVID.
There are SO many other factors: different strains at different times; use of remedies; etc.
Don’t fall for that unprovable-but-popular argument!
The shot doesn’t stop transmission or infection of coronavirus, only the “severity of symptoms” – what exactly do you believe in? This sounds more like a religion than a medical discussion.
It’s sad that this has to be mandated and people can’t do the kind thing on their own, but conservatives have never cared about doing what’s kind.
To express such an opinion
But I don’t watch the lies on Fox.
Try actual journalism and I promise you may learn some truth.
You can’t name even one.
I don’t watch the lies of the Communist News Network, which told such lies as “Trump supports White Supremacists”
And “Undocumented workers, are all good people” when the truth is many of them beling to MS-13, the Mexican Mafia or other violent criminal gangs.
You are the one who sounds rude!
People who have done research and care for their bodies don’t want the vaccine and you are allowed to get it, and they are allowed freedom of choice and not get it!!
Let me take a guess what your beliefs are regarding abortion in this country.
Some people won’t realize you’re trolling so dont post this type of stuff
I’m just making sure that the liberal, left leaning Chabad Jews have a voice on here too.
Not all of us are living in the dark ages.
Even those who promote the vaccine no longer claim that it prevents the spread, since that’s so obviously been shown to be untrue. But you care more about putting down your fellow Jews – if you even are a Jew – than about what’s “kind.”
Is an oxymoron.
Liberals aren’t kind. They care nothing about unborn human babies, while they fawn all over animals and try to outlaw fur and kaporos, and call animals, their “children”.
Kids are too young to have it without any trials … or and side effects are major and might be not seen too much because not much get vaccinated at age 5…. It’s just not right not right … kids survived covid without any symptoms or complications and now they are at risk?
Why they don’t want to share ingredients inside ? Why it’s a big secret?
On his way out ….Clearly he wants to use this to further his political career
The Fuhrer is at it again
Some last parting gifts before he goes to the communist utopia in Cuba
Holocaust comparisons like this are anti-Semitic.
Please stop spreading antisemitism.
Mandates, discrimination, censorship, and segregation preceded the roundups and death camps. The analogy is appropriate!
Have you studied history? Ever?
When a Jew compares vaccine mandates to the Holocaust, there is little to no hope left in this world.
he is a rabid anti-Semite
For years people called Trump Hitler and his supporters – including a substantial part of Jewish Crown Heights – Nazis, yet somehow you never had a problem with that “spreading anti-Semitism.” Give us a break; it’s patently obvious that what you’re concerned about is anti-Democratism.
Trump and his supporters are actual neo-Nazis. That’s not just a cute nickname for you racists, it’s a fact.
Anti-democracy can lead to fascism, study some history and open a book and maybe you’ll learn something.
There are videos, that can be found by searching on Duck Duck Go, that show Trump in his own words denouncing White Supremacists, over and over again.
It’s liberals like violent murderous mobster Joe Kennedy, and his political descendents, that are the neo nazis.
Most White Supremacists hate Trump, and claim he is controlled by the Jews.
Nazis and other White Supremacists, don’t move the US Embassy, to it’s rightful place, in Jerusalem.
You are aware that actual nazis support trump and his policies, right?
Anti-democracy is a dangerous step on the path to fascism, please open a book and learn some history.
The only KKK endorsement in the last election was for Biden. And not surprising, since they’ve been a Democrat group since their inception.
Attention lefties <3
They are against such things only when they are used against liberals.
Conservatives are going crazy about the right to choose whether or not you want to get vaccinated, “freedom of choice” over your own body, but then they’re simultaneously telling women that they have no right to choose what happens to their own bodies.
There. Is. No. Difference.
If you want the freedom of choice, do you really not understand how much more so that should apply to abortion?!
My body, my choice.
If you don’t have to get the vaccine then I don’t have to carry a fetus.
Free and safe abortions for all women!!
There are a few extremely rare circumstances where a Rov would give a heter ..but WHY is this your talking point as a frum person?
Why on earth should it apply “all the more so” to abortion? That’s a procedure that is designed to kill.
Getting an abortion does not cause any harm to any living, breathing human being.
Not getting vaccinated puts those around you at risk of getting Covid.
Therefore, “all the more so.”
Can you at least try to make sense?
No one is mandating abortions. Just like no one is withholding your right to get a covid clotshot if you wish. Stop conflating apples and oranges.
I’m pro choice.
Let me help you make sense of this.
Conservatives are not giving women the right to choose what to do with their bodies, but conservatives are giving people the right to choose whether they want to get vaccinated or not.
Conservatives are telling women that they have no autonomy over their own bodies, but conservatives are also telling people they have a right to refuse to wear a mask and get vaccinated.
This is called hypocrisy at its finest.
Would you agree it’s unethical to mandate abortion under threat of job loss, education? That would match mandating the vaccine.
The comments here are unbelievable. I don’t care whether you believe in the vaccine or don’t believe in it, the fact that he’s FORCING people to take it is outrageous. Where this ‘free’ america?what are all the New York schools and businesses going to do? Is he gonna find teachers and workers for all these places?? This forcing of all schools and business (EVEN PRIVATE ONES!!) is absolutely crazy and I don’t understand how people are letting this go by.
I’m not sure how all the NY schools are going to be able to handle this. He’s gonna be the cause of schools needing to shut down cuz theyre not gonna have enough teachers. Hashem yerachem!
What if everyone did the right thing and got vaccinated?
Is “not the right thing” for everyone. Nor “safe” . Therapeutics are banned to push this vaccine. “Scientists (I’m a science teacher) even say vaccine doesn’t stop spread only severity and therefore should NOT be mandated
How’s that the right thing
Obviously you need to do some research and discover how many people are injured from that vaccine and there is no one being held accountable! Wake up!
Why is that the right thing?
Would be nice if the ruler of NYC would take such a strong stance on crime, as I got a better chance of being stabbed or being beaten severely or pushed in front of the subway train way more than I do getting seriously ill from this virus that’s going around… wonder what edict he is going to issue next ??
When will it end ??
I am petrified to go on the train. I have already had an unpleasant incident.
He will be out of office very soon. He will take his edicts with him
But not so fast. ERIC ADAMS IS MUCH WORSE HASHEM YISHMOR
Hope for the best. Moshiach Now!
There were several stabbings including subway violence over the weekend crickets about that!
There is no rational reason for him to do this. He is clearly deranged or simply an evil man drunk with power.
The Federal appeals court has called President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses “fatally flawed” and “staggeringly overbroad,” arguing that the requirements likely exceed the authority of the government and raise “serious constitutional concerns
Biggest question is how much money is he going to make from this? All he is is seeing is $$$$$. If he was reallly concerned about our life he would do something about the crime in NY !
what a rosha he is.
so sad that we have to go through this.
vaccine dose not work 50% of the people who are in the ICU are the vaccinated ones
just proves that it dose not work the vax people are the one who are spreading the virus
First of all, De Blasio is already being sued about this, so it will never come to pass. Second Eric Adams has already indicated that he will allow testing in many circumstances, instead of vaccines. So he will modify this law, which will never happen. According to the CDC, 1 in 4 people who are fully vaccinated have breakthrough infections anyway. Please look at their website.I fully support the vaccines, but if you carefully follow the news, 99% of the people who have the new Omicron variant here in the States (in 16 states already) have been FULLY VACCINATED. The… Read more »
Anyone in America has the right to make their own medical choices. Mandating that one take a vaccine that has not been proven to prevent infection, nor to prevent transmitting the disease, is not acceptable. If one feels the vaccine helps and protects them, take it. If you dont want to take it, why should someone force you to “keep yourself healthy”?! Without even discussing if the vaccine works, why does someone unvaccinated affect someone vaccinated? Also, private schools should be abke to choose if they are mandating the vaccine or not. If the parent body of the school is… Read more »
As we know, when something happens in New York it can often set the town for the rest of the USA
There must be adamant UNITED support against this before others in politics jump on this very dangerous banwagon…
This type of policy and attitude was the beginning of the Holocaust
What was once deemed radical and unthinkable has become acceptable and policy. This is all about government micromanaging our lives. Why are we still in a state of emergency and how is he still saying that we have to vaccinate to protect the people !!!
Much of Crown Heights recovered already from COVID. They therefore have natural immunity — confirmable via blood titer tests. If your kid had chicken pox and recovered from it, the doc would not then insist on giving your child a chicken pox vaccine! Same with COVID: it could even be considered hypochondriac to take a shot on top of already having natural immunity. Also, UNLIKE the standard vaccines for polio, measles, diphtheria, etc., neither the government nor the drug companies would give the COVID shots until it was established that they would not becliable when something goes wrong. THAT, my… Read more »
I believe children don’t need it at all. We will skip all indoor activities and what next? I see CA they do it for their kids like it’s nothing to worry about … as a Jewish mom I have strong concern about it, I don’t know what is inside the vaccine ( no one knows , why it’s a secret?) I see kids with side effects like myocarditis in ER healthy athletic kids and maybe something else because no one is by 5 years old has it yet to prove that is safe… what about children with preexisting conditions? They… Read more »