Mayor-elect Eric Adams said Thursday that he will keep New York City’s vaccine mandate for businesses and that the city will set a spring deadline on whether to have a new vaccine mandate for public school students, the AP reports.
Adams made the announcements at a press conference in which he laid out details of his sweeping plan to fight COVID-19 when he assumes office on Jan. 1.
Adams said the private-sector vaccine mandate that was put in place by Mayor Bill de Blasio this month will stay in effect in 2022, with a focus on “compliance, not punishment.”
The mayor-elect said he’d work closely with stakeholders to ensure compliance. “I don’t believe we need to be heavy handed with our businesses; COVID has been heavy handed enough with our businesses,” he said.
While the city will use a “light-handed approach” and support businesses that are attempting to comply with the mandate, businesses that are “recklessly not complying” will be fined, Adams said.
Adams also announced that the city will set a spring deadline for a decision on whether to have a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school students.
He said he’s been talking with Gov. Kathy Hochul about the possibility of mandating vaccinations for students, since it would be a state decision.
“Right now, we don’t believe the rates in schools call for that,” Adams said.
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So much for being mr business, this is exactly how you chase away businesses. I would bet that the same will be for crime… maybe a slight improvement but nothing significant
they are all pathetic . they wont stop till they own you. i had mentioned 2 yrs ago it wont stop till they start putting yellow patches on you, well this past week it started on trains to canada. you let 1 of your freedoms gone, they eventfully will take all your freedom away
To encourage customers to get the vaccine. There are many potential customers who are staying home because they don’t want to go somewhere with unvaccinated people around…you can be upset all you want but the customers who are against mandates the most already moved
There are many people who, if required to get the vaccine in order to shop someplace, are just going to go to a different store where they have more sense.
If you expected anything different than more Socialism for NYC, that’s on you.
This mandate needs to stay in place and schools should require the vaccine, both public and private.
To get everyone to move to Florida!
ha ha ha we all were WARN BUT STILL VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS THIS IS WHAT YOU GET !!!
I voted sliwa Even if every single jew voted sliwa,adams will still have won! You just want to guilt trip. While every body told us including dov hikind adams will be good i was skeptical. Fernando mateo republican said in the primaries,If the governor requires vax madates he would enforce it,this is why sliwa won the nomination. Even glenn youngkin a republican govorner elect is questioning wether to ban vaccine mandate in virginia,which i think if he would follow and ban vaccine mandate for local city’s that it will help virginia stay republican. This shows me there is diffrence in… Read more »
Its time to leave ny this is crazy.
Enough is enough
When you have your jobs here, your housing, all your kids settled in schools…
Is this how hes starting to run in office?! Not only keeping de blasio s mandate but thinking to add his own?! Seriously?! Whoever voted for him, hope you wont be biting your tongue more sooner then later!
Bent on self destruction
Same old stuff
i thought we were told hes pro business
Inch by inch freedoms will be stripped.
This is why I vote Democrat, the party that actually cares about humanity.
Humanity would like to be free
that the vaccines don’t do anything to prevent the spread (in Germany, to take an example I just came across from the Robert Koch Institute, over 95% of Omicron cases are among the vaccinated (of which 28% had boosters)) –
-then in what universe is it “caring for humanity” to mandate that people take it?
All the attention seeking community members kissing his feet and trusting that he wont back stab them. A democrat in nyc will never take the side of the jewish community let alone repuclican views. What was everyone thinking? Wake up!
They will take the jewish side by not enforcing,that is why the politician’s of ch endorsed because he is not de blasio,they know that he would be good to the jews
But what we need is policy change for everyone
This is we should stop looking for politician’s that all they care about is money for yeshivos
Because they will strip every single freedom we have and we will be ok with it as long as the yeshivos get money
THE ENTIRE CROWNS HIEGHTS OF JEWISH POPULATION VOTED FOR THIS NEW MAYOR HAHA HA
How would you know who people voted for
Either way, only One we can count on, has, and will always be Hashem.
Moshiach NOW
I voted for Sliwa.
What are the CH leaders who endorsed him saying about this?
Now more parents will decide to send their Jewish children to a private frum Jewish school
What is going to the staff in private schools? Will there a vaccine mandate there as well?
yes
Erik adams is a smart man that means if there should be mandates then I’m fine and should all of you
prefer to think for ourselves, not to outsource our thinking to “smart men.” We also believe in our chachamim and in the Torah, not in politicians.
That doesn’t sound very smart
…yet 28.5% now have Covid, and rising exponentially. If this pandemic has taught us anything, it is that these vaccines do not work. i have no problem with actual vaccines: polio, varicella, tenanus, MMR, etc. All my kids got them. But these are not real vaccines. The immunity does not last decades, but mere months, or even weeks. And an Israeli study shows that multiple shots can damage the immune system and actually reduce the effectiveness against Covid. So why a mandate for shots which are not protecting anyone from getting Covid? The Steelers QB was 2x-vaxxed, and got delta.… Read more »
Sliwa was right when he said DeBlasio and Adams are a tag team.
Omicron is the worlds natural vaccine. The world has gone jab mad . Obviously they are getting paid to much money from big pharma to stop. Wake up people they don’t freaking work!!!!!