NYC Will Require Vaccines For NYPD, Teachers, And All City Workers

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that he will require every municipal worker to get vaccinated for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, by the middle of September or else get a test every week. Emma Vigeland the Majority Report crew discuss this.

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Emma Vigeland: Here's Bill de Blasio announcing how in New York City, citywide employees, there are over 300,000 of them, vaccinations are either going to be required by September or there's going to be weekly testing which like, not that big of a burden, that's not the NFL, where there's more profit on the line. But the NFL, they're requiring daily testing for unvaccinated players and once every 14 days if you are vaccinated. Which is interesting, but one's more important in terms of public service. It's just, I think interesting how this is trending because this could be the next step. We're seeing in France there was a new requirement that you have to be vaccinated to go to some indoor venues. And Germany is considering some similar provisions. In the United States, it's a lot more dicey for variety of reasons. Here's what de Blasio had to say in his announcement today, though.

De Blasio: On September 13th, which is the first full day of school, every single city employee will be expected to be either vaccinated or be tested weekly. This means everybody. This means obviously everyone who works in our schools: our educators and staffs, staff. It means the NYPD, the FDNY, it means all city agencies. It means people who work in offices, and people who work on the front line, everyone. Because September is when the rubber hits the road, and this is when we have to make the difference, and so this mandate will be in place.

Emma Vigeland: I don't really know why September's when the rubber hits the road, but I'd imagine this seems a little arbitrary but I think that's it's he's trying to get it to to line up with when kids are going back in school in person. Which, they've done polling and a lot of that is more driven by upper- to upper-middle-class parents who are more concerned about that, by the way, who are driving that conversation. But it is obviously I think a good goal to set, and I just wonder how many cities are going to follow suit after de Blasio kind of threw down the gauntlet here.

Matt Lech: Well, I think some but not a whole lot. I think until this actually like starts putting people's kids in hospitals this fall we're not gonna see a serious national response to this I'm afraid. And it will, I mentioned this at the top of the show, the Delta variant there's just again this is incredibly preliminary and we don't know exactly what's happening, but hundreds of children in Indonesia where the Delta variant's running rampant have died. Kids are going to start dying as this virus finds new ways to kill people and metastasizes and becomes something new. So it can infect people more easily. this is just the reality of the situation.