Source: Politics
De Blasio announces vaccination mandate for all New York City workers
1 00:00:00,090 –> 00:00:05,520 >> So what is the next step here. You put in the mandate for teachers. Now you’re going bigger with it. What’s the announcement. 2 00:00:05,520 –> 00:00:10,920 >> It’s a mandate now for all city agencies all city workers. It’s time for 3 00:00:10,920 –> 00:00:16,320 everyone to get vaccinated. Our public employees are going to lead us out of the covered area 4 00:00:16,320 –> 00:00:21,920 . Look what we did with our schools worked. Our schools are incredibly safe. 5 00:00:21,920 –> 00:00:27,450 And families needed to know their kids to be safe. Well we all need to know we’re gonna be safe going forward 6 00:00:27,450 –> 00:00:33,060 . We’ve got to end the cove era our police officers are EMT as 7 00:00:33,060 –> 00:00:36,110 our firefighters all our public employees. 8 00:00:36,150 –> 00:00:41,610 >> A lot of whom come in very close contact with their fellow New Yorkers. They need to be safe. Their families need 9 00:00:41,610 –> 00:00:47,400 to be safe. But we also need to reassure all New Yorkers that if you’re working with a public employee they’re 10 00:00:47,400 –> 00:00:49,200 vaccinated everyone is going to be safe. 11 00:00:49,200 –> 00:00:54,990 >> The city has done pretty well with its public employees already I think the numbers 70 percent of them have been vaccinated 12 00:00:54,990 –> 00:01:00,270 . So you’re really targeting the other 30 percent and you specifically mentioned police and firefighters. We 13 00:01:00,270 –> 00:01:04,320 know some of those vaccination rates have been a little lower. Is that who you’re thinking about here. 14 00:01:04,320 –> 00:01:09,660 >> I’m thinking about all city employees who are not yet vaccinated. We need them across the boards about 15 00:01:09,660 –> 00:01:14,970 forty six thousand who still are not vaccinated and we proved with our schools we 16 00:01:14,970 –> 00:01:20,400 proved with our hospitals it could be done the right way. The safe way for everybody and this 17 00:01:20,400 –> 00:01:24,360 is part of why we’ve got Cove it on the run right now in New York City but you’d never look. 18 00:01:24,360 –> 00:01:29,640 >> We learned the hard way with the Delta variant never let up the gas uncovered. Never think it’s 19 00:01:29,640 –> 00:01:34,770 easy to defeat this enemy. We’ve got more work to do. Our public employees have to be 20 00:01:34,770 –> 00:01:40,200 part of this solution. But I think it is on a human level. We have lost 21 00:01:40,200 –> 00:01:45,780 a lot of our public employees. We’ve lost a lot of people serve us in this country law enforcement. 22 00:01:45,780 –> 00:01:51,090 We’ve lost 460 law enforcement officers to code it more than to 23 00:01:51,090 –> 00:01:52,410 any other cause. 24 00:01:52,410 –> 00:01:57,750 >> And we’ve got to protect them. We’ve got to protect each other and we’ve got to realize if 25 00:01:57,750 –> 00:02:02,970 we don’t keep vaccination strong we won’t turn the corner fast enough we’ll 26 00:02:02,970 –> 00:02:08,490 lose tens of thousands more people in this country. And I’m saying this To every mayor every governor 27 00:02:08,490 –> 00:02:13,680 every CEO. It’s time for these mandates finish this war or 28 00:02:13,680 –> 00:02:16,040 we’re going to have covered with us way too long so.