Mayor Eric Adams: King of NY Official Thread
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ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
My G, what are you saying in this post? I am telling you that they said that they admitted to overcalculating how many of the reported cases are Omicron. CDC updated the guidelines because businesses asked them to and they admitted it. It’s not driven by science. And your theory applies to every variant.
Outlaw
New Hope For the HaveNotz
My stance is there shouldn’t be another lockdown with a variant that isn’t causing deaths and its symptoms are comparable to a cold.
In the UK Omicron is out competing the cold let alone Delta. Omicron is causing this surge. Please show me a source that says Delta is causing it.
December 18th was two weeks ago. Omicron is spreading like wildfire
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Hospitals are always overflooded with patients, covid or not. That's why he's mayor.Its like they forgot the risk of hospitals being overflooded with patients
Not like this.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Nah it was worse at the height of the pandemic. They had temporary hospital beds in the parks. They brought in a big ass ship just in case it got really real. Javits Center was overflowing with patients.
There's a lot of people outside who just wanna know and run to hospital the first time they see phlegm. It's bad now, don't get me wrong, but we're a long ways away from needing Central Park to get beds and tents together.
The issue now is the lines to get tested are 2020 levels again. People waiting 5-7 hours to get a test because there's no staff. Grandmas out here ready to fight people cuz they've been out in the cold.
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
Hospitals usually have enough beds, but you are right that it isn’t as bad as peak pandemic.
Fam, no one said omicron isn’t surging. I said it’s surge has been overstated in the US. You haven’t shown a source that says otherwise. Stop mentioning the UK to talk about the US. Who said there should be a complete lockdown? We’re talking about people saying proceed with business as usual.
Mayor Adams wants the Big Apple’s financial powerhouses to get back to business — period.
The newly-minted mayor took aim at major investment firms in the city on Monday for ordering their employees to work from home for the time being as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations continue to swell in New York.
Adams, who was sworn in Saturday, said the resumption of remote work policies at big banks like JPMorgan Chase ripples through the economy and hurts low-wage workers.
“We must get open, and let me tell you why: That accountant from a bank that sits in an office — it’s not only him, it feeds our financial eco system. He goes to the cleaners and get his suits clean, he goes out to the restaurants, he brings in a business traveler, which is 70% of our hotel occupancy,” he said in an appearance on Bloomberg TV.
“You can’t run New York City from home. We must have everyone participate in our financial ecosystem to allow the low-skill, unskilled, and people who are doing hourly employees to actually be part of our eco-system. They can’t remotely do their job.”
Adams’ adamant push for office work came on the heels of Goldman Sachs becoming the latest major financial firm to tell its city-based employees to work from home for the first couple of weeks of January to try to blunt the recent surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the extremely contagious omicron variant.
JPMorgan Chase, CitiBank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley have already instituted similar policies.
The remote work precautions come as New York continues to see its COVID-19 curve trend in the wrong direction.
According to data from the state Health Department, 23.17% of all tests conducted across New York in the 24-hour period ending Monday morning came back positive, with 29,246 infections recorded in the city alone. Hospitalizations are ticking up at an alarming rate as well, and 103 New Yorkers died from COVID-19 statewide in the same reporting window, the highest daily death toll in months, the data showed.
Despite the pandemic resurgence, Adams said the city can’t return to business shutdowns, arguing that widespread of availability of coronavirus vaccines should allow New Yorkers to “live with COVID.”
“I need my companies back open and operating,” he said. “You can’t run a city like New York on 30% occupancy in buildings. We need to get back to business and open our city.”
On the topic of vaccines, Adams said he’s considering mandating booster shots — which have proven highly effective in protecting people against severe COVID-19 symptoms — for the municipal workforce. He said he’ll have an announcement on the matter “around April.”
“But that does not take away from my clear message to New Yorkers: Get your booster shots, get vaccinated,” he said. “You may get COVID with the vaccine, but one thing is for sure: You’re less likely to die and get hospitalized.”
ogc163
Superstar
Eric Adams is going to kill every last one of us
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
1 million people got tested positive for Covid today. They should bring back the subway cleaning program at least. It’s only a matter of time before it crashes back into NYC
