De Blasio: ‘Unless We Want Our Freedom Taken Away,’ We Need Impose a Vaccine Mandate

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DE BLASIO: “Sure. Willie, right now, we have to fight Covid like never before. The Delta variant has changed the game. Unless we want to run the risk of going back to restrictions and having our freedom taken away, and people losing their jobs again, it’s really clear what they have to do. People have to get vaccinated, and -- and we had a long period where it was voluntary. There was incentives. It was compassionate and kind. But now it’s time to get a little blunter about the fact that everyone needs to get vaccinated for the good of their family, their community, their country. And a lot of people, I think, are close to that point, but they needed a little more of a push.”