terrific, but they were developed for the original variant, we should start thinking about kind of broader vaccines, broader protection. and then the key here, i think, is communicating with people, we re not going to be in a forever emergency, we ll be able to manage future surges, let s relax when we can and then let s manage the surge when it hits us again. i think it is interesting that people aren t talking more about the fact that we re past the worst of it in places that were hit hard by omicron. it would actually help. it might help. what are the chances that after omicron, given how many people are vaccinated in the u.s. and how many people had omicron infections that we could hit a stage, you know, i hesitate to use this language, the best ever for all of us in terms of coronavirus since it started. yeah, i m pretty optimistic that that s what we re going to see. obviously, again, you have to be a bit humble about what happens in the future, but, look, we have got 60 some
remember, it is talking about the anatomy of the big lie here. it wasn t just said one time, it wasn t spewed in one conference room or one courtroom. this was part of a concerted effort that is appearing more and more to try to subvert the will of the people. and the certification process of the electoral college. and so anyone who had a hand in it, don t think that by virtue of being an attorney that somehow a privileged argument will shield you. if you re involved in criminal behavior, if somebody else knows about it, of course, the privilege, of course, is then conditional and qualified, or if you engage in the behavior yourself. there are many people now we re seeing whose fingerprints are all over it and i m looking more and more to what the january 6th committee is doing and the timing of the people they have chosen to ask of late to come and appear, after hundreds of people have already given information. i wonder now if they are corroborating what they already know, or they re
the normandy four including germany meets today in paris and we are all looking forward to the outcome of the meeting in paris today. because what happens if germany doesn t you re talking about germany, obviously, just needs to do needs to do this. what happens if germany doesn t? what does that look like? what happens i m not going to discuss hypothetical situations. i m very much confident that sooner than later we will make the only right choice, the choice is peace and doing everything possible to avert another war in europe. look, i don t know it is hypothetical. you re looking at russian forces amassed on three sides of your country. and, look, i ask you this because americans are looking at this, trying to make sense of it, and trying to understand why they should be paying attention to it. what happens if you don t have countries like germany and other
people if we see another surge, we re going to need to go back and put some more public health restrictions in place. and let s prepare for future surges. if they never come, terrific. but the bottom line is, we need to have a much more aggressive preparation mentality. if cases are low, and things are good, act like it. so that when things get bad, you can make the changes you need. so how do you prepare for the possibility of a surge in cases? yeah. so, you know, because we re two years in, we know a lot about this virus. and every variant, they re all a little different, they re still the same underlying virus and we know how to manage it. you know the list. what we need to have lots and lots of tests, ramp up production, have it in stores so the next time we have a surge, we can get them out to people and flood the zone with tests. we need to develop and we have some great therapeutics, we don t have enough doses, we have to build up our stores of that as well. we should star
violence in our city. so as an example of someone, you know, either by themselves, maybe they do it in a group, commit a nonviolent crime, say they steal food from a bodega or something, it turns out that they or one of them has a gun, they re arrested, do you prosecute them for possession of a weapon? yes. yes. the example i gave, which i talked about, which may have led to some confusion is, my family member, this was years ago, not in new york, he wasn t the person, it was someone else that was arrested, the gun, didn t know about it, didn t touch it, but someone who was walking around our city, carrying a gun, we re doing those cases, we re doing those cases vigorously and those are important to our public safety, you know, message and to the deterrence in our city, they re high priorities for my office. just to be clear, you have multiple people involved in that theft, one has a gun, one makes an argument they didn t know