forewarning, no discussion. why the surprise? i don t think anyone should be surprised by what we re seeing with the omicron variant, with the extraordinary growth of cases that we re experiencing in this city and all over this country. look at our country like germany, right now, shutdowns, restrictions, we cannot let that happen. we had take decisive action. this omicron variant moves fast. we have to move faster. that s why we did this. doesn t take long to call a business association. we talked to business leaders for months about the reality of the delta variant. and the whole reality of covid, you know what they tell us, one, when the government acts, it makes it easier for them to act. they like to see the government lead. we did that with our own public employees, our own public schools. we proved it works. and then what we also heard from business leaders is whatever you do, don t let us go back to shutdown. don t let us go backwards. this say preemptive strike. this is
shutdown. don t let us go backwards. this is a preumtive strike to get ahead of something threatening us in a new way. harris: really, though? he is leaving office and being replaced by eric adams who used to be a republican. so maybe that one woman on the street was right trying to do this to get it in there before it s gone. it won t help and likely won t last once deblasio leaves office on december 31st. media buzz host howie kurtz wrote it is hard enough trying to build public support for vaccinations which have become embroiled in partisan politics. this heavy handed move by an outgoing mayor isn t going to help. rachel campos-duffy co-host of fox & friends weekend and co-host of moms on fox nation and kevin walling former biden campaign surrogate. where do you see the mayor doing this, rachel? he may want to make a point. i have to tell you that eric
and seeking to drum up support and sarah palin was typically in blue state california which is now a battle ground state and it looks like the president is still staying with the message he wanted to drive home the democrats and he may have finally grabbed one yesterday with what at the end. next hour, take a listen. this election is a choice and the stakes cannot be higher because if they win this election, a share of a republican committee already promised to pursue the exact same agenda as they did before they took office. that s what they said. i don t know if any of you have noticed, but if you want to go forward in your car, what do you do? you put it into d. you want to go backwards, you put it into r, don t let us go backwards now. that s a good one, a clever one, that drives it home. pun intended.
iraq, and and the gist of it was, you don t like how i handled it, you really don t like how the republicans would handle it. that was his retort and used what i think has become his favorite analogy will republicans, driving the economy into the ditch and let s not give them the keys and he did add a clever analogy, let s listen. this election is a choice and the stakes could not be higher because if they win this election, the chair of a republican campaign committee has already promised to pursue the exact same agenda as they did before they took office. that s what they said. i don t know if any of you have noticed, but if you want to go forward in your car, what do you do. you put it into d. you want to go backwards, you put it into r, don t let us go backwards now.