Dec 5, 2023·edited Dec 6, 2023Liked by Steve Martin
Mayor Eric Adams' exemptions for athletes and entertainers in NYC really riled a lot of people up, and rightly so. It will not be forgotten, not for a very long time.
Relatedly:
New York City Committees on Oversight and Investigations & Civil Service and Labor
DANIEL CREREND [via Zoom]: Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Daniel Crerend. I'm married and a father of two beautiful children. I was previously employed by the NYPD from January 2013 to July 2022. I was a detective with the Brooklyn North Violent Crime Squad, formerly known as the Brooklyn North Gang Squad.
As a kid, there were two things I wanted to be when I grew up, a New York Yankee and a police officer. Obviously the first option did not pan out, but I was able to fulfill my dream and become a police officer. Ironically, if I had, my testimony would not be necessary today because I would be exempt from the vaccine mandate. Unfortunately I am not a multimillionaire athlete or entertainer, therefore I am not eligible to be part of this protected class of the New York City caste system.*
[*Transcriber's note: Crerend is refering to the Mayor Eric Adams' decision to exempt professional athletes and performers from vaccination requirements in local venues.]
Not only has the city of New York violated the religious liberty of every city employee who has been denied a religious accommodation, but the mandate itself is completely [Zoom transmission interruption] have had covid since we cannot work at home when the city shut down, therefore we acquired natural immunity to the virus.
Ah, excuse me [moves camera]
Going back to May 5th, 2021, during a Governor Cuomo press conference he stated, you cannot mandate vaccines because these vaccines are approved under something called an Emergency Use Authorization and by law, you cannot mandate a vaccine approved under Emergency Use Authorization. I myself went to a vaccine site back in June of this year and requested Comirnaty or Spikevax which are the only two FDA-approved version of the vaccine. They were not available and I was told they've never been available at the NYPD vax site. [Time's up alarm sounds] Also as of last month, the CDC—
MALE VOICE: Your time has expired.
DANIEL CREREND: Has revised their covid 19 guidelines and stated, CDC's covid-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person's vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur. Though they are generally mild, the persons who have had covid-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection. Combine all this with the fact that back in August of 2021 the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, stated, in reference to the vaccine, what they cannot do anymore is prevent transmission. That was two months before the inception of the vaccine mandate. If anyone could explain a reasonable argument for firing thousands of city workers for not receiving a vaccine that does not stop transmission or infection from covid, I would love to hear it. The simple fact is that there is no logical argument that can be made. You cannot make that make sense.
MALE VOICE: Time's expired.
DANIEL CREREND: Now nearly a year later after losing thousands of city employees to termination, resignation, forced retirement, the mayor's still not budging on the mandate, crime is out of control and reaching epidemic levels while covid— I'm just about done.
GALE A. BRWER: Thank you very much. Thank you.
DANIEL CREREND: Excuse me, I'm just about done.
FGALE A. BREWER: OK.
DANIEL CREREND: While crime is reaching epidemic levels while covid endemic levels, the mandate carries on in the guise of public safety. Unlike covid, there is a very simple cure to the violent crime surge in our city, it's more police, it is experienced police. What the mandate is doing is making our city far less safe.
GALE A. BREWER: OK.
DANIEL CREREND: Ah, losing thousands of experienced police officers, myself being one.
GALE A. BREWER: Sir, you got to, you got to wrap up, please. Thank you. We gotta wrap up.
DANIEL CREREND: I have one last point. Mayor Adams may not remember me, but on the fourth day of his day in office he [?] was press conference on [?] Gang Takedown, I was the lead investigator on it. [Continues speaking, but Zoom has been muted]
GALE A. BREWER: Alright, thank you.Thank you very much.
Hi Steve! That video is precious, and the Samurai Scientist is a hero like no other in a lovely nation sadly bereft of fearless truth-speakers.
Mayor Eric Adams' exemptions for athletes and entertainers in NYC really riled a lot of people up, and rightly so. It will not be forgotten, not for a very long time.
Relatedly:
New York City Committees on Oversight and Investigations & Civil Service and Labor
Gale A. Brewer, Chair, September 9, 2022
https://councilnyc.viebit.com/player.php?hash=U2mDNKAEkDJA
TRANSCRIPT
3:12:12
DANIEL CREREND [via Zoom]: Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Daniel Crerend. I'm married and a father of two beautiful children. I was previously employed by the NYPD from January 2013 to July 2022. I was a detective with the Brooklyn North Violent Crime Squad, formerly known as the Brooklyn North Gang Squad.
As a kid, there were two things I wanted to be when I grew up, a New York Yankee and a police officer. Obviously the first option did not pan out, but I was able to fulfill my dream and become a police officer. Ironically, if I had, my testimony would not be necessary today because I would be exempt from the vaccine mandate. Unfortunately I am not a multimillionaire athlete or entertainer, therefore I am not eligible to be part of this protected class of the New York City caste system.*
[*Transcriber's note: Crerend is refering to the Mayor Eric Adams' decision to exempt professional athletes and performers from vaccination requirements in local venues.]
Not only has the city of New York violated the religious liberty of every city employee who has been denied a religious accommodation, but the mandate itself is completely [Zoom transmission interruption] have had covid since we cannot work at home when the city shut down, therefore we acquired natural immunity to the virus.
Ah, excuse me [moves camera]
Going back to May 5th, 2021, during a Governor Cuomo press conference he stated, you cannot mandate vaccines because these vaccines are approved under something called an Emergency Use Authorization and by law, you cannot mandate a vaccine approved under Emergency Use Authorization. I myself went to a vaccine site back in June of this year and requested Comirnaty or Spikevax which are the only two FDA-approved version of the vaccine. They were not available and I was told they've never been available at the NYPD vax site. [Time's up alarm sounds] Also as of last month, the CDC—
MALE VOICE: Your time has expired.
DANIEL CREREND: Has revised their covid 19 guidelines and stated, CDC's covid-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person's vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur. Though they are generally mild, the persons who have had covid-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection. Combine all this with the fact that back in August of 2021 the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, stated, in reference to the vaccine, what they cannot do anymore is prevent transmission. That was two months before the inception of the vaccine mandate. If anyone could explain a reasonable argument for firing thousands of city workers for not receiving a vaccine that does not stop transmission or infection from covid, I would love to hear it. The simple fact is that there is no logical argument that can be made. You cannot make that make sense.
MALE VOICE: Time's expired.
DANIEL CREREND: Now nearly a year later after losing thousands of city employees to termination, resignation, forced retirement, the mayor's still not budging on the mandate, crime is out of control and reaching epidemic levels while covid— I'm just about done.
GALE A. BRWER: Thank you very much. Thank you.
DANIEL CREREND: Excuse me, I'm just about done.
FGALE A. BREWER: OK.
DANIEL CREREND: While crime is reaching epidemic levels while covid endemic levels, the mandate carries on in the guise of public safety. Unlike covid, there is a very simple cure to the violent crime surge in our city, it's more police, it is experienced police. What the mandate is doing is making our city far less safe.
GALE A. BREWER: OK.
DANIEL CREREND: Ah, losing thousands of experienced police officers, myself being one.
GALE A. BREWER: Sir, you got to, you got to wrap up, please. Thank you. We gotta wrap up.
DANIEL CREREND: I have one last point. Mayor Adams may not remember me, but on the fourth day of his day in office he [?] was press conference on [?] Gang Takedown, I was the lead investigator on it. [Continues speaking, but Zoom has been muted]
GALE A. BREWER: Alright, thank you.Thank you very much.
3:16:33
[END]
Ditto to Jinc, loved the video. And the way that you put this together was great, Steve.
This is the doctor who broke the NZ exemptions story, who has some objections to the reporting:
https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/free-speech-on-substack
Kudos. And thanks. God, to hear such frank discourse on this side of the pond...