{"id":421765,"date":"2022-03-26T03:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T00:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/letters-to-the-editor-march-26-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T03:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T00:11:24","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-march-26-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-march-26-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"#Letters to the Editor \u2014 March 26, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0f7712676\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0f7712676\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-march-26-2022\/#%E2%80%9CLetters_to_the_Editor_%E2%80%94_March_26_2022%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Letters to the Editor \u2014 March 26, 2022&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLetters_to_the_Editor_%E2%80%94_March_26_2022%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Letters to the Editor \u2014 March 26, 2022&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/March_24-_2022_NYC_mayor_Adams_vaccine_mandate_announcement.1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Issue: Mayor Adams\u2019 decision to carve out a vaccine mandate exemption for athletes and performers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So Mayor Adams is lifting all mandates for professional athletes (\u201cPlay ball!\u201d March 25).<\/p>\n<p>Proving he is just another hypocritical politician, his volte-face regarding athlete mandates was swift when billionaire team owners came calling \u2014 but firefighters, cops and other municipal and private sector workers get a collective middle finger from Adams.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to lead from the front when the rich and powerful are behind you, but the poor, everyday working man or woman, well, they\u2019ll just have to fend for themselves. <\/p>\n<p><em>James McCaffrey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yonkers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s bad enough for Mayor Adams to offer the carve-out, shame on any of the players or artists who accept such a grant of privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Especially those such as Kyrie Irving, who claimed his actions were supporting those losing their jobs due to mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The real fans and heroes are the everyday people as well as the nurses, first responders and other city workers. What a disgusting slap in the face to them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brian Sullivan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rockaway Beach<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adams is making sports players and performers exempt from vaccine mandates. Meanwhile, many in the NYPD and FDNY as well as teachers have been fired for not being vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, this is a double standard. The mayor is being a hypocrite. Why are only the rich and the famous getting exemptions?<\/p>\n<p>Our police and firefighters protect us from harm, and our teachers educate our children and are extremely essential to our well-being. Shame on the mayor. This is not right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frederick Bedell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bellerose<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, now we know where Adams\u2019 real priorities are: in the special suites or box seats in our athletic stadiums or buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Unvaccinated athletes can play and possibly infect their whole team or spectators, no problem. But police, fire, sanitation and health-care workers cannot work unless they are vaccinated. Talk about hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kim Cody<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Whitestone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adams is going to lift the COVID vaccine restrictions for athletes and performers. This gives rise to a great inequity.<\/p>\n<p>Employees are still fired under the mandate requiring workers to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>These workers placed their lives on the line, working when there was no vaccine. Yet the rules are being changed for highly paid athletes who sat out the height of COVID. <\/p>\n<p><em>Karen Snyder<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rego Park<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought New York could get someone just as bad as, if not worse than, Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n<p>Adams is clueless. He\u2019s allowing pro athletes, vaxxed or not, to play, yet the average worker who was fired is screwed. New York is never going to be back, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p><em>Steven DelGaudio<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Edgewater, NJ<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Up to this point, I have given Adams the benefit of the doubt. But this awful double-standard decision can haunt his mayoralty.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t have one rule for one group and a different rule for another. It can only divide us even more than we are now.<\/p>\n<p>We were never in this all together. There are working people who lost their livelihoods for exercising a choice. Some of these workers were serenaded with the banging of pots and pans for showing up during the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>If Mayor Adams wants to show true courage and leadership, he should revisit this issue now and lift the vax mandate for everybody.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tony Giametta<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oceanside<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adams lets professional athletes rule the roost.<\/p>\n<p>Unvaccinated sports stars, who have been kowtowed to all their lives, are now eligible to play. Adams had the opportunity to make a goal-line stand and caved.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you ask? Yankees President Randy Levine and Mets President Sandy Alderson cried that stars such as Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo, Jacob deGrom or Pete Alonso might be unable to play home <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alan Swartz<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Verona, NJ<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Want to weigh in on today\u2019s stories? Send your thoughts (along with your full name and city of residence) to letters@nypost.com. Letters are subject to editing for clarity, length, accuracy and style.<\/strong><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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So Mayor Adams is lifting all mandates for professional athletes (\u201cPlay ball!\u201d March 25). Proving he is just another hypocritical politician, his volte-face regarding athlete mandates was swift when billionaire team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/March_24-_2022_NYC_mayor_Adams_vaccine_mandate_announcement.1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[127154,82862,66147,32807,72133,8326,3674,71041],"class_list":["post-421765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-25-22","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-eric-adams","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-mlb","tag-nba","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}