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Jay Varma: I actually was the one who convinced the Mayor to make it a mandate. [vaccine or lockdown?]

Female Journalist: Like, if New York City found out that you were having sex parties during COVID?

Jay Varma: Yeah it would have been a real embarrassment.

Jay Varma: We went to some, like underground, like, dance party, like, underneath a bank on Wall Street. And we were all rolling! We were all taking Molly, and everybody's high and I was so happy because I hadn't done that in like a year and a half, and like a year or whatever!

And but I was looking around being like Fuck! I wonder if anybody sees me, they're gonna be pissed. Because this was not COVID-friendly.

The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then.

“I had to be kind of sneaky about it, you know? Because hotels didn't want people gathering there, because, I was like running the entire COVID response for the city...

My wife and I had like one with our friends like in August of like that first summer.

So, we rented a hotel... It was fun! We all took like, you know Molly, and it was like ... 8 to 10 of us were in a room and everybody had a blast because everybody was like so pent up because like, everybody was like stuck together and stuff like that, sometimes it isn't so much about, like penetrative sex type stuff. Something about like, bodies being close to each other, like just being like naked with friends. It was like the summer of 2020. So, you could still like walk around the streets... You could eat outdoors, you couldn't eat indoors.

Female Journalist: Did you have like any mandates in place?

Jay Varma: There wasn't any restrictions on gathering, like you could technically gather people, the hotels didn't want any inside parties, but, they weren't gonna like enforce it.

It's so funny it's like, because I did all this like deviant like sexual stuff while I was like you know like on tv and all this stuff and people are like, Aren't you afraid? Aren't you embarrassed? And I was like No. Actually I'm like really like... I love being my authentic self.

So the way we do it in public health, is we make it very uncomfortable to be unvaccinated. I don't expect your education to change your behavior. I'm just gonna make it really fucking hard for you to do your job. You can't get a job, you can't go to a restaurant, your kid can't go to school..., It's like Fuck it. I'm just going to get vaccinated.

Female Journalist: So was it technically like, kind of forcing people?

Jay Varma: Yeah. You force people by making it really uncomfortable.

I made a Full Transcription:

Jay Varma: I actually was the one who convinced the Mayor to make it a mandate. [vaccine or lockdown?]

Female Journalist: Like, if New York City found out that you were having sex parties during COVID?

Jay Varma: Yeah it would have been a real embarrassment.

Jay Varma: We went to some, like underground, like, dance party, like, underneath a bank on Wall Street. And we were all rolling! We were all taking Molly, and everybody's high and I was so happy because I hadn't done that in like a year and a half, and like a year or whatever!

And but I was looking around being like Fuck! I wonder if anybody sees me, they're gonna be pissed. Because this was not COVID-friendly.

The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then.

“I had to be kind of sneaky about it, you know? Because hotels didn't want people gathering there, because, I was like running the entire COVID response for the city...

My wife and I had like one with our friends like in August of like that first summer.

So, we rented a hotel... It was fun! We all took like, you know Molly, and it was like ... 8 to 10 of us were in a room and everybody had a blast because everybody was like so pent up because like, everybody was like stuck together and stuff like that, sometimes it isn't so much about, like penetrative sex type stuff. Something about like, bodies being close to each other, like just being like naked with friends. It was like the summer of 2020. So, you could still like walk around the streets... You could eat outdoors, you couldn't eat indoors.

Female Journalist: Did you have like any mandates in place?

Jay Varma: There wasn't any restrictions on gathering, like you could technically gather people, the hotels didn't want any inside parties, but, they weren't gonna like enforce it.

It's so funny it's like, because I did all this like deviant like sexual stuff while I was like you know like on tv and all this stuff and people are like, Aren't you afraid? Aren't you embarrassed? And I was like No. Actually I'm like really like... I love being my authentic self.

So the way we do it in public health, is we make it very uncomfortable to be vaccinated. I don't expect your education to change your behavior. I'm just gonna make it really fucking hard for you to do your job. You can't get a job, you can't go to a restaurant, your kid can't go to school..., It's like Fuck it. I'm just going to get vaccinated.

Female Journalist: So was it technically like, kind of forcing people?

Jay Varma: Yeah. You force people by making it really uncomfortable.