BUCK: I’m happy to see that in New York City with the absurd double standard in place, of people who are really important, rich, and famous — professional athletes on teams like the Mets, the Yankees, the Nets, the Knicks — are exempt from the city vaccine mandate now, thanks to Mayor Eric Adams, but other people aren’t. Now fired New York City workers are suing Adams, because they’re saying, “Oh, look, this whole thing is arbitrary and capricious,” because it is.

So this is good to see. I mentioned before, we’ll continue to have covid accountability or lockdown accountability and also illegal immigration be the themes that we hit on this show, irrespective of what the national Democrat-corporate media does. Also, Clay, we were hitting on this yesterday — you were fired up about it and I feel the same way — pushing for people who were fired to get back their job to get backpay.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: And to get fully reinstated with an apology, if possible, for the firings that have occurred. They fired over 1,000 employees in New York, for not getting the vaccine, on what basis, now? Now that we see if you’re really important, the virus doesn’t affect you the same way, apparently? It’s absurd.

CLAY: (chuckling) Look, Eric Adams made the right decision to end this absurdity that Kyrie Irving could sit court side and watch a basketball game, but he couldn’t play in one, that the New York Mets and Yankees weren’t going to be able to play in baseball games if they hadn’t gotten their covid shots. But rectifying that wrong, just further illuminates the much more significant wrong.

Because pro athletes make enough money that if they’re not able to work, their families are not gonna suffer. Over 1,500 people in New York City — school teachers, firefighters, policemen and women — lost their jobs because they rightly, in my opinion, looked at the data and said, “I don’t need to get this covid shot. I’m not going to be forced to do so,” and I don’t think we’ll ever get an apology, Buck. I just…

I don’t think we’ll ever get an apology. But rehiring those people and giving them back pay will would be an acknowledgment of how wrong the policy was. And Eric Adams, frankly, Buck, has the ability to do this because this is Bill de Blasio’s policy. So there isn’t necessarily him having to acknowledge this was the wrong policy to have implemented in the same way that he would if he had been the mayor when all of this became a reality.

He’s coming in at a time where he can rectify some of the wrongs of his predecessor, Bill de Blasio. He’s clearly willing to do it for athletes. But we can’t have a standard for covid shots where the richer and more famous you are, the less necessity there is for you to get the covid shot. Everybody needs to be treated equally in this scenario.

BUCK: We saw it with masks over and over again too, right?

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So there’s always been this, “The rules are for the peasants, because they’re dirty and spread the virus, but the important people…” Whether it’s the mayor of Chicago, the governor of New York (when it was Cuomo), the mayor of San Francisco, all these people that were caught without… Deborah Birx, right? Hanging out, not social distancing with family. We saw it so many times, we can’t even give you all the instances of people having the double standard in effect here.

So, Clay, I agree, that the right… It’s kind of the right decision for the wrong reason when it comes to Eric Adams. Clearly, it’s professional sports teams are important, so fine, I’ll bend the knee to that. He’s not agreeing though that there wasn’t a basis for the scientifically — which to me leaves open the possibility that they’ll bring it back. And beyond that, I think that this is now going to be in the blue cities it’s, “Okay. This is a seasonal thing. We’re reasonable. It’s seasonal! So we’ll institute the thing as we have to when it comes up, and then we’ll get rid of it.”

I think their version of the new normal is every winter we have covid vaccine mandates for some businesses and some people, and we have mask mandates indoors. I think that’s what a lot of New York is getting ready for and Los Angeles. I don’t know. Probably not Houston, thankfully, for those folks down there.