On the enraging – and evil – hypocrisy of public health authoritarians

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Dr. Jay Varma, who helped lead New York’s Covid response, was caught on video admitting he went to sex parties while he pushed lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Yet that’s NOT the worst thing he said.

Warning: this video of a top epidemiologist bragging about hosting sex parties during Covid and forcing mRNA jabs on adults captures everything wrong with public health in 17 minutes.

Prepare to be enraged.

Yesterday, the Canadian comedian Steven Crowder1 released video clips of Dr. Jay K. Varma talking about his group sex exploits during 2020 and 2021 – while Varma was the top advisor for New York City’s Covid response.

At the time, New York had strict lockdowns and vaccine mandates. The video, taken on a hidden camera, makes clear Varma knew he was ignoring his own rules: I had to be kind of sneaky, he says. He also admits using the illegal drug MDMA at the parties.

The media had a field day with Varma’s hypocrisy. Even the New York Times covered it, with the headline: Former N.Y.C. Covid Czar Partied While Preaching Social Distancing.

Varma’s taped confession is eerily reminiscent of the May 2020 revelation that Neil Ferguson, a British epidemiologist whose Covid death forecasts drove lockdowns, had violated the rules to see his married girlfriend. Who knew public health was so sexxxy?

But if Varma’s gleeful sexploit brags are nausea-inducing (and made worse by the fact that he, like Ferguson, is a middle-aged man with a face made for radio), the second half of the video is far more consequential – and disturbing.

The video – whose authenticity Varma does not dispute – consists of short clips of Varma that Crowder’s team have spliced together (interspersed with some snarky comments from Crowder). The clips were taken at New York restaurants in July and August; in each of them, Varma is talking to an unseen woman. He appears to be trying to impress her, as if they are on a date.

And Varma turns positively gleeful in the video’s second half, when he talks about how he forced people to be vaccinated.

“So the way we do it in public health is we make it very uncomfortable to be unvaccinated,” he tells the woman. “Without vaccines, it’s like, oh you can’t get a job, can’t go to a restaurant, kid can’t go to school [emphasis added], it’s like, fuck this, I’m just going to get vaccinated.”

“So is it, technically, like kind of forcing people?” the woman says.

And Varma nods. “Yeah. Yeah. That’s what you do. You force people by making it really uncomfortable.” Later, he adds, “I’m going to make it really fucking hard to, like, to be unvaccinated.”