By: Jared Evan

As the COVID Pandemic winds down in NYC, schools reopen, endless unemployment reached its end, and some resemblance of normalcy begins to take hold, albeit with controversial vaccine card checks; some individuals apparently seem to enjoy “the new normal” of isolation and zoom meetings and do not want to return to normal; in particular Queens City Councilwoman Adrienne Adams.

Adams is making a bid to continue pandemic restrictions for City Council members. The NY Post reports:

Adams has been trying to rustle up support among her colleagues to shut down in-person meetings for Council members, community boards, precinct community councils and other civic bodies.

“We are writing to you to request a reinstatement of the moratorium on in-person meetings within the State of New York due to the rising health concerns around the COVID-19 Delta variant,” Adams wrote in a draft letter to Gov. Hochul circulated among her colleagues this week. “Requiring these public meetings to be held in person places government officials, community leaders, and the public at risk of catching and potentially spreading this contagious virus.”

In June of this year former governor Cuomo’s emergency orders were lifted and City Council meetings returned to normal.

“The letter to Gov. Hochul does not intend to refer to the return of a city lockdown or restriction of any kind, but to offer the option to attend mandated in-person meetings on a virtual basis for public safety purposes,” Adams told The Post, saying she was not in favor of renewed lockdowns.

NY Post reported:

“I think the City Council should go back. We’re at the point where they should have long since been vaccinated and should get back to work in the chambers,” said one insider. “They need to show that New York City government can operate with some level of normalcy again. You can’t expect kids and teacher to go back to school if 51 members of the City Council can’t even get back into the chambers.”

Meanwhile in other City Council news, Tiffany Caban, the heavy favorite to win Queens City Council district 22 announced her intentions to experiment with “restorative justice”. The favorite to win the solid liberal district is perhaps to the left of even AOC. Caban wants victims of violent crimes to work wither their attackers together, instead of jailing criminals Caban envisions a victim of a violent crime holding hands with their attacker in a rehabilitative program. Instead of punishment, the thug would get a pat on the back and the victim would literally be forced to befriend their attacker.

NY Post reported that the few GOP members in the city are worried that because Democratic Mayoral candidate Eric Adams is considered centrist, many NYC Republicans will not turn out to vote and the City Council will go 100% Democratic. GOP Councilman Eric Ulrich’s term-limited departure from his Ozone Park district has created an opening and GOP officials are worried low Republican turnout will hand this City Council seat over to the Democratic party, which is becoming more left wing by the minute.