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Dr. Jay Varma, the man behind New York City’s draconian COVID response under Bill de Blasio, secretly broke all the rules he insisted were necessary to save lives.
He backed lockdowns that wrecked businesses and livelihoods; mindless vaccine mandates that cost workers their jobs.
And all the while he was enjoying underground raves and drug-fueled parties.
A video expose blew Varma up this week, showing the smug, smarmy Sybarite gloating over the fact that while he was going on TV to intone about the need for everyone to stay in their houses forever he was in private living like Caligula.
“I did all this deviant, like sexual stuff while I was like, you know, like on TV and stuff. People were like, ‘Aren’t you afraid? Aren’t you embarrassed?’ and I was like, ‘No, actually, I’m like, I love being my authentic self,” Varma boasted to the undercover journo.
He’s already taken up the standard playbook of progressive hypocrites: He didn’t use his “best judgment.” He just needed to “blow off steam.”
What about everyone else, Jay?
He stands by his COVID policy, stating it was based on science.
Nope: It was based on politics. --->READ MORE HERE
New York City’s former COVID czar was caught on a hidden camera boasting about having drug-fueled sex parties mid-pandemic — and admitting New Yorkers would have been “pissed” if they had found out at the time.
Dr. Jay Varma — who served as senior health adviser to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and was tasked with running the Big Apple’s pandemic response — made the confession in secretly recorded conversations with a so-called undercover operative from conservative podcaster Steven Crowder’s “Mug Club.”
“I had to be kind of sneaky about it … because I was running the entire COVID response in the city,” Varma was filmed telling the unidentified woman on Aug. 1 in what appears to be a restaurant.
The edited clips of the hidden camera footage, which were all recorded between July 27 and Aug. 14 in New York, were released by Crowder on Thursday. The Post has not reviewed the full, unedited recordings.
The identity of the woman Varma was speaking to — or where he met up with her — wasn’t clear. The nature of their relationship also wasn’t clear.
Varma, who no longer works for City Hall, admitted to The Post that he “participated in two private gatherings” between April 2020 and May 2021 — but insisted the secretly recorded conversations had been “taken out of context.”
In one clip recorded on Aug. 14, Varma was filmed acknowledging it would have been a “real embarrassment” for the city if he had been busted at the non-socially distanced parties — despite saying there were no gathering restrictions at the time.
“We went to some, like, underground dance party … underneath a bank on Wall Street … We were all rolling, we’re all taking molly [MDMA] and everybody’s high. And I was so happy because I hadn’t done that in like a year and a half,” he said in the clip.
“But I was looking around being like, ‘F–k, I wonder if anybody sees me, they’re gonna be pissed.’ Because this was not COVID-friendly,” he added.
“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,” he said, according to the video.
He also copped to renting a hotel room in the summer of 2020 with his wife and friends.
“My wife and I had one with our friends in August of like that first summer. So we rented a hotel … we all took, like, you know, molly [MDMA] and like it was like eight or nine or us, eight to 10 of us were in a room and everybody had a blast because everybody was like so pent up,” he said in a clip dated Aug. 1.--->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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