By: Shenal Tissera
New York City Mayor Eric Adams condemned the assassination attempt made on former president Donald Trump over the weekend and emphasized the need to cool down the political climate at his weekly scheduled press conference at City Hall on Tuesday.
The mayor lamented the effect social media and isolation has had on the nation’s youth after the attempt on Trump’s life on Saturday, July 13, in Butler, Penn. by Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, which left one dead and two in critical condition.
“Our children are being radicalized. They’re lonely. They’re on social media. They are in the corners of their home, and they’re being radicalized,” said Adams. “We’re ignoring what is happening to these young people and the role that social media is playing…We need to have a real plan to stop it.”
“I think everyone has a role in the climate that we are living in right now. Everyone, and that includes me…We all need to check ourselves,” said Adams. “I don’t want to go into, did he create the atmosphere? I want to know…What could I do and contribute to toning down the rhetoric in the city and country?”
The administration also offered more insight into the discovery of two cases of measles at the Hall Street emergency migrant shelter in Clinton Hill.
The two individuals who tested positive were quarantined on the first floor and those showing any symptoms consistent with the disease were also isolated from everyone, according to city officials.
“We immediately went into quarantine for people that had been exposed at the shelter…We had clinicians talk to everybody to see how they were doing,” said Ted Long, senior vice president of Ambulatory Care and Population Health at NYC Health + Hospitals. “We really wanted to make sure that we were attending to people because this is a very scary thing. I’m terrified of measles.”
The city “offered vaccines to anybody” in the shelter, especially those within the window of exposure with the two infected individuals. More than 80% of people exposed to the measles cases at the shelter no longer needed to quarantine, according to Long.
The city has screened 150,000 people for communicable diseases and has administered 75,000 vaccines to date for asylum seekers. Since the cases in the Brooklyn shelter were revealed, no new cases of measles have been identified, city officials said.
“Money back in the pockets of New Yorkers. A typical worker who does 20 hours a week, that’s an increase of at least $12,000 more per year in the pockets of workers,” said Adams.
Earnings per hour after tips rose from $11.72 to $19.26 over the past year.
No one questions a male leader if he needed more support when he leaves a position, the mayor said.
“I want to get to a day in this city and country where if a woman decides to do something else with her life, she’s not all of a sudden saying, oh, you couldn’t cut it? It was too much for you? It was too hard for you? No, she wants to do something else with her life, like the men that left wanted to do something else with their life,” he said.
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