In a conversation caught on a hidden camera, New York City’s former Covid czar Jay Varma admitted to organizing sex parties in 2020. “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 explained. In the videos, he also talked about using stigma, shame, and basically the threat of lost livelihood in order to cajole people to take Covid vaccines (even though perhaps half the population already had some form of immunity from contact with the disease itself).
The Atlantic decided to frame these remarks and their hypocrisy as a mistake with regard to empathy. Perhaps there would be less anger at public-health officials if they just admitted that they sometimes broke or bent their own rules. It would make them more “relatable.”
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