A New York restaurant owner Stratis Morfogen says he will not be complying with the city’s vaccine mandate for private sector personnel.
“I’m not doing the mandate, and I told Governor [Kathy] Hochul to come and arrest me,” Morfogen, owner of the Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, told Tucker Carlson on Thursday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight. “I’m not doing it because, first of all, the employees we have, these were our heroes. In [the] early part of COVID, we fed 8,400 healthcare workers.”
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“I’m not firing these people for a jab, for a job,” he added. “The government, from our governor to our mayor, they got it wrong from the beginning.”
Morfogen blasted politicians responsible for ushering in the vaccine mandates for having little-to-no experience running a business, adding that they “never ran a lemonade stand.”
“They never ran a small business,” the restaurant owner explained. “They don’t know those sleepless nights, what it takes to run a business.”
He further explained that New York is putting the burden of policing on business owners without providing “the tools to win,” saying that the vaccine passport cards were “1983 technology.”
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“I could be asymptomatic positive, and I can walk into my crowded restaurant — our Brooklyn Chop House, our Brooklyn Dumpling Shop — and I could spread it to everyone,”: Morfogen continued. “None of this makes sense. It should be converted to a health pass.”
