“I would still wish that everyone would realize that when people gather it’s inherently dangerous in the context of this pandemic and I’m going to keep urging people not to use that approach and if they do they focus on social distancing and wearing face coverings,” de Blasio said in a news briefing today.
De Blasio said “you cannot see overt racism, you cannot see overt racist murder and not feel something profoundly deep, so I understand that.”
“But the last thing we would want to see is members of our community harmed because the virus spread in one of these settings,” de Blasio said. “It’s a very very complicated reality.”
