Jay Varma, health adviser behind NYC COVID policy, partied during pandemic NBC New York
Videos of secretly recorded conversations with New York City’s former COVID czar reveal Dr. Jay Varma was attending sex parties and an underground dance club at the height of the pandemic, all while instructing New Yorkers to stay home and socially distant. These admissions have spurred calls from city council members for an investigation of the health official’s action during the health crisis.
Snippets of those conversations with Varma were shared this week by conservative podcaster Steven Crowder. In the highly edited videos, Varma appears to disclose to a woman, not seen on camera, speaking about his brazen choices in the face of extreme safety messaging to the city.
Varma, who was a senior public health adviser under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, is heard on the video disclosing he attended a dance underneath a bank on Wall Street with several hundred people in attendance.
“We were all rolling, we were all taking molly [MDMA], and everybody’s high. And I was happy because I hadn’t done that in like a year and a half,” Varma says, expressing relief no one appeared to recognize him. “If anybody sees me they’re gonna be pissed.”
Well we were all crazy back then, right? And it’s not as if he went to church.