New York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters on Thursday that he has no plans to rehire the roughly 1,400 city workers who lost their jobs for refusing to comply with the city’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, even though he is exempting athletes and performers.

“Today we take another step in our city’s economic recovery — leveling the playing field for New Yorkers and supporting local businesses and performance venues across the city,” he said.

“By expanding an existing exemption, we are simply making sure the rules apply equally to everyone who is a performer, regardless of where they are from. The old exemption put our sports teams at a self-imposed competitive disadvantage and was unfair to New York performers,” he claimed.

Apparently Adams thinks nothing of being unfair to New York non-performers.

Asked about the prospect of rehiring the 1400 canned workers who had the misfortune of not being celebrities or athletes, however, Adams declared, “Not at this time.”