Kyrie Irving has spoken out after some crazy allegations about New York City COVID Czar Dr. Jay Varma have come to light.
During COVID, NBA fans will remember that Irving refused to get vaccinated, which meant under New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate he was ineligible to play in home games for the Nets at Barclays Center during the 2021-22 season.
At the time, there was a global uproar from everyone about it and it ignited a huge debate about vaccinations and freedom of choice.
Now, it has been revealed that Dr. Varma wasn’t even following the protocols he himself put in place and has recently been fired as executive vice president and chief medical officer at SIGA Technologies over it.
Varma admitted he and his wife held two ‘drug-fuelled’ sex parties in a hotel in August and November of 2020, plus went to a dance party with around 200 people in June of 2021.
He admitted all this after a video from conservative podcaster Steven Crowder was released.
Varma says the video was a result of his having been “targeted by an operative for an extremist right-wing organization determined to malign public health officials and take down the public health system in America.”
In the video, he brags about being the person responsible for stopping Irving from playing, “This is a fun part of my life…The Wall Street Journal wrote a whole story about me being the one that blocked Kyrie Irving from playing basketball.”
Kyrie saw the video and X on responded with, “GOD is truly the greatest and the TRUTH is always revealed in the light. I am grateful I am not alone on this mission. ‘Rise up out of the ashes no matter what,’”.
Kyrie fans have some strong opinions about the news and have taken to X to express as much.
To this day, the sickest part about covering this entire story while I was on the Nets beat was the complete about-face on the hardline vaccine stance once MLB season came around and the Yankees had players who were unvaccinated. https://t.co/XJaRPmMXNq
— Kristian Winfield (@Krisplashed) September 25, 2024
@KyrieIrving faced relentless media and fan backlash in 2021-22 for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, missing most of the Nets’ season due to NY’s mandate. Meanwhile, Dr. Jay Varma, who enforced the policy, proudly admits to blocking Kyrie from playing while indulging in drug-fueled… pic.twitter.com/iZGVJUP0ET
— Ham from BK (@Ham_BklynWx) September 25, 2024
Kyrie needs to sue the Nets and the NBA https://t.co/gcUEPa4rpD
— Dr.Darrell Scott (@PastorDScott) September 25, 2024
Not a good look. (Jay Varma was responsible for some of the harshest US Covid restrictions incl vax mandates in NYC. He criticised my work for pointing to harms of mandates). https://t.co/Fp9BI8Mtq3
— Kevin Bardosh (@KevinBardosh) September 19, 2024
Kyrie Irving Should of never been forced to take an experimental Vaccine to play basketball in NYC.
Ownership didn’t have his back 🐑
Fanbase didn’t have his back 🐑
NBA media didn’t have his back 🐑
pic.twitter.com/bUmQe5vgXB— NetsFrequent 👑 (@NetsFrequent) September 25, 2024
Everybody asking why they owe Kyrie an apology! That’s why . They really did him dirty
— 🏀🌱💙 (@Eunique_ny) September 25, 2024
I haven’t seen the people who were talking down on Kyrie before say anything about this 😭 https://t.co/2jr0ERgwwo pic.twitter.com/UzXhBuGVj1
— Kyrie Center (@kyriecenterig) September 25, 2024
glad the truth is now out but i’ll never forget how the media painted kyrie irving as the villain in all of this!! cost him and his team a ring and blackballed him out of that top 75 spot and tried ending that man’s career!!! https://t.co/qyO6X18pkz pic.twitter.com/OqcNlDBCoR
— chiɔinthegeɘk⨟ (@chicinthegeek) September 25, 2024