New York City's Covid czar Dr. Jay Varma under former Mayor Bill de Blasio has attempted to defend himself after Steven Crowder's Mug Club Investigations got him on camera admitting to holding drug-fueled sex parties while telling New Yorkers to stay home, mask up, and mandating vaccines for participation in public life. He claimed that his comments to the undercover journalist were "spliced, diced, and taken out of context" by "an operative for an extremist right-wing organization."

"In those private conversations that were secretly recorded, spliced, diced, and taken out of context, I referred to events that transpired four years ago," Varma said in a statement to local talk radio station 1010 WINS. "Between April 2020 - May 2021, I participated in two private gatherings. I take responsibility for not using the best judgment at the time."

"Unfortunately," his statement continued, "I was 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. This individual has been highly discredited and he has been banned from numerous media outlets for his homophobic slurs and racist rants."

"Facing the greatest public health crisis in a century, our top priority was to save lives, and every decision made was based on the best available science to keep New Yorkers safe," Varma told 1010 WINS. "I stand by my efforts to get New Yorkers vaccinated against COVID-19, and I reject dangerous extremist efforts to undermine the public’s confidence in the need for and effectiveness of vaccines."

In a video released on Thursday, Crowder revealed that Varma, the doctor responsible for Covid restrictions and guidelines in New York City during the recent pandemic, was secretly engaging in drug-fueled sex parties with his wife and their friends. 

Varma appeared during morning press briefings with de Blasio nearly every morning during the Covid crisis in New York to tell New Yorkers how to protect themselves from the deadly scourge, stoking fears, playing on apocalyptic nightmares, yet did not fear what he told New Yorkers to fear. In convincing de Blasio to enact vaccine mandates, which he told the undercover reporter he did, he deprived an unknown number of New Yorkers from engaging in their livelihoods. One of those who was penalized for not getting the vaccine was NBA player Kyrie Irving. 

In speaking about why he felt it was important to hold Irving to the mandates, he said it was a "moral" consideration, going on to say "What type of message does it send to New Yorkers if rich people, powerful people, connected people, basically get to make their own rules?"

As Varma instructed New Yorkers how to conduct their lives, staying away from friends and family, forcing loved ones to die alone in hospitals without being able to say goodbye, demanding masking, and mandating vaccines, he was not only attending but hosting sex parties for himself, his wife, and their friends. In the expose, Varma insists that he required participants in the orgies to get Covid tested, but that the need to be together was too great to deny for himself or his sexual partners.

On August 3, 2020, Varma answered a question about large gatherings and the problems of contagion. "We haven't seen any specific activities traced to large gatherings repeatedly," Varma told press. "We do interview patients and ask them about attendance at gatherings. We find that you know, in the past few weeks, anywhere from 10 to 20 percent of people report being at any type of gathering that may have been a risk for this infection. But we haven't seen any large clusters specifically associated with any of these events. That said, we need to remain extremely vigilant for any types of these events. And one of the most important things New Yorkers can do is to continue to get themselves tested even if they don't have symptoms because it is always possible that they could acquire infection somewhere, and the sooner we can identify it, the better off we'll be." 

It was in August that he and his wife hosted their first hotel sex party of the pandemic. In a second video release from Crowder, Varma admitted that he knew shutting down schools was going to hurt New York City children, but that he and de Blasio capitulated to the wants and wishes of the teachers' union, which wanted to keep schools closed and forced students into remote learning. Schools closed on March 13, 2020 and were closed for 18 months.