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While thousands of sick patients died alone under forced hospital isolation measures, New York City’s “Covid czar” attended sex parties and drug-fueled raves.

Dr. Jay Varma, who led the city’s coronavirus response as senior adviser to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, admitted to the pandemic promiscuity in secretly recorded conversations published by conservative podcaster Steven Crowder.

“It’s so funny,” Varma said on tape, “because I did all this like deviant, sexual stuff while I was on TV.”

Varma said in another recorded conversation he and his wife rented a hotel room to host their own secret sex party with Ecstasy. “We … had to be kind of sneaky about it because hotels didn’t want people gathering there,” Varma said, adding his profile as the city’s lockdowner-in-chief called for extra discretion. “It was fun!”

Varma said in yet another recorded conversation he attended a sex party in August 2020 with “10 to 12 people,” which likely would have violated New York City’s rules when gatherings were routinely capped at 10 people.

Varma also talked about attending crowded underground dance parties in June 2021.

“We were all rolling, we were all taking molly and everyone was high,” he said. “But I was looking around,” he added, wondering “if anybody sees me and they’re going to be pissed because this was not Covid-friendly.”

Millions of New York City residents meanwhile struggled under the public health official’s aggressive lockdowns that permanently closed more than 5,000 businesses in Manhattan alone.

Videos made public by Crowder show Varma also bragging about making life “really f**king hard” for the residents resistant to coronavirus vaccination. “You can’t convince them,” Varma said. “You have to like, just pass laws that say, like, you got to do this. … So that’s what we do in public health.”

Crowder confronted Varma over the hidden footage in another video published last week, wherein Varma at first denied he attended crowded pandemic-era dance parties before claiming he was merely consulting for the city while violating lockdown measures.

“I was, at that time, I was purely consulting,” he said.

Varma is just the latest government official exposed for violating the deadly lockdown regimes imposed on the public four years ago. The list includes other prominent New York authorities. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo planned a Thanksgiving that violated his own limits on gatherings, and former New York City Mayor de Blasio broke social distancing measures to celebrate Democrats’ 2020 win. Constituent New Yorkers, however, were threatened with state punishment for gatherings of more than 10 people in November.

Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan’s email newsletter here.