He is the reason though. Since well before the pandemic began, he's been pandering to militant woke groups and smothering the spirit of this city, trying to turn it into a Marxist utopia where everything is now so heavily regulated it's no longer worth striving to do anything. He even passed into law that you can't put a net over a fruit tree in your backyard unless the mesh is a certain size, otherwise you can be fined thousands of dollars.