“We are finished,” one longtime Manhattan business operator told The Post, while lamenting both mandates and the “army of morons” enforcing the city’s vaccine protocols.

The city’s well-publicized vaccine mandate, which went into effect Monday, has deputized “thousands” of public employees to roam the city as COVID cops and issue fines of up to $5,000.

“This is another feel-good business mandate with little impact on COVID that some will follow, some will ignore, but all will be subject to a fresh round of violations and lawsuits,” City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), told The Post. .

The city’s COVID vaccine mandate, meanwhile, has drawn backlash from the public employee unions whose members are now charged with the chore of barging into businesses to demand vaccine mandate compliance.

The city’s enforcement plan enlists agents from 13 different departments, ranging from parks employees to sanitation workers.

These new COVID cops are charged with observing “the business interaction with the customer,” including asking for “proof of identity to match proof of vaccine.” The inspectors would issue warnings and violations for lack of compliance, according to the city’s 18-page enforcement training presentation obtained by The Post.