With plenty of New Yorkers hitting the beach and pools this weekend for the unofficial start to summer, city officials are still contesting with a shortage of lifeguards needed to meet its summer needs. Mayor Eric Adams on Friday announced an easing of testing requirements needed to perform the lifeguard role in hopes of filling that shortage. "These rules have restricted lifeguards hiring and prevented the city from doing everything we feel that is necessary to hire more lifeguards," Adams said Friday. Just like IQ scores, if people can't measure up, just lower the fucking standards. Welcome to third world USA.