As mandate kicks in, ranks of unvaccinated New York police, firefighters dwindle

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared his coronavirus vaccination order for emergency responders a success on Monday, with no disruption to city services, despite a sickout by some firefighters who officials said were protesting the mandate.

The mayor's Oct. 20 order, which police and firefighter union leaders said would cause staff shortages, led to an 11th-hour rush of inoculations that shrank the ranks of the unvaccinated as officials in the largest U.S. city began enforcing the mandate on Monday morning.

The vaccination rate for city's workforce of 378,000 employees, including teachers, corrections officers and other city workers who faced previous orders, rose to at least 91% over the weekend from 86% on Thursday, de Blasio said.

"Time and time again we put the mandates in place and they've worked," de Blasio, a Democrat, told a briefing.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-prepares-fallout-vaccine-mandate-100632177.html

[Sneederbunk]

1. Talk is cheap. Losing your job is expensive.

[Shermann]

3. Especially if you are a hot-shot conservative commentator

Oh wait, none of them stood their ground during this tyranny. Never mind.

[IronLionZion]

7. Some of the radio hosts died for their beliefs

I encourage all unvaccinated conservatives to achieve "natural immunity" the old fashioned way.

[Shermann]

8. Second-tier manure spreaders maybe

Your Hannities and your Carlsons rolled up their sleeves as they were told.

[rpannier]

11. Especially if you're nearing retirement

Would suck to lose that job, and the pension

[Probatim]

2. So I did the math - losing my pension over a shot wasn't worth it

But I acted like a two-year old and got everyone's attention, so we'll call it a win.

[rpannier]

12. Sound like the making of a Master Card commercial

Losing my 110k a year job -110k
Losing my 50k a year pension -1 mil
Acting like a two year old, priceless
For everything else there's mastercard

[LiberalFighter]

15. In most cases, you don't lose a pension that is part of the plan.

A pension plan is vested when a person has 5 years. But they don't receive their pension usually until they are a certain age. And if they retire at an earlier eligible age it would be at a reduced rate.


Now their health care plan might be a different issue. Might not have health care after they retire and before age 65. And when they do reach 65 might not have anything from NYC to cover the rest.

[DENVERPOPS]

4. I remember the time when

firefighters/EMT's had to fight city hall for the city to pay for the Hepatitis B vaccine when it became available.......
It was a three part vaccination, costing 150 bucks for all three vaccinations.

These were the front line people who were getting puked on, deficated on, Peed on, coughed on, bled on, accidentally stuck with needles, etc etc etc

[Roy Rolling]

13. Yep

I was one of those medics, fortunate enough to be able to pay for myself. Experienced EMTs were being paid minimum wage to save people’s’ lives.

Getting the Hep B vaccination wasn’t just too expensive, we also felt it was a job requirement that should be paid by the employer. The principle was important, but to the “kids” I saw aspiring to be medics and nurses, they were sorely underpaid, too. Again, not me. I was fortunate but shocked at how little lifesavers we’re paid.

[DENVERPOPS]

16. It is appalling

to see the firefighters and police in Denver paid a far greater amount and benefits than the Denver government Paramedics.
In Denver, like many large cities in the U.S., the paramedics make a lot of calls every single shift. Calls where they personally have to make life or death decisions many times over in a single day.

[eilen]

17. Honestly, while I feel that truck drivers are very important

it does gall me that I am paid less than a driver as a cardiac RN with over 20 years experience.

[Runningdawg]

5. Let's see how long they hold out after they get the foreclosure notice.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Seems sincerely held cray beliefs vanish in the face of unemployment. Who knew?

[johnthewoodworker]

9. Scientific morons need to get there shots or go hide in the basement.

[empedocles]

10. Have there been any really strong, government employee holdouts against

a mandate?

Seems like every holdout threat is, in the news at least, very threatening.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Won't they be surprised when the sun still comes up

and they put their anger over this is the rearview mirror.