Over 9,000 New York City employees, including thousands of police officers, firefighters, and sanitation workers are not at their jobs today due to Mayor Bill de Blasio Covid-19 vaccine mandate, which went into effect Monday morning.
According to number provided by the Mayor’s Office, 91% of the city’s 378,000 employees are in compliance with the vaccine mandate, 9,000 are on unpaid leave, and 12,000 have filed for exemptions. Several thousand others have been accused of faking being sick.
The unpaid leave designations of so many first responders have many New Yorkers concerned about what impact they will have on response time for the NYPD and NYFD, whose departments are now severely understaffed.
“That’s the question everyone is asking: How many more minutes will it take to respond, how many more lives will be lost as a result?” a cop in Manhattan wondered.
“There’s a correlation between time and mortality that a lot of people in City Hall don’t understand,” the officer added. “Unfortunately, the only way they’re going to get the message is by seeing the numbers rise and rise. And seeing how crime is already on the rise, they really need to look at their priorities and decide if this is a good idea, and they need to do it soon.”
Mass retirements are expected to take place in both the NYPD and NYFD due to the mandates, with police officers and firefighters preferring retirement over being forced to be administered a vaccine they don’t believe they need.
An even larger segment of NYC’s first responders have chosen to be placed on unpaid leave rather than get jabbed, including over 8,000 members of the NYPD, 3,7000 FDNY employees including firefighters and EMTs, and nearly 2,000 sanitation workers.
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lets start w the fire dept. – they temporarily reduce all non emergency dept jobs – lets see, maybe we really dont need that many ?
garbage – they will outsource all the big stops like public schools..yeshivos.. to private companies at half the cost -good idea
police – maybe less tickets , and non emergency can be outsourced to security..companies
time will tell how much we need & how much is overkill
So much easier in a place with a (real) monarchy or a dictator or even a chief warlord – then you can blame them when the government messes up. But New York City is a democracy with free elections, so there is no one to blame but the people who elected the fool.
Over the weekend the number who went to get vaccinated went up significantly.
Faking illness, phony religious exemptions, not wanting to follow the law; not sure these are the qualities I want to find in a policeman, fire fighter etc
Hopefully there’ll be an incident by Gracie Mansion which requires emergency services, and once they don’t show it’ll cause a reversal. Otherwise, we’re all victims of a Liberal “let them eat cake” world.