As of 7:30 a.m. Saturday, New York City locked up 26 firehouses due to manpower shortages blamed on the COVID vaccine mandate.
GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, where five of the now-closed stations are located. If someone dies, she points the blame at Komrade de Blasio.
As of 7:30am this morning, 26 @FDNY companies are closed including 5 in my district due to @NYCMayor locking out unvaccinated firefighters. If someone dies due to a slower emergency response, it’s on Bill de Blasio and his overreaching mandates. I hope this fool fixes it ASAP!
🚨As of 7:30am this morning, 26 @FDNY companies are closed including 5 in my district due to @NYCMayor locking out unvaccinated firefighters.
If someone dies due to a slower emergency response, it’s on Bill de Blasio and his overreaching mandates. I hope this fool fixes it ASAP!
— Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) October 30, 2021
Just as a reminder, Komrade Bill gave New York City’s essential workers, including firefighters, a hero’s ticker-tape parade in July 2021. Today, many are fired. My, how the times have changed.
And for what? Because they won’t get vaccinated against a virus that has a 98.4% survival rate in the U.S. and is likely even higher for younger, healthy firemen.
It seems logical that de Blasio would WANT people out and about, considering we’ve known since May 2020 that 66% of all New York COVID cases were among people who locked down. Instead, he has mandated that anyone in New York City hoping to eat in a restaurant, go to a live show, or enter a bar, gym, or museum has to show proof of vaccination. That means the unvaxxed aren’t going out. They are staying home, where the virus spreads and thrives.
“Twenty-six companies out of service is an unconscionable number,” GOP Councilman Joe Borelli, of Staten Island stated. “The firefighters who are unable to work have all been tested within the week and are not COVID positive, and I doubt New Yorkers care about the vaccine status of the person applying defibrillators to their chest.”
The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) declared that the closings are not forever, insisting they are “temporarily out of service.”
Seventy-two percent of the FDNY has been vaccinated, and 84% of the New York Police Dept. has been inoculated as of Friday’s deadline.
“People that aren’t retiring or quitting right out are gonna be on unpaid leave like myself. There’s not going to be enough bodies,” stated a 23-year-old EMT who spoke on condition of anonymity. “You know New York City, the call volume is high and the manpower, in general, is bad, without all this going on. We are always needing more people. It’s going to be a little crazy.”
If you thought the crime in NYC was bad, wail until 16% of the NYPD is off the job. And be careful with your candles this holiday season, the FDNY response time just got longer.
Let’s Go Brandon!
Source: PJ Media
