Tue Nov 16, 2021 – 1:54 pm EST
Editor’s note: This was originally written and published on November 1.
(Family Research Council) – On the calendar, November 1 is All Saints Day – but in cities across America, it’s “all shots day.” As vaccine mandates kick into effect in places like New York, the morning everyone was dreading arrived. Firefighters, ambulance drivers, police, and even waste management employees will have to prove they’ve been at least half-vaccinated or be forced into unpaid leave.
While Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) insists that he isn’t having “second thoughts” about the dictate, plenty of locals are. Vinny Argo, who lives across the street from one of the 26 closed fire stations, looked at Brooklyn Engine Co. 284 and shook his head. “We’re going to toast like marshmallows,” he warned.
Those feelings were mutual at FDNY headquarters, where spokesmen tried to tamp down the fears that this mandate will literally cost people their lives. The department’s Jim Long, who was sent to put out the PR fire, tried to reassure people that the closings weren’t permanent, and that some stations were just “temporarily out of service.”
That did little to comfort
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