More NYC workers get jabs amid mandate; 1 in 6 still refuse

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — One in six New York City municipal workers remained unvaccinated after Friday’s deadline to show proof they’ve gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the city said Saturday.

A last-minute rush of jabs boosted the vaccination rate to 83% among police officers, firefighters, garbage collectors and other city workers covered by the mandate as of 8 p.m. Friday, up from 76% a day earlier.

The more than 26,000 workers who haven’t complied with the requirement will be put on unpaid leave starting Monday, leaving the Big Apple bracing for the possibility of closed firehouses, fewer police and ambulances and mounting trash.

Vaccination rates for the city’s fire and sanitation departments jumped significantly Friday as workers rushed to meet the deadline for the mandate and an extra incentive: Workers who get a shot by Friday will get $500.



FILE - New York City firefighter emergency medical services personnel are vaccinated against COVID-19 at the FDNY Fire Academy in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. More than 26,000 of New York City's municipal workers remained unvaccinated after the deadline on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, to show proof they've gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)


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[rockfordfile]

1. good

[Enter stage left]

2. 17% of this country should leave. Go to Russia...

they have an incredible death rate from Covid-19. Feel free to make them the worlds leaders from deaths by f'n idiots.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. A year ago, I would have PAID to get a shot of the Sputnik-V vaccine.

I wanted a vaccine in my arm so bad. And, I figure Sputnik-V is probably made from formulae stolen from western pharmaceutical companies.

I guess Russians are just as likely to be antivaxxers as Americans. I thought that if Putin said, "Roll up your sleeves", nobody would resist. He can be persuasive.

[FreepFryer]

3. Selfish assholes & everybody here knows it including them. Fuck em if they won't do the right thing

[BlueIdaho]

4. Cleaning out the shallow end of the gene pool.

Ask me if I care, go ahead and ask me.

[Steelrolled]

5. 1 out of 6 is way too high IMHO - if their job depends on getting it.

I can't imagine why they do it.

[Walleye]

6. And once they get all these morons fired, vaccination rate will be 100%

[Cryptoad]

12. and they wont have any trouble,,,,

filling these positions,,,,,, these are good jobs

[Scrivener7]

7. Put them out of the job and I bet the Covid numbers will drop noticeably.

Every one of these morons is a vector.

[NYC Liberal]

8. The waiting list for these jobs is extremely long.

They will have little problem filling them

68,000 for the Department of Sanitation
53,000 for the NYPD
42,000 for the FDNY

And that was a few years ago.

https://www.silive.com/news/2016/08/how_many_are_on_wait_list_for.html

[llashram]

9. I don't care...let them die

just hope they don't infect anyone else if they get Covid.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I wish the press would stop using the word "jab".

It's not helping with people who have a genuine fear of needles. It is not descriptive of what happens when something is injected. No medical professional has ever "jabbed" me with a needle.

[brooklynite]

13. NYC employee vax rate now 91%

https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/nyc-vaccine-mandate-fdny-nypd-de-blasio-1.50407037?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[FakeNoose]

14. After what New Yorkers went through last year, how can anyone refuse the vaccine now?

I don't get it. Maybe some people are sleepwalking in Montana or Idaho, I don't know.

But My Lord! New York was the center of the worst nightmare with bodies piling up daily. The morgues couldn't even bury the bodies fast enough. That's how many were dying in New York. How can those police, EMS workers and firefighters deny it? How can they think it's not going to get them too?

[riversedge]

15. To the anti vaxers-it is all about their freedom to choose. Nothing about my/our freedom to be

free from the Covid. sickening.