Guest Post by Alex Berenson
A firefighter in Washington, DC recently contacted me about the city’s plans to require all firefighters to be vaccinated against Covid or fired. “That was my line in the sand,” he wrote. “I’ve been quiet throughout this whole COVID-19 nonsense but now I’m speaking out.”
Washington firefighters are also emergency medical technicians or paramedics, so a city order requiring health-care workers to receive at least one vaccine dose by September 30 covers them.
The deadline is four weeks from today. Hundreds of firefighters are trying to decide what to do.
The anti-mandate firefighters estimate that about 40 percent of the department has not been vaccinated. Without them, the department will barely be able to function and will likely have to go to what firefighters call a three- or two-platoon system.
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