More Than Half of New York’s Firefighters Will Refuse Vaccine

“They are more familiar with the coronavirus than they are with the vaccine.”

They’ll take their chances with the virus — find different test subjects

Editor’s note: NY already has a very good level of herd immunity. Why in the world would healthy people want to stab themselves with a rushed, first-of-its-kind concoction now??


A recent internal FDNY survey revealed that more than half of the department’s firefighters won’t take the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available.

In the past three days, the Uniformed Firefighters Association polled 2,053 members, and around 55 percent of them said they wouldn’t get vaccinated for the virus, Andy Ansbro, the union president, told the New York Post. Those polled make up around a quarter of the the union’s 8,200 active members.

Last month, an FDNY memo stated the department would not mandate firefighters and EMS workers take the COVID vaccine. As of Friday, the FDNY had more than 130 positive cases, with at least six firehouses having three or more cases, a department source told the Post.

In a joint statement last month, the  International Association of Fire Chiefs, the International Association of Fire Fighters, the National Association of State Fire Marshals, and the National Volunteer Fire Council urged governors and state health officials to give top priority to firefighters and EMS workers when it came to receiving the vaccine. The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation announced Tuesday that at least 104 first responders have died from the virus this year.

A Centers for Disease Control advisory panel, however, recommended last week that health care workers and long-term care facility workers and residents be placed in the 1a priority group for the vaccine.

Ansbro told the Post that many FDNY firefighters in their 30s and 40s aren’t as threatened by COVID-19, especially if they’ve already battled the virus. He added that he would be getting vaccinated.

“A lot of them probably feel they are not in a risk category, they are younger, stronger, they may have already had it and gotten through it, and feel it’s not their problem,” Ansbro told the Post. “They are more familiar with the coronavirus than they are with the vaccine.”

Source: Firehouse

4 Comments
  1. Undecider says

    No one needs any vaccine. Who wants to be sterilized?

  2. Saint Jimmy (Russian American) says

    Burn down CNN.

    1. Styx says

      May I enquire if you are making an effort to appear to be an absolutely hopeless pillock or is that a God-given talent?

      But then again, you and double O forty (also known as “chechas”) are “two boots a pair”, aren’t “we” ..

  3. Aurum Cimex says

    Only 55%? That means 45% of firefighters are idiots.

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