IAFF: Edzo to Brother Jakes, Nyet

No help for Boston over Mayor Wu’s vaccine mandate

“Jake” is another name for a Boston firefighter and they came sooty helmet in hand to brother 718 member and IAFF president Edzo Kelly for help with Mayor Michelle Wu’s vaccine mandate for all Boston city workers.

Both Massachusetts and Boston are being slammed by Covid-19, again.

Boston.com reports:

• COVID-19 hospitalizations are still spiking
• highest since the first surge in spring of 2020
• “every corner of our healthcare system is gasping for air”
• hospitalizations disproportionately among unvaccinated residents

But Edzo sent his homeboyz packing, happy they are not.

And they have taken to social media to express their dismay.

Ouch.

Politico Reports, “Boston First Responders United, a group of emergency medical technicians, firefighters and police … is “going to fight this through every legal means possible” and is already talking to an attorney.”

The success rate of public employees legally contesting Covid-19 vaccine mandates is right up there with the win rate for the January 6 rioters, zero or near enough.

Fighting the mandate outright was always a loser, something Edzo learned firsthand after the FDNY debacle.

Did Edzo learn his lesson?

Seems so though the jakes haven’t.

As long as Covid-19 vaccines lessen disease severity and hospitalization rates they will be essential in the ongoing public health battle.

Contesting them on spurious personal grounds including under the cover of democratic values, is a fool’s errand and ethical abandonment.

Doubly so for firefighters and paramedics.