Do Vaccine Mandates Work?
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In mid-October, Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced that New York City municipal workers would have just nine days to get the COVID vaccine or risk being put on unpaid leave. Thousands of workers showed up the next week to protest the mandate. A week after the hammer came down, did Mayor DeBlasio correctly call their bluff?
Guest: Eric Lach, staff writer for The New Yorker.
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| 1:04.9 | When I asked Eric Latch, how he ended up marching across the Brooklyn Bridge the other day, |
| 1:10.1 | shoulder to shoulder with city workers, protesting the mayor's COVID vaccine mandate, he said, |
| 1:15.7 | it all started with this flyer. Eric writes for the New Yorker, a firefighter |
| 1:27.4 | had forwarded him this note, which was an invitation, really. |
| 1:31.6 | It said, NYC workers' anti-mandate march for choice, Monday, October 25, 11, 30am, |
| 1:41.7 | where your job t-shirt makes signs, bring your families, there are tens of thousands of us, |
| 1:46.5 | this is our last stand. Dramatic. Yeah, it's sort of unclear at the time, |
| 1:51.7 | I was talking as firefighter and it was like, is anybody going to go to this? |
| 1:58.6 | In our health lead today, massive crowds of protesters shutting down the fabled Brooklyn |
| 2:03.3 | Bridge today, they are enraged over New York City's Friday deadline for city workers to get |
| 2:09.3 | vaccinated or risk losing their jobs. The answer to this question turned out to be, yes. |
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