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What Next: Do Vaccine Mandates Work?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 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. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Comparisonerichannel4.com slash verify. When I asked Eric Latch how he ended up marching

0:58.0

across the Brooklyn Bridge the other day, shoulder to shoulder with city workers protesting

1:02.9

the mayor's COVID vaccine mandate, he said, it all started with this flyer. Let me see if

1:08.4

I can pull it up for us and I can just read from it.

1:15.1

Eric writes for the New Yorker, a firefighter had forwarded him this note, which was an invitation,

1:21.7

really. It said NYC workers' anti-mandate march for choice, Monday, October 25, 11,

1:31.9

30am, where your job t-shirt makes signs, bring your families. There are tens of thousands

1:36.5

of us. This is our last stand. Dramatic. Yeah, it was sort of unclear at the time. I was

1:42.5

talking as firefighter and it was like, is anybody going to go to this?

1:49.3

In our health, we today massive crowds of protesters shutting down the fabled Brooklyn

1:53.7

Bridge today. They are enraged over New York City's Friday deadline for city workers to

1:59.3

get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs.

2:03.1

The answer to this question turned out to be yes. Thousands of New York municipal workers

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