Well in the video she said they thought it was all political and they were young enough and strong enough to survive.I don't know why this is such a strong sentiment among first responders, but it is. Of course these guys and gals are the ones that run towards what everyone else runs from. I was a volunteer firefighter for 30+ years, so I have some insight to their mindset. To enter a burning structure with temperatures over 400 on the floor, and 1500 at the ceiling with zero visibility tests one metal.
Due to my years as a volunteer firefighter, plus my daughter, and now both of my grandsons are full-time firefighter/EMTs. They have seen many COVID patients in bad shape as part of their job. Yet there is a mindset in the firehouse which have some of the lowest vaccination rates of any group.
I offered $1,000 cash to each as an incentive, and both turned it down.
The oldest grandson (20) is also on the county wide USAR team, and is a swift water rescue technician. This is a team of about 30 people from departments across the county. They were very active during the flooding from Fred a couple of weeks ago.
Yesterday, departments from multiple counties attended the funeral of a member of that USAR team that died of COVID. He was a 28-year-old firefighter/EMT, with a baby on the way.
This past weekend the oldest stopped by the house to borrow something, and it was obvious he was upset about the death of a fellow team member, and told us he had just received the first dose of the COVID vaccine. And told us to tell no one. Only we and his mother know.
WTF the rest of the world doesn't care about US politics the rest of the world of all regimes took steps, the virus doesn't care about politics or religion, ,