I can't gift this article from the NY Times, but those who do subscribe can read it-long story, short:
A police sergeant nearly died of Covid and now he wants everyone to get vaccinated.
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"Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda"-cautionary tales from Survivors
"Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda"-cautionary tales from Survivors
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OMG - I was going to post this, too! Finally, someone 'gets' it. I was really surprised to read that the Leading Cause of Death for law enforcement in the USA for the past 2 years was covid-19.
It shouldn't surprise us that covid ran rampant among cops and firefighters. These are the exact guys who were intentionally recruited by Typhoid Donnie's campaign to help overturn the election; they groomed them for a long time. These guys got sucked in bad. Got to thinking they're too "manly" to wear one of those "face diapers" or get their shots.
@LinnieMae It doesn't surprise me at all. My grandfather was the deputy chief of our local Fire Department, and for close to 50 yrs, whenever there was an emergency, he was there in the centre of it. Granted, he wasn't the type to get sucked in by any sort of political schemes, he was just a pragmatic helping sort by nature, and when something went wrong, he'd be the first to step forward to say, "Let's see if I can help fix this," whether that meant running into a burning building, helping the local police chase down the town's first bank robber, (he just happened to be in the bank at the time), fishing floaters out of Lake Erie, or visiting his sick grandkid in the hospital when I was down with bronchitis again.
If the current breed have any old-timers like Gramps training them, then they're volunteering to do the dirty work, because somebody has to do it. But then, they've got a lot of stupid to fight against that wasn't around in the old days. How can common sense stand up to Faux News and Joe Rogan?