The Issue: Members of the FDNY and NYPD who have called out sick as the vaccine mandate takes effect.

I read with horror your article on 26 FDNY stations closing (“Getting burned by vax standoff,” Oct. 31).

What a disgrace these firemen are for not getting vaccinated. It is one of the most selfish and anti-civil-service acts I can imagine.

Just one COVID-infected fireman breathing in a room of the elderly or immunocompromised can kill them. Yet they refuse to get vaccinated.

These firemen are misinformed, too. Natural immunity fades as time passes and does not apply to new strains in most cases.

Fire stations are closing not because of bad policies but because of bad civil servants. Personally, I welcome their firing. They are a threat to public health.

Joseph Bedford

Hudson

Under the premise of public safety, our esteemed mayor caused the shutdown of 26 firehouses and has the NYPD and Sanitation Department working understaffed. These people were fine working during the height of the pandemic unvaccinated.

Mayor de Blasio has gone too far. Allow weekly testing. Let’s get the city back to work.

Deirdre Harvey

Valley Stream

I have the utmost respect for members of the FDNY. I also think that de Blasio has lacked spine, leadership and real action on key issues. However, I don’t think he’s to blame here.

I’m absolutely baffled by the holdouts in the FDNY who won’t get the jab. The COVID vaccine is certainly safer than what they face on the job. Even if they had COVID, the vaccine adds another layer of protection to natural immunity.

The actions of the unvaxxed members of the FDNY are putting unnecessary stress on their colleagues who need to cover for them and on the people they serve, who pay for their salaries and pensions.

It’s time for these folks to step up. It’s not that big of an ask, and it’s in their blood to do the right thing.

John Dudzinsky

Brooklyn

Stop the madness. End the vaccine mandate for the FDNY.

With job security threats, the administration was able to coerce vaccination from many who were reluctant or outright opposed to getting jabbed.

There is no doubt that those forced to go on unpaid leave are determined to not get the vaccine for whatever personal reasons, at great jeopardy to their own financial security.

Administration officials must now end this mandate before an inevitable tragedy grips this city because it chose to leave firehouses understaffed when ready, willing and able firefighters sit at home on unpaid leaves.

Laurie Galioto

The Bronx

It’s disturbing when our civil servants and elected officials defy the rules.

Vaccine and mask mandates were instituted as a last resort because too many people have refused to follow common-sense rules that would reduce the danger of getting sick and dying from COVID.

It is time that government workers swallow their personal feelings. If they do not like the rules, then they should resign from their jobs.

This goes especially for elected officials as well as safety and medical personnel. They are role models and they must an example for the rest of society

Alan Podhaizer

Brooklyn

I understand the feeling that firefighters have about the mandate — but that is as far as it goes.

The firefighters work for the city of New York, not their assigned firehouse or their union.

The duly elected mayor of that city has mandated that firefighters and police officers get the vaccine. Simple as that. Get the vaccine, you cowards. You have to meet certain conditions to become firefighters, this is just one more.

Firefighters call themselves the Bravest. Prove it: Get the vaccine. Any deaths that occur due to your cowardice are on you, not the mayor.

Stephen Valentini

Bonita Springs, Fla.

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