EXCLUSIVE: On 10-3, the Seattle Fire Dept had an astonishing five aid units, three fire engines & two medic units out of service due to lack of staff.

What could be behind this? The COVID vaccine mandate.

SFD staff must turn in their paperwork on Monday or be fired.
I can confirm that 55 vaccine verification forms have not been submitted. 54 are uniformed, 1 is a civillian.

SFD is currently offering contingency staffing plans if those 55 do not submit their vaccine paperwork. It would severely hurt the SFD.

Here are the plans...
-Cancelling all non-essential training, community events & limiting annual building inspection focus to schools.

-Prioritizing which units could be placed out-of-service through analysis of response routes to ensure City coverage by SFD remains in place.
-Adjusting response models to various incident types to best serve residents while below normal staffing levels.

-Activating their Resource Management Center to monitor response data in real-time.

Terminated staff would include firefighters, EMTs, and chief officers.
This would occur on top of losing up to 200+ Seattle police officers if the remaining employees don't turn in their vaccination forms.

About 100 officers asked for accommodations. The pattern has been to reject accommodations. If SPD loses 100 officers, there will be chaos.
SPD lost 355 officers since last year (about a third of the force). It has only 1,048 deployable officers. It should be about 1500 for a city this size; one that is currently experiencing a surge in violent crime.

Can Seattle afford to lose this many firefighters and police? No.

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12 Oct
This is what a partisan hit piece looks like. @KING5Seattle hopes to be Seattle's woke local news network. They frame news through race.

Despite Dems gerrymandering to gut almost every Republican district out of existence in WA, they focus on a complaint from one Dem activist.
The complaint is that one district map submitted by a Republican on the commission, @paulgraveswa, is racist for "cutting essentially Black and Brown neighborhoods out of the map."

Except all it does is make a previous district more diverse, which makes it more competitive.
Graves and the other Republican commissioner have tried to make almost all districts actually competitive. Democrats have said they want to do to the opposite. That's abuse -- the kind that progressives used to claim to be against.
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12 Oct
WA is preparing to lose up to 5% of hospital staff next week (approx. 7500 people). One hospital will lose half its physical therapy dept. Services will be postponed.

The folks labeled heroes, working unvaccinated for 18 months, suddenly pose a COVID threat & must be fired.
I said this at the start, I'm willing to bet that Gov Inslee will rescind his order at the last minute and claim enough people were vaccinated.

He'll pretend he didn't force thousands into a decision they weren't ready for or wanted... all under threat of job loss.
One of the two hospitals in Grays Harbor County has already been forced to close an entire floor because of a lack of staff, according to Dr. Julie Buck, the Grays Harbor County Emergency Medical Services Program Director. -KIRO 7 TV
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4 Oct
BREAKING: WA Dept of Children, Youth, & Families sent out a letter today to terminate unvaccinated workers. It says they will lose their jobs on October 18.

As of 9-20, the vaccination rate at @waDCYF’s main department office was only 50.21% (of 4,075).
As of that same date, they rejected most of the requested religious accommodations — they only deemed 87 of the 260 requests they reviewed (out of 318 total) coming from truly religious people.

They judged the rest as liars but are not qualified to do so.
At their Echo Glen, Green Hill, and Naselle locations, they’ve so far refused to accommodate any religious exemptions.

Roughly 70-75% of those employees were unvaccinated as of 09-20.
Read 4 tweets
27 Sep
Here's a good example of bias from @NeilMacFarquhar in the NYT on the historic homicide spike: "The significant rise in homicides has roughly coincided with the 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic."

No mention of the defund police movement, which also coincided with the surge.
He doesn't want you thinking Dems or BLM have anything to do with it.

Instead: "There is no simple explanation for the steep rise. A number of key factors are driving the violence, including the economic & social toll taken by the pandemic & a sharp increase in gun purchases."
But Neil will use *someone else* to bring up unnamed "social justice protests" as maybe having played a role.

He does, however, personally tie the spike to COVID and guns. Lost your job during COVID? Well, you apparently murdered people. Gangs? No direct mention either.
Read 7 tweets
21 Sep
I wish Rep. Pramila Jayapal a happy birthday — even as she celebrates in a small, poorly ventilated room surrounded by maskless friends.

She gets to do this. You do not.
Wear masks!
I’m told this is outside by her office. Looks inside to me but I’ll go with it.
Read 4 tweets
12 Sep
NEW: Students were set to wear red, white & blue colors at their football game to honor the lives lost on 9/11.

But school staff pulled the plug.

The principal said it could “unintentionally cause offense to some who see it differently.”
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The school staff "explained that red white and blue was going to be seen as racially insensitive and may affect people in a way that we will not understand and for that reason that we were to change our theme."
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The school took this post off their Instagram. I’m told King County Sheriff’s deputies were on site checking student IDs. Don’t know why.
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