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Docket #0263 - Hearing to address the public health declaration of 2020
A
Please
silence
your
cell
phones
and
other
devices,
and
please
notice
that
face
masks
are
still
required
in
boston
city
hall,
staff
and
visitors
must
wear
a
face
covering
at
all
times
in
this
building.
I'd
also
like
to
remind
everyone.
This
is
our
first
public
hearing
since
covid19
stopped
in
person
hearings.
A
A
We
will
also
take
public
testimony
and
would
appreciate
it
if
you
sign
in
to
testify
or
to
registered
attendance.
Many
of
you
probably
already
have
because
we
had
people
outside
in
the
hallway
when
you
came
in
at
the
start
of
your
testimony,
I'll
remind
you
to
state
your
name
address
in
your
affiliation.
A
The
order
for
a
hearing
to
address
the
public
health
declaration
of
2020,
whereas
the
governor
of
the
commonwealth
declared
a
state
of
emergency
across
massachusetts
in
march
2020
and
whereas
the
governor
of
the
commonwealth
lifted
the
state
of
emergency
in
june
2021
and
whereas
the
boston
public
health
commission
declared
a
public
health
emergency
on
march
15,
2020
and
extended
this
declaration
on
april.
24
2020,
the
city
of
boston,
still
remains
in
a
state
of
emergency.
A
So
thank
you.
I
am
joined
here
by
my
colleague,
councillor,
frank
baker.
I
will
read.
um
I
do
have
a
letter
from
counselor
bach
that
I
will
read
into
the
record.
Dear
chair
murphy.
Please
excuse
my
absence
from
today's
hearing
regarding
the
public
health
declarat
declaration
of
2020.,
the
public
health
and
safety
of
boston
residents
is
the
utmost
priority
of
all
of
us
in
city
government.
A
A
We
also
have
a
letter
from
president
flynn.
Dear
madam
chair,
due
to
a
medical
appointment,
I
am
unable
to
attend
today's
hearing
in
person
on
docket0263
hearing
to
address
the
public
health
declaration
of
2020.
Please
know
that
I
will
be
reviewing
the
recording
of
the
hearing
and
my
staff
will
be
taking
notes
of
the
discussion.
Should
you
have
any
questions,
please
do
not
hesitate
to
contact
my
office
at
ed.flynn,
boston.gov
or
617-635-3203.
A
B
Good
morning,
everybody
thank
you.
Thank
you,
council,
murphy,
for
holding
this
hearing
today,
and
uh
it
should
be
noted
that
this
is
the
first
in-person
hearing
that
we've
had
since
we've
closed
up.
So
it's
taken
us
two
and
a
half
years
to
get
here.
This
is
a
monumentous
occasion
in
front
of
us
right
here
appreciate
what
you,
what
you're
doing
here
um
this
this
issue
is
personal
to
me.
B
B
Excuse
me
so
for
me:
I'm
not
sure
what
the
panel
is
going
to
look
like
from
the
administration.
I
would
like
to
have
policy
people
here,
because
if
this
is
the
policy
of
the
city,
we
should
be
talking
to
policy
people,
not
people
um
I'll
leave
that
alone
anyways.
I
appreciate
the
the
people
that
have
been
in
their
offices
and
in
their
cruises
and
in
there
and
in
their
trucks
and
in
their
job,
during
this
entire
entire,
um
this
entire
two
years
that
we've
had
here
and
it's
been
difficult
on
all
of
us.
B
We
still
don't
know,
what's
going
to
happen
with
all
those
people
now
these
decisions
were
made
on
december.
They
come
out
on
december
20th,
five
days
before
christmas,
so
the
stress
that
it
caused
in
my
life
over
the
christmas
holiday
in
the
last
couple
of
months
has
is
nothing
compared
to
the
stress
that
the
families
of
the
people
that
were
on
the
other
side
of
this
uh
misguided
decision,
my
opinion,
my
words.
B
So
the
one
thing
I
think
that
I'd
like
to
have
a
sense
of
here
when
we're
done
with
all
this
is
messaging
coming
from
across
the
hall,
is
about
how
we're
going
to
fight
this
tooth
and
nail?
How
much
more
are
we
going
to
put
the
city
of
boston
through?
How
much
more
are
we
going
to
put
our
workers
through?
How
much
are
we
going
to
send
and
spend
in
that
city
budget?
B
So
I'm
going
to,
I
call
on
mayor
wu
to
drop
this
mandate.
Please
drop
this
mandate,
so
we
can
all
get
on
with
our
lives,
or
at
least,
let's
figure
out
a
way
that
we
can
get
back
to
the
understandings
that
we
had
pre-december
20th
and
get
back
to
the
testing
option.
If,
in
fact,
we
end
up,
god
forbid,
going
back
into
the
red
zone
or
another
virus
or
whatever.
C
We
know
the
work
is
not
over
to
keep
our
community
safe
and
protect
against
the
next
surge
or
the
one
after
that,
but
as
restrictions
begin
to
end
in
neighboring
cities
and
states,
it's
important
to
have
transparency
about
how
these
decisions
are
being
made
and
to
ensure
in
all
conversations
about
reopening,
we
are
centering
the
most
vulnerable
among
us
and
using
equity
lines.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you
so
before
I
um
start
with
the
first
panel
I'll
just
say
my
statement,
my
opening
statement,
my
office
alone
has
received
hundreds
and
hundreds
of
emails
and
calls
around
the
covid19
mandates
over
the
last
two
months.
I
hope
that
this
hearing
provides
an
opportunity
for
all
parties
to
answer
the
questions
that
many
of
us
have.
A
The
kovid
vaccine
has
been
an
important
and
effective
tool
to
keep
ourselves
and
our
communities
safe,
testing
wearing
masks,
social,
distancing
and
frequent
hand
washing
have
also
been
powerful
tools
to
tools
to
help
stop
the
spread
of
this
disease,
the
be
together
vaccine
passport
mandate
has
been
lifted,
and
there
is
talk
in
the
paper
that
the
mask
mandate
will
be
lifted
soon.
Also,
other
towns
around
us
have
been
voting
on
changes
to
their
public
health
policies
and
restrictions
are
being
left
lifted.
Based
on
their
data
that
they're
sharing.
A
I
will
end
by
saying
that
boston,
covid19
dashboard
on
the
public
health
commission
website
has
been
greatly
improved
since
our
last
hearing
a
couple
weeks
ago.
The
data
is
more
detailed
and
updated.
More
frequently,
so
I
do
appreciate
that
we
know
that
the
data
changes
so
quickly
and
big
decisions
are
being
made
based
on
that
data,
people's
livelihoods
included.
A
D
Good
morning,
thank
you.
Thank
you.
I'm
madam
chair
committee
on
the
public
health
and
homelessness
recovery.
We
appreciate
uh
being
here
in
person
um
allowing
us
to
do
this.
Councilman
baker,
councilman
warrell.
We
thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank
you
for
what
you
do
you
so
eloquently
just
put
um
that
we've
been
on
this
roller
coaster.
D
Ride
we've
got
have
members
of
our
department
who
have
been
working
two
years
in
the
beginning
of
this
uh
unvaccinated
a
year
ago,
unvaccinated
six
weeks
ago,
unvaccinated,
but
now
turning
around
and
going
to
terminate
them
when
the
numbers
are
dropping
and
and
seems
to
be
going
away
and
and
we're
praying
and
hoping
that
that
does
happen,
but
um
for
us
to
be
here
in
person,
we
thank
you.
Thank
you
from
local
718.
I
am
joined
with.
D
I
have
my
vice
president
johnny
sarro,
my
legislation,
legislative
agent,
uh
randy
greeley
and
our
attorney
leah
beralt
with
us
um
to
give
you
a
timeline
on
what
we've
we've
been
doing
all
this
whole
time.
So
on
that
again,
I
thank
you
for
your
time.
I
thank
you
for
your
work
that
you
put
here
um
and
I'll
allow
leah
to
run
through
the
timeline.
My
name
is
john
sores,
I'm
the
president
of
local
718..
E
So
you
know
what
I
would
do
is
I
would
sort
of
start
from
2020
right
when
the
pandemic
was
first
coming
into.
You
know
our
country
in
the
city
and,
as
I'm
sure,
everybody's
well
aware
at
that
time
the
city
allowed
and
directed
almost
all
of
its
employees
to
work
from
home,
and
I
do
think
it's
said
all
the
time,
but
I
think
it's
always
worth
repeating
that
during
the
pandemic
to
present
day
when
most
city
employees
have
been
allowed
to
work
from
home
to
be
safe
to
be
accommodated
in
that
manner.
E
Public
safety
unions
have
never
had
that
opportunity.
They've
always
worked
day
in
day
out
worked
more
hours
than
they
normally
had
to
work,
and
that's
always
been
the
case.
There
is
no
option
for
especially
police
and
fire
to
work
from
home,
because
their
job
is
to
be
out
protecting
the
citizens,
and
so
they
were
not
afforded
those
same
privileges
that
other
employees
were
afforded.
E
E
So
when
you
kind
of
then
flash
forward
to
august
12
2021,
that
is
when
acting
mayor
jamie
jane
at
the
first
time,
put
out
a
coveted
policy,
and
I
did
put
a
copy
of
that
policy
behind
the
timeline
and
I'm
sure
you've
seen
it
before.
You
know
that
policy
had
a
covid19
vaccination
verification
portion.
E
Acting
mayor,
janie
did
meet
with
all
the
the
unions
and
specifically
for
the
fire
union
and
you'll.
Have
this
in
your
packet
in
september
of
2021,
the
bargaining
team
and
the
city
reached
an
agreement,
and
the
agreement
was
pretty
simple.
You
know
it
was
to
accept
acting
mayor,
janie's
policy
and,
in
exchange
to
make
it
easy
on
both
the
city
and
the
workers.
E
From
the
for
the
firefighters
perspective,
there
was
the
ability
to
have
in-station
testing,
as
opposed
to
testing
that
would
occur
at
different
sites
without
the
city
and
again,
that's
important
because
you
know
without
that
ability
firefighters
could
not
test
while
on
duty
without
disassembling
a
company
or
putting
something
out
of
service,
and
so
by
having
the
testing
at
the
stations.
It
was
beneficial
and
cost
saving
for
both
the
city
and
the
workers.
E
There
were
also
other
benefits
in
the
agreement
that
gave
time
off
replenished
sick
banks
for
covid,
and
you
know,
as
I'm
sure,
you've
heard
or
as
I'm
sure
you
were
aware
of
several
other
city
unions,
also
signed
similar
agreements.
We
were
one
of
the
only
ones
to
have
in-station
testing
that
was
signed
under
wu,
but
the
other
unions
had
the
same
benefits,
including
the
extra
sick
time
in
october
of
2021
local
718
ratified
the
agreement
that
was
reached
between
it
and
the
city
signed
it
and
formalized
it.
E
They
worked
cooperatively
to
keep
everyone
safe
to
make
sure
all
the
testing
was
happening
with
respect
to
any
other
public
safety
unions
that
had
testing
at
the
time.
The
same
was
true
as
to
them
as
well.
In
november
of
2021
councillor
mayor
wu
was
elected
mayor.
I
think
it's
important
that
when
she
ran
for
that
position,
she
didn't
campaign
on
implementing
a
vaccination
mandate
or
otherwise
modifying
the
testing
option
for
employees.
There
was
no
criticisms
made
by
her.
E
Now
this
was
in
december
december
7th
to
be
specifically
so
this
was
a
month
after
she
took
office
and
she
had
the
ability
to
assess
the
situation
and
she
actually
signed
an
agreement
on
that
day
december.
7Th,
permitting
in-station
testing
for
the
supervisors
raised
no
concerns
about
that
being
a
problem.
You
know
at
that
point.
E
E
so
three
weeks.
So
unlike
mayor
janie,
who,
when
she
made
the
announcement,
gave
three
months
for
people
to
come
into
compliance
three
months
for
the
unions
to
work
with
her
to
put
a
plan
in
place.
Mayor
wu
gave
three
weeks
five
days
before
the
christmas
holiday
for
this
to
be
set
forth,
and
it's
important.
If
you
look
at
her
press
releases
or
you
look
at
the
policy
itself,
which
is
in
our
packet
mayor
wu,
did
not
identify
any
deficiencies
in
the
current
testing
program.
E
She
didn't
cite
any
changed
circumstances
since
the
city
had
entered
into
a
deal
two
weeks
earlier
with
the
federation
on
december
7th
and
it
is
critical
and
my
colleague,
patrick
bryant
who's.
The
attorney
for
the
federation
will
talk
more
about
these
these
rates.
It
is
important
that
the
positive
test
rate
cited
by
mayor
wu
when
she
implemented
her
mandate
on
december
20th,
was
exactly
the
same
as
it
had
been
when
she
signed
a
deal
with
the
federation
two
weeks
earlier,
meaning
the
6.7
was
the
positive
rate.
E
So
again,
there
was
really
no
explanation
for
why,
two
weeks
prior
to
that,
she
was
able
to
endorse
and
sign
a
deal
that
allowed
in-station
testing
and
then
two
weeks
later,
abolish
it
through
a
policy
that
set
forth
a
mandate
with
three
weeks
for
everybody
to
comply,
and
it's
also
critical
that
neither
the
fire,
commissioner
nor
the
police,
commissioner,
cited
any
problems
with
the
testing
programs.
A
critical
component
of
both
the
federation
deal
as
well
as
the
local
718
deal
with
the
city
that
it
was
the
fire
commissioner
and
the
police
commissioners.
E
E
A
few
probably
like
about
a
week
after
that.
The
city
finally
made
arrangements
to
start
meeting
with
unions
to
talk
about
the
decision
that
they
had
announced
unilaterally
back
on
december.
20Th
and
I
included
in
my
timeline-
and
I
know
this
is
the
same
for
other
unions-
that
they
met
with
as
well
at
least
from
public
safety
when
we
did
finally
meet
with
the
city,
I
think
it
was
january.
6
was
the
first
date
for
the
fire
union.
E
We
proposed
a
a
you,
know,
concession
right
away
at
the
table
to
basically
accept
mayor
wu's
policy
to
accept
the
mandate
for
employees
that
were
already
vaccinated
to
accept
the
mandate
for
employees
moving
forward.
But
just
ask
that
there
was
a
grandfathering
of
the
group
that
had
chosen
to
be
unvaccinated
under
the
prior
plan
that
we
worked
together
to
come
up
with
some
kind
of
testing
option
or
something
that
allowed
them
to
continue
on
in
the
way
that
they
wanted
to
continue
on
the
city.
Never
responded
to
that
proposal.
E
He
did
put
very
clear
language
in
his
decision,
supporting
that
the
unions
had
a
likelihood
of
winning
in
their
underlying
department
charge
that
there
were
clearly
agreements,
they'd
clearly
been
ignored
without
any
bargaining,
and
basically
he
wrote
that
with
an
instruction
he
said,
I
don't
normally
write
opinions
of
this
length.
I
don't
normally
weigh
in
on
whether
or
not
a
union
is
going
to
win
their
underlying
case,
especially
when
I'm
ruling
against
them
in
an
injunction,
but
I'm
really
hoping
that
this
helps
the
parties
sort
this
out,
meaning
even
the
judge.
E
E
The
first
compliance
date
for
the
city
january
15th,
which
was
the
compliance
date
that
she
put
in
her
december
20th
policy,
came
and
went.
The
city
wasn't
prepared
to
put
employees
out
of
work.
So,
even
though
this
was
a
crisis
and
the
coven
mandate
had
to
be
issued
on
december
20th
with
three
weeks
to
everybody
in
compliance
that
compliance
date
was
moved
forward,
it
was
moved
forward
without
any
change
in
circumstances.
E
At
this
point,
since
the
institution
of
mayor
wu's
december
20th
policy,
there
was
no
more
testing
going
on
at
any
of
the
stations,
so
basically
any
of
the
safety
protocols
that
acting
mayor
janie
had
put
in
place
the
testing
which
occurred
the
entire
time
under
her
policy.
Since
the
issuance
of
mayor
wu's
policy
on
the
20th,
no
testing
occurred
and
worse
than
that,
once
this
compliance
date
came
up
on
january
15th
and
it
stretched
out,
there
was
no
attention
paid
to
or
changes
with
that
lack
of
testing.
E
E
E
Let's
create
an
in-station
testing
program,
let's
create
testing
protocols
so
that
they
can
stay
employed
because
there
was
a
large
number
of
them
and
for
safety
reasons
that
wasn't
a
good
result
for
either
side
to
have
that
workforce
be
reduced
by
that
number.
The
city
finally
did
respond
to
our
proposal,
the
first
time
they
didn't
the
second
time
they
did
and
they
rejected
it.
E
In
a
letter
around
january
18th,
the
city
also
rejected
the
proposals
that
were
made
by
other
public
safety
unions,
which
were
similar
to
grandfather
a
small
group
of
employees
from
vaccinating
and
allow
the
testing
they
also
rejected
those
in
uh
writing
as
well.
The
january
23rd
compliance
deadline,
the
extended
one
came
and
went
because
again,
the
city
was
not
prepared
to
put
employees
out
of
work.
E
So
the
meetings
were
obviously
not
meant
to
be
confidential
because
she
made
them
very
public.
She
brought
the
four
unions
in
for
a
meeting
on
february
5th.
The
city
proposed
the
implementation
of
a
policy
that
would
permit
a
grandfathered
group
of
employees
who
didn't
want
a
vaccine
vaccinate
to
remain
unemployed.
I
mean
to
remain
employed
and
to
either
during
times
when
measures
hit
a
certain
point
be
out
of
work
on
unpaid
leave
or
test.
E
E
We
worked
within
their
paradigm
and
there
was
no
courtesy
afforded
of
a
phone
call
or
a
written
response.
We
merely
turned
on
the
news
and
learned
that
our
proposal
had
been
rejected
notwithstanding
because
we
still
wanted
to
work
this
out
with
mayor
wu.
We
met
with
her
again
at
her
request
on
february,
8th
all
four
public
safety
unions.
E
They
wanted
to
have
an
implementation
of
a
city-wide
vaccine
passport
for
indoor
spaces
to
basically
demarcate
when
unvaccinated
employees
would
be
required
to
be
placed
on
unpaid
leave
or
test
again.
The
union
wanting
to
work
with
the
city
worked
within
their
paradigm
and
made
a
comprehensive
counter
proposal.
The
following
day,
the
city
withdrew.
E
Their
proposal
rejected
the
union's
proposal,
basically
telling
us
for
the
first
time
that
they
did
not
believe
the
city
had
the
authority
or
the
power
to
have
a
vaccine
passport,
and
they
also
made
reference
during
this
conversation
to
possibly
using
wastewater
data
as
another
measure
to
demarcate
when
unvaccinated
employees
would
be
placed
on
leave
or
test.
But
they
offered
no
proposal
in
writing
or
anything
of
substance.
E
On
february
14,
the
appeals
court
issued
a
permanent
stay
of
mayor
wu's
enforcement
of
her
policy
against
the
three
unions
that
brought
the
lawsuit,
the
federation,
the
detectives
and
the
superiors
until
such
time
as
the
parties
have
resolved
the
matter
at
the
department
of
labor
relations
and
again,
I
would
note
now
we're
on
february
14th.
The
policy
was
issued
on
december
20th.
E
I
think
what's
important,
and
I
gave
you
a
copy
of
the
superior
court
and
the
appeals
court
decision.
I
think,
what's
really
important,
is
a
thorough
read
of
that
decision
to
kind
of
get
an
understanding
again
of
what
the
courts
are
saying
about
mayor
wu's
actions,
despite
her
statements
in
the
paper
to
the
contrary,
which
I'll
get
to
in
a
minute.
E
Super
important-
is
that
the
appeals
court
judge
found
that
there
was
going
to
be
irreparable
harm
if
she
didn't
put
an
injunction
in
place
and
what's
critical,
is
that
she
took
into
consideration
that
city
employees
who
would
feel
compelled
to
be
vaccinated
to
keep
their
job
could
never
be
remedied
after
the
fact
through
mere
money.
You
know,
because
money
is
not
going
to
adequately
compensate
someone
for
their
loss
of
individual
self-determination
or
the
union's
ability
to
meaningfully
protect
their
interests.
E
She
took
that
very
seriously
and
did
cite
that
as
an
irreparable
harm,
as
many
courts
have
across
the
country.
Also
critical
and
you
can
read
the
decision
yourself-
is
that
the
appeals
court
judge
found
that
the
harm
to
the
city
and
the
public
interest
caused
by
the
city's
inability
to
enforce
a
mandate.
At
this
time,
as
to
the
unions
during
the
pendency
of
the
department
of
labor
relations,
litigation
is
limited.
As
there
are
other
measures
the
city
could
have
in
place
for
unvaccinated
employees.
E
That
would
protect
the
public
interest,
like
testing
the
very
testing
that
the
mayor
proposed
in
two
agreements
in
the
past
two
months.
She
also
found
that
an
injunction
would
serve
the
public
interest
as
it
would
save
critical
public
safety
jobs
that
basically
this
was
not
a
time
in
the
city
of
boston
to
put
hundreds
of
people
out
of
work
to
date.
We
have
not
heard
anything
back
from
the
city
since
this
permanent
stay.
There
has
been
no
attempts
to
work
this
matter
out
with
us
again.
E
The
stay
has
been
applied
to
everyone
and
there's
been
no
public
notification
of
the
city,
appealing
the
appeals
court
decision
to
any
other
higher
forum,
and
I
really
want
to
there's
two
statements.
The
only
thing
that
you
know
has
been
said
to
us
by
the
mayor
has
been
said
to
us
through
the
newspaper
and
so
two
of
the
press
statements
which
I
include
in
the
timeline
which
I
think
are
important
just
to
address
today.
E
E
That
characterization
is
unfair,
because
the
union's
positions
from
the
start
have
been
about
collective
bargaining,
that
their
rights
matter,
that
workplace
governance
matters
that
if
a
deal
is
signed
between
a
union
and
a
municipality
that
you
should
be
able
to
rely
on
that
deal
unless
another
one
is
negotiated.
That
has
been
the
consistent
message.
The
courts
have
seen
it
that
way.
Two
judges
have
seen
it
that
way
so
to
characterize
it
in
the
papers
or
to
make
us
look
like
this
is
underhanded
or
anything
other
than
our
ability
to
enforce.
E
There
are
three
public
safety
unions
that
should
be
operating
under
mayor
janie's,
acting
mayor,
janie's
policy
with
the
testing,
the
rest
of
the
city
should
be
under
the
current
policy
because
they
did
not
bring
injunctions
and
were
not
stayed
which
do
not
require
testing,
but
currently
no
policies
being
enforced.
No
testing's
happening
nothing's
happening,
so
we're
just
kind
of
all
waiting
to
see
what
the
next
move
is.
um
You
know,
and
that's
in
the
midst
of
everything
that
we're
seeing
in
the
world
outside
about
the
vaccine.
E
Passport
going
away,
masks
are
about
to
be
lifted,
announcements
that
are
being
made
at
the
state.
Many
cities
and
towns
are
rescinding
their
mandate.
Nothing's
happened
here
and
we're
just
sitting
and
waiting.
So
we
are
hopeful
that
this
information
at
least
gives
the
council
the
tools
to
understand
why
we
are
where
we
are
and
we're
hoping
that
you
know
again.
The
message
gets
sent
to
the
city
and
mayor
wu
that
you
know
something
should
be
done.
The
situation
should
remain,
as
is
that
you
know
people's
rights
should
be
recognized.
F
Good
afternoon,
members
of
the
city
council,
my
name
is
jeannie
carroll.
I
am
the
president
of
the
boston
police,
superior
officers
federation
and
I
represent
all
the
uniformed
sworn
sergeants,
lieutenants
and
captains
of
the
boston
police.
I
would
like
to
take
this
time
to
thank
councillors,
murphy
and
baker,
for
their
continued
support
of
our
unions
and
public
safety
as
a
whole.
I
would
also
like
to
thank
the
counselors
present
today,
warrell
anderson
and
edwards.
Thank
you
for
attending.
G
F
F
H
Thank
you
very
much.
My
name
is
patrick
bryant,
general
counsel
for
the
federation,
I'm
also
a
partner
at
pyle,
rome,
erenberg,
a
union
side
law
firm
in
boston,
and
I
want
to
thank
my
sister
counsel
for
her
extremely
accurate,
thorough
review
of
the
cases
set
forth,
and
I
want
to
highlight
a
few
things
that
she
said
and
amplify
them
in
a
way
that
I
think
hopefully
will
have
some
resonance.
H
My
wife
who's,
a
public
school
dance
teacher,
was
able
to
find
a
way
to
do
her
work
remotely,
but
there
were
people
who
had
to
suit
up
and
go
to
work.
There
were
people
whose
job
was
not
merely
to
go
to
work
but
to
go
and
face
the
dangers
that
all
of
us
were
told
to
stay
away
from
and
at
the
same
time,
this
city
provided
supplemental
paid
leave
to
all
city
employees.
H
If
you
had
to
care
for
a
family
member
with
a
coveted
related
issue,
if
you
had
to
take
care
of
a
child
who
whose
school
was
closed,
whose
daycare
was
closed
because
of
covid
and
coveted
related
reasons,
you
know
who
didn't
get
that
police
officers
firefighters,
emergency
responders,
because
the
city
said
you're
too
important
to
let
go
of.
We
need
to
deny
you
those
benefits
that
everyone
else
have
the
necessity
and
we
need
you
to
keep
showing
up
to
work.
H
Every
single
day
people
are
told,
I'm
sorry,
you
have
arrangements
with
your
family.
I'm
sorry,
you
think
you're
going
to
go
pick
up
your
kids,
I'm
sorry
you're
going
to
go
any
kind
of
celebration,
but
you're
staying
you're
staying
because
we
need
you-
and
you
have
to
be
here
and
at
the
time
when
this
was
first
announced.
H
I've
also
provided
a
snapshot
of
the
three
metrics
that
have
been
discussed
as
being
key
as
of
right
now
and
how
you
can
see
that
over
time,
as
well
as
providing
you
affidavits
from
city
officials,
about
what
happened.
So
if
you
look
at
this
data
at
the
time,
the
adult
one
of
the
things
that
they
look
at
now
is
the
occupancy
for
certain
non-icu
beds
in
boston
area,
hospitals
and
at
that,
when
the
pandemic
hit,
it
was
at
130
percent.
100
30,
at
capacity
with
their
threshold
being
95.
H
H
There
is
the
community
rate,
which
is
testing
um
provided
by
the
state
from
the
city
of
boston
and
then
there's
the
all
boston
rate,
which
includes
higher
education
in
colleges,
which
many
of
them
for
a
large
part
of
the
pandemic,
we're
testing
every
single
person
who
comes
on
their
campus
on
a
weekly
basis
and
that's
going
to
become
important
later
on,
because
that's
an
important
metric
and
consideration
as
to
where
this
communicable
disease,
where
it
arrives
at
so
the
it
had.
So
it
was
very
high
at
those
times.
H
H
There
was
a
large
um
outrage,
public
protests
and
occasionally
riots
that
occurred
in
the
city
of
boston.
There
were
for
about
a
dozen
days
over
those
two
months,
police
officers
were
forced
to
come
to
work.
They
had
what
they
call
a
full
call
up.
Your
days
off
are
cancelled.
Your
time
off
is
canceled,
doesn't
matter
whether
you're
scheduled
to
work
tomorrow
night
doesn't
matter
what
anything
else
is
you're
showing
up
every
single
day.
H
What
also
happened
in
june
2020
is
the
collective
bargaining
agreements
expired,
so
the
collective
bargaining
agreements
for
the
police
unions
expire
then,
and
the
number
of
meetings
we've
had
with
the
city
about
a
new
collective
bargaining
agreement
is
one
one
meeting
in
nearly
two
years
because
of
this,
and
this
is
also
important
to
understand
the
context
in
terms
of
how
the
city
treats
and
and
what
the
consequence
of
violating
an
agreement
means.
So
then,
when
january
2021,
when
you
have
these
miraculous
vaccines,
they
first
become
available
to
first
responders.
H
H
Still,
regardless
of
whether
you
have
the
vaccine,
the
for
parts
of
january
2021,
the
occupancy
rate
that
we
talked
about
in
the
hospital
beds,
non-icu
dipped
back
up
to
100
percent,
around
still
below
the
130
percent
have
been
before,
and
the
positivity
rating
for
tests
was
seven
percent
for
all
boston
and
nine
percent.
If
you
exclude
the
higher
education,
so
in
other
words,
you
have
these
really
high
figures.
According
to
the
metrics
that
the
city
now
cites
and
there
were
not
the
city's
officials
and
health
officials
saying
people
must
get
vaccinated.
H
H
I
think
it
doesn't
apply
to
firefighters
either,
but
so
then
you
have
again
these
additional
benefits
that
are
being
provided
to
all
other
city
employees,
but
the
city
is
still
saying
you
have
to
show
up
to
work.
When
we
tell
you-
and
so
then
you
have,
the
positivity
rating
was
dipping
down
for
the
community
rate
to
about
3.7
percent
that
time
in
april
2021,
as
this
pandemic
is
still
ongoing.
The
city
eliminates
this
additional
paid
sick
leave
for
police
officers
who
test
positive.
H
When
you
tested
positive
before
you
were
not
required
to
exhaust
your
sick
leave
in
order
to
get
a
benefit.
The
city
changed
that
unilaterally.
So
here
it
is
people
for
nearly
a
year
have
been
forced
to
show
up
to
work
and
one
of
the
most
harrowing
pandemics
that
have
ever
been
experienced
and
at
every
single
turn
the
city
is
taking
away
or
providing
less
to
the
first
responders
in
may
2021
the
state
finally
passes
a
law
that
says
everyone
gets
40
hours
of
supplemental
paid,
leave
for
coveted,
related
issues
even
to
care
for
family
members.
H
H
H
It
provided
a
pool
to
identify,
is
the
virus
spreading
people
regularly
having
to
get
tested
and
encourage
that
it
also
provided
the
opportunity
for
one
hour
of
paid
leave
to
all
city
employees,
regardless
of
their
vaccination
status?
So
that
is
a
great
one
way
to
encourage
people,
regardless
of
their
vaccination
status,
to
get
tested.
H
Instead,
it
said
recommends
that
all
persons,
regardless
of
vaccination
status,
wear
face
coverings
indoors
in
areas
of
substantial
or
high
transmission
and
in
their
press
release.
They
noted
that
the
cdc
says
that
indoor
masking
will
cut
transmission
by
about
66
percent.
So
here
you
have
august,
you
have
3.6
positivity
rate
for
the
community.
Hospital
occupancy
is
about
90
percent,
and
the
city
knows
that
encouraging
vaccines,
masking
and
testing
can
work
together
for
being
a
proposal.
H
Now,
when
we
finally
met
with
the
city
we
had
talked
about,
one
of
the
challenges
is
the
unique
role
that
police
officers
and
firefighters
play
also
in
terms
of
their
schedule,
because
the
city
policy
was
kind
of
built
around
the
idea
of
the
professionals
who
work
nine
to
five
and
maybe
even
in
city
hall.
So
if
you
are
vaccinated
or
unvaccinated
you
work
in
city
hall,
you
can
go
downstairs
to
the
testing
site,
get
a
test
take
an
hour
off.
H
That's
the
city
policy,
that's
great,
but
if
you're
someone
who
is
forced
to
work,
the
last
half
shift
for
police
in
matapan,
dorchester,
brighton,
somewhere
else,
there's
no
testing
site,
that's
open
when
you
need
to
get
tested,
and
our
thought
was
at
the
time
we
want
to
encourage
testing
testing
is
good.
Why
don't
you
provide
tests
to
everybody
that
can
do
it
and
the
city
was
unable
to
provide
that
the
city
didn't
say
at
the
time?
H
H
The
city
at
that
point
offered
us
an
mou,
no
reference
to
any
changes
that
could
happen.
The
occupancy
was
91.
uh
91.
At
that
time
the
positivity
was
3.5
percent
for
a
community
rate
december
7th,
as
mentioned
before
mayor
wu
signs,
the
agreement,
the
occupancy
rate.
At
the
time
her
administration
signed
it
for
non-icu
beds,
was
94.5,
the
hospitalizations
was
170
and
they
considered
200
a
threshold.
The
positivity
for
boston
was
6.7.
H
Setting
aside,
when
you
include
higher
education,
it
was
really
only
2.3,
so
that
is
when
we
start
getting
the
calls
about
we're
making
this
change.
So
what
had
changed
in
that
time
in
those
10
days,
the
metrics,
as
were
indicated
before,
were
the
same
now.
What
were
the
metrics
that
the
city
relied
upon
and
stated
why
it
was
making
the
decision
when
marwoo
announced
the
policy.
She
noted
that
75
of
residents
above
the
age
of
12
are
fully
vaccinated.
The
positive
test
rate
in
boston
reached
6.7
percent
again,
the
same
rate.
H
It
was
when
we
signed
the
agreement
and
notes
it
was
up
from
a
low
of
0.4
in
late
june,
but
that
doesn't
matter
because
that
was
before
mayor
janie
and
the
boston
public
health
commission
issued
their
policy.
Then
said
the
percentage
of
occupied
non-surge
icu
beds
reached
94.8
percent
approaching
boston,
public
health
commission's
95
threshold
of
concern.
H
What's
important
there
is
they
cited
a
metric
that
was
not
met.
Here
is
where
we
and
mind
you:
95
is
merely
where
they
start
to
get
concerned,
and
it
wasn't
there.
So
they
cite
one
metric
that
says
same
positivity
rate.
The
second
metric
they
cite
is
not
even
met;
they
don't
cite
hospitalizations
or
other
factors.
They
don't
cite
the
percentage
of
employees
that
are
positive.
I
would
also
note
in
the
materials
that
are
provided
on
the
website
from
the
bphc
cover
19
case
latest
updates.
H
They
also
don't
just
look
at
if
you're
at
a
95
percent
threshold
for
occupancy.
The
concern
is
five
days
in
a
row.
So
then
the
city
also
announces
the
be
together
vaccine
requirement
for
indoor
spaces.
At
that
time,
saying
68
percent
of
the
city
is
fully
vaccinated,
is
one
of
the
reasons
that
they're
doing
it
and
that
the
hospitalizations
have
increased
and
also
at
the
same
time,
the
city
announces
as
part
of
this
endeavor
we're
doing
a
regional
approach.
H
H
H
It
should
be
noted
that
the
employee
vaccination
rate
of
our
bargaining
units
was
higher
than
for
the
city,
77
percent,
at
the
time
for
fire,
89
percent
for
the
detectives
83
for
the
federation
and
then
in
january,
when
the
city
finally
responds
to
our
injunction,
they
attach
the
affidavits
that
have
been
provided
for
you
and
they
announce
new
reasons
for
why
they
have
decided
to
do
this.
They
noted
that
the
vaccination
had
dropped
off
from
city
employees
that
there
it
wasn't
increasing
when
it
had
been
before
now.
H
The
reason
is
because
people
had
a
deadline
in
which
to
upload
vaccination
verification.
Some
people
decided
not
to
verify
their
vaccination
for
preferring
not
to
share
the
data
with
the
city,
but
otherwise
there
was
not
an
expectation.
It
was
always
going
to
keep
increasing.
That
was
not
part
of
our
conversations
and
we
had
talked
with
them
about
ways
in
which,
if
you
want
to
encourage
vaccination,
you
want
to
make
sure
that
people
are
provided,
paid,
leave
and
other
communities.
H
We
have
situations
where,
if
you
are
vaccinated
and
you
test
positive
for
covet,
it's
automatically
treated
as
a
work
related
injury.
The
next
reading
cited
by
the
city
and
the
affidavits,
was
the
overwhelming
absence
of
employees
that
were
happening
that
the
absences
were
on
the
increase.
The
problem
with
that
is
the
overwhelming
absences
that
were
increasing
during
the
omicron
surge
were
of
vaccinated
employees,
I'm
vaccinated.
H
The
city
filed
this
information
and
also
said
on
january
10th,
we're
looking
at
all
the
unions,
proposals,
we're
meeting
with
all
the
unions
and
then
we'll
get
back
to
them
to
decide
what
we're
going
to
say
with
regard
to
what
they
think.
This
was
five
days
before
the
deadline.
When
we
met
with
the
city,
they
lacked
the
authority
to
mediate
or
settle.
They
didn't
respond
to
our
proposals.
H
H
It
is
concerning
to
us
that
again,
people
who
have
been
who
have
shown
up
during
the
worst
of
the
pandemic,
where
they
have
not
been
provided,
guidance
or
metrics,
where
the
city
finally
comes
to
them
and
says
we're
going
to
require
testing
or
vaccination,
and
it
is
based
on
science
to
suddenly
turn
around
two
weeks
later
and
say.
That's
no
good
is
extremely
frustrating
during
this
time.
H
H
So,
during
the
worst
of
the
pandemic
and
the
omicron
surge
people
who
were
not
vaccinated
were
allowed
to
work
with
a
testing
option
and
this
the
trends
were
nearly
identical
to
the
surrounding
communities
and
places
without
a
vaccination
passport
and
without
employee
mandates.
Actually
in
some
cases,
may
have
performed
better.
H
So
we
are
again
looking
to
find
a
way
to
come
to
an
understanding
with
the
city
to
take
seriously
the
health
and
safety
of
the
first
responders
who
are
working
by
not
discarding
them
on
what
appears
to
be
a
statement
that
is
different
for
why
it
is
happening,
and
I
would
just
note
also
for
the
boston
public
health
commission's
affidavit.
That
was
provided
again.
They
said
one
of
the
reasons
they
were
putting
this
employee
mandate
in
place
was
the
efficacy
of
the
vaccine.
H
All
that
information
was
available
and
also
cited
in
august.
The
vaccine
didn't
become
more
powerful,
more
effective
in
those
intervening
months,
and
I
I
worry
that
what
has
happened
is
now
where
it's
understanding
has
been.
There
needs
to
be
increased
amount
of
testing.
Among
of
all
individuals
like
the
colleges
are
doing.
H
A
Thank
you
very
much.
I
would
like
to
acknowledge
that
we've
been
joined
by
my
colleagues,
counselor
fernandez,
anderson
and
counselor
edwards.
I
will
continue
with
this
panel
and
then
I'll.
Give
you
an
opportunity
to
speak.
Okay
is
that
fine?
I
um
have
also
been
told
that
the
um
president
larry
calderon
from
the
boston
police,
patrolmen
association,
is
here
and
would
like
to
speak.
Is
that
correct?
Still?
I
I
On
the
behalf
of
my
membership,
let
me
say
thank
you
very
much
for
holding
this
hearing
for
giving
me
the
opportunity
to
speak
as
well
council
when
it
comes
to
public
safety.
The
residents
of
boston
should
know
that
nobody
cares
more
about
keeping
you
safe
than
the
members
of
the
boston
police,
patrolman's
association,
our
ems
division,
our
detectives,
our
superior
officers
and
the
boston
fire
department.
I
I
I
I
There
is
no
reason
why,
at
this
given
time,
the
mayor
and
her
colleagues
would
not
pivot
at
this
point,
honor
our
old
moas
and
let
business
get
on
as
usual
here
in
the
city.
I'll
take
a
moment
extra
to
say.
Thank
you
again,
counselors.
Thank
you
for
the
time
to
speak.
uh
I
was
as
brief
as
possible,
counselors
in
attendance.
Thank
you
very
much
for
being
here.
I
appreciate
it.
A
Thank
you.
I'd
also
like
to
read
a
letter
from
the
boston
police,
detective
benevolence
society,
dear
counselor,
murphy,
on
behalf
of
the
boston
police,
detectives,
benevolent
society
and
the
three
distinct
bargaining
units
contained
therein.
I
would
like
to
express
my
sincere
appreciation
for
the
council's
investigation
into
the
city's
kovid
19
vaccination
policy
and
its
development.
A
This
modification
would
have
resulted
in
the
term
termination
of
many
members
of
our
union
who
had
worked
tirelessly
on
behalf
of
the
city
and
the
public
since
the
onset
of
coven
19
at
their
peril.
Fortunately,
the
appeals
court
yesterday
just
to
be
clear.
This
was
dated
on
february
16th
because
the
hearing
should
have
been
last
week.
So
just
so,
there's
no
confusion
on
that.
Fortunately,
the
appeals
court
yesterday
affirmed
that
the
mayor's
policy
changes
should
have
been
bargained
prior
to
implementation.
A
As
a
result,
our
members
will
not
be
terminated
until
the
bargaining
process
continues
as
we
as
we
have
sought
from
the
beginning.
The
decision
reaffirms
that
this
union,
in
addition
to
the
superior
offices,
federation
and
boston
firefighters,
local
7-8
team,
should
be
permitted
to
bargain
for
our
members
at
a
meaningful
time
and
in
a
meaningful
manner.
A
I
apologize
that
I
could
not
attend
today's
hearing
in
person,
but
our
executive
board
had
a
previously
scheduled
meeting
and
our
members
needed
to
be
updated
on
these
developments
as
soon
as
possible.
We
appreciate
all
that
you
do
to
encourage
and
support
collective
bargaining
as
well
as
your
continued
support
of
our
members
in
organized
labor
in
general.
A
J
K
I
want
to
first
thank
the
makers
of
this
hearing
order,
councillor
murphy
and
councillor
baker,
for
your
steadfast
dedication
to
transparency,
and
I
believe
that
that's
the
goal
of
this
of
today's
of
today's
hearing.
I
do
want
to
also
thank
the
locals,
who
are
here
today
as
well
as
their
legal
representatives.
K
I
think
I
heard
that
actually,
the
collective
bargaining
contract
was
up
anyway
in
for
negotiation
in
the
middle
of
this
pandemic,
and
so
I
bring
up
this
because
um
there's
a
couple
couple
ways
to
approach
this.
This
conversation-
and
I,
while
I
do
appreciate
that
there
is
certainly
a
division
in
terms
of
the
negotiating
and
how
it
can
or
cannot
be
brought
publicly
to
the
floor.
K
So
I
I
am
glad
that
you
are
here
inviting
us
to
be
part
of
those
comp.
This
conversation
and
I
hope
future
conversations
as
well
when
there
are
pro
possibly
issues
or
concerns
where
we're
holding
the
locals
accountable,
and
I
think
that
the
same
narrative
that
you're
using
today
to
hold
the
city
accountable,
should
be
used
when
we're
discussing
negotiations
and
being
as
open
and
honest
and
discussing
all
those
things
as
well.
Excuse
me,
whether
it's
the
sexual
harassment,
whether
it's
racial
discrimination,
whether
it's
the
hair
test
and
so
on
and
so
forth.
K
How
long
does
it
last?
What
are
the
standards
for
it?
What
powers
does
an
executive
have
when
an
emergency
is
called?
That's
what
I'm
hoping-
and
I
know
we'll
get
to
that,
but
the
goal
for
today
for
me,
because
I
am
genuinely
confused,
I
can't
imagine
an
executive
wouldn't
have
expedited
increased
mandating
powers
during
an
emergency.
K
I
think
the
question
all
of
us
wonder
is
how
long
does
an
emergency
last
and
how
much
of
those
powers
are
to
be
expanded
upon
and
continued.
I
would
think
in
an
immediate
emergency
right.
We
wouldn't
be
talking
about
whether
you
can
negotiate
a
contract
in
any
shape
or
form.
You
must
act,
you
must
protect.
You
must
do
what
is
right
by
your
constituents,
but
again
I
think
councilor
baker.
K
When
we
were
discussing
the
hearing
order,
there
are
a
lot
of
people
who
are
wondering
what
is
the
emergency
and
how
much
more
and
how
mandates
and
powers
can
the
executive
have
whether
it's
the
mayor,
the
governor
president,
whomever
so
I'm
excited
to
get
to
that
conversation
specifically
about
the
emergency
and
what
it
is,
what
standards
that
we
have
and
what
powers
we
should
or
shouldn't
have
as
an
executive
and
as
a
city.
So
thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
have
that
conversation.
A
L
L
L
The
city
has
failed
to
provide
the
support
needed
to
protect
our
workers
and
our
community
members,
and
then
they
attacked
our
collective
bargaining
rights.
I'm
not
going
to
spend
time.
You've
heard
a
timeline
um
so
eloquently
put
by
my
brothers
and
sisters
in
police
and
fire.
So
I'm
going
to
focus
on
what's
happened
at
bpl
itself.
L
We
still
don't
have
all
the
information
we've
requested,
but
thanks
to
you,
we've
gotten
some
release
of
information
the
monday
after
the
last
hearing.
But
yet
they
still
can't
tell
us
the
reason
why
if
we
asked
about
the
what
is
considered
the
unvaccinated
pool
in
the
city
of
boston
employees,
if
there
were
rates
that
increased
dramatically
of
those
individuals,
that
would
cause
us
to
have
a
vaccine
mandate
instead
of
the
policy
we
had,
it
appears
the
city
is
making
decisions
without
having
all
the
information
or
perhaps
that
data
doesn't
support
what
they
want
to
do.
L
Councilor
baker.
I
heard
you
talk
about
your
lost
weekends
at
the
beginning
and
nights
and
that's
something
I
think
again.
We
have
all
had
the
friday
night
drop
before
a
long
weekend.
The
friday
night
drop
before
a
holiday
weekend,
the
last
minute
it
has
to
get
done
in
three
days.
That
is
not
enough
time
for
us
to
figure
out,
have
conversations
and
make
decisions.
L
L
The
city
indicates
that
we
were
in
red,
like
we
were
a
couple
of
weeks
ago,
and
we
have
to
implement
stronger
measures
like
a
vaccine
mandate.
At
the
same
time,
they
brought
back
the
entire
city
workforce,
which
ensured
that
social
distancing
could
not
be
enforced
and
our
ventilation
systems
are
taxed
even
more.
L
This
administration
put
restrictions
in
place
without
providing
any
data,
any
backup,
any
support
or
any
training
to
the
employees
who
have
to
provide
enforcement,
which
goes
beyond
my
brothers
and
sisters
in
the
police
department.
My
members
are
front
line
everybody
walks
in
the
door.
They
act
as
security.
In
many
ways,
the
city's
approach
cannot
be
focused
on
just
vaccine
mandates,
as
we
have
heard
repeatedly
from
professional
medic
from
medical
professionals,
and
we
heard
again
from
our
brothers
and
sisters
in
police
and
fire
mandating
vaccines,
which
we
encourage.
L
We
encourage
all
of
our
members
to
get
vaccinated,
but
especially
when
we
look
at
the
demographics
in
the
socioeconomic
perspective,
it
doesn't
hold
up
this
mandate,
unfairly
targets
our
bypoc
employees
and
community
members,
all
of
whom
abided
by
the
weekly
testing.
There
has
been
no
reports
across
the
city
that
the
testing
failed
none.
So
we
are
punishing
at
this
point,
the
individuals
who
have
been
coming
to
work
and
doing
their
jobs
and
providing
support
to
our
communities.
L
Instead,
instead
of
fighting
a
court
ruling,
the
city
should
spend
our
funds
and
focus
on
a
layered
approach,
encouraging
vaccinations,
continuing
mask
wearing
social
distancing
and
improving
the
ventilation
and
filtration
systems.
In
our
buildings,
the
people
we
potentially
will
lose
are
the
people
who
are
in
our
communities
who
win
awards
for
their
efforts
in
the
city
and
have
been
recognized.
Are
these
really
the
people
we
want
to?
L
L
L
The
standard
for
air
change
rates
is
six,
but
even
with
a
minimum
of
three,
the
majority
of
our
locations
fail
that
criteria
and
some
locations
have
zero
fresh
air
exchanges.
It
is
shown
to
be
critical
during
pandemic
times,
and
during
these
times
this
is
not
going
to
go
away.
It
occurs
during
the
flu.
It
occurs
all
year
round
during
the
winter,
when
our
buildings
are
closed
up
for
some
of
those
locations,
they
put
an
ionic
wave
system
which
do
not
meet
the
standard
and
have
shown
that
they
need
hepa
filters
to
back
that
up.
L
The
city
is
failing
its
workforce
and
the
communities
by
refusing
at
least
one
layer
of
protection
that
should
be
easy
to
implement,
and
I
urge
the
city
council
to
look
into
that
and
help
with
that.
Just
as
an
example
are
reports
from
2021
the
fields,
corner
branch
has
an
ach
of
1.17
per
hour.
Again
remember:
a
bare
minimum
is
three:
the
newly
renovated
roxbury
branch
is
2.6,
honen
alston
is
1.35,
the
north
end
is
.37
and
south
boston
is
.43,
and
that
list
continues.
L
We
welcome
everyone
into
our
buildings,
as
I
said,
our
youth,
our
aging
populations,
our
autoimmune
compromise
population,
so
think
about
that.
The
next
time
you're
in
one
of
our
boston,
public
library
locations,
think
about
what
air
you're
breathing
again.
We
have
been
asking
for
this
pre-pandemic
and
this
will
continue
post-pandemic.
L
L
L
Maybe
that's
a
way
to
connect
our
residents
to
good
paying
jobs,
to
green
jobs,
and
if
the
goal
is
to
create
economic
growth
and
promote
health,
equity,
mobility
and
security,
then
what
better
way
than
to
use
these
funds
to
invest,
to
bring
our
city
buildings
up
and
beyond
the
standard,
thus
protecting
current
employees
and
training
the
next
generation,
while
bringing
stability
to
our
communities
as
you've
heard,
both
with
the
mandate
and
the
pandemic
in
the
emergency
order.
For
us,
it's
about
collective
bargaining
and
understanding
that
we
have
rights.
L
We
also
have
been
out
of
contract
during
this
time.
The
union
my
union
asked
me
1526
and
I
are
willing
to
engage
and
reach
a
resolution.
We
want
to
keep
our
employees
safe
and
we
want
to
keep
the
communities
that
we
serve
and
our
population
safe,
but
instead,
instead
of
spending
time
and
money
fighting,
let's
focus.
L
Let's
put
the
agreement
that
we
had
that
we
signed
in
october
of
2021,
which
we
agreed
to
stand
by
until
this
pandemic
ends,
which
involved
weekly
testing
for
our
employees
and
instead
focus
on
bringing
and
improving
our
infrastructure
and
improving
and
bringing
equity
inequality
across
all
of
our
neighborhoods.
It's
time
to
move
forward
and
not
continue
to
repeat
the
issues
of
the
past.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
B
B
On
december
7th
and
then
went
back
on
her
own
words,
so
she
couldn't
say
that
it
was
somebody
else.
um
I
have
one
question
for
patrick
patrick
you,
so
the
the
press
conference
was
on
the
20th.
When
did
you
finally
see
matrix?
Do
you
see
it
like
everybody
else
in
the
newspaper
at
another
press
conference?
B
20Th
on
the
20th
we
rolled
out
that
we
were
going
to
put
people
out
of
work
we
were
going
to.
We
were
going
to
strip
businesses
up
there
of
their
their
ability
to
do
business,
and
we
were
going
to
do
some
other
things
too.
Without
any
understanding
of
what
was
going
to
happen.
It
looked
like
a
political
rally
to
me
right,
no
understanding
of
of
what
we
needed
where
we
needed
to
be
to
be
able
to
stay
with
these
decisions.
B
B
At
six
weeks,
yeah,
seven
weeks
later,
okay,
thank
you,
and
I
just
need
to.
I
need
to
make
a
statement
to
to
kind
of
push
back
a
little
bit
over
on
on
uh
on
a
statement
that
one
of
my
colleagues
made
we're
trying
to
have
a
discussion
here,
we're
trying
to
get
to
the
bottom
of
how
these
discussions,
how
these
decisions
were
made
to
strip
people
of
their
rights.
We're
trying
this
administration
is
disrespecting
us
all.
City
councils
pay
attention
you're
all
getting
disrespected,
there's
nobody
here
again
today.
B
A
K
We
know
where
I
stand.
You
know
where
I
stand.
Okay,
I
understand
it
is
coming
from
your
experience,
dealing
with
a
different
administration
and
how,
in
that
administration,
as
a
city
worker,
you
lost
everything
and
that
you
do
not
want
this
to
happen
to
current
city
workers,
and
you
feel
that
this
conversation,
as
is
happening
with
this
administration,
is,
is
like
the
other
one
or
could
lead
to
the
same
thing.
It's.
K
I
wasn't
there
for
the
other
one.
I
can't
speak
to
that.
I
cannot
speak
to
that.
All
I
can
say
and
what
I
brought
up
and
the
reason
why
I
was
talking
about
why
I
came
here
today
and
what
the
hearing
order
is
discussing
is
the
emergency
order.
What
is
it
since
2020
and
what
I
came
into
in
about
an
hour
and
a
half
of
this
conversation
was
about
the
contract
negotiations.
B
K
K
B
K
Legal
team,
the
legal
team
would
not
come
and
negotiate
or
discuss
contract
negotiations
in
public.
That
is
the
policy.
That
is
the
policy.
That
is
what
happens
when
we
try
to
discuss
overtime
in
police.
That
is
the
policy.
When
we
try
to
discuss
every
other
contract
as
well
legal
won't
come
they
didn't
come
to
the
hearings
I
was
hosting,
they
didn't
come
to
this
hearing.
Either.
Will.
K
N
Murphy
and
council
baker
for
sponsoring
the
hearing.
I
think
it's
important
for
us
to
be
here
today,
because
I've
heard
from
constituents
on
all
sides
of
this
issue,
some
who
are
in
favor
of
lifting
all
coveted
restrictions,
some
of
whom
want
to
keep
all
covert
restrictions
and
some
even
want
to
put
more
in
place,
and
there
are
some
who
are
comfortable
with
lifting
some
restrictions,
but
not
all
of
them
in
in
all
of
those
conversations,
emails
and
calls
about
it.
N
N
So,
with
all
of
that
said,
my
hope
for
today's
hearing
is
that
we're
able
to
have
an
open
discussion
about
the
metrics
that
we're
using
to
drive
uh
policy
decisions
uh
out
of
the
boston
public
health
commission
around
uh
remaining
in
a
state
of
emergency
and
as
I'm
done
as
you
can
see,
I'm
I'm
over
this.
It's
it's
time
for
it's
time
for
us
to
move
forward
as
a
city.
N
It's
time
to
get
businesses
open
it's
time
to
get
our
kids
back
to
school,
uh
it's
time
to
proceed
on
uh
with
uh
sort
of
our
day-to-day
lives
and
and
then
we'll
obviously
have
to
deal
with.
Maybe
potential
variants
uh
down
the
road
but
the
new
norm
is
uh
you
know
we
we
have
an
understanding
of
of
uh
how
it
works.
N
So
with
that,
looking
forward
to
hearing
from
folks
from
the
boston
public
health
commission
uh
and
find
out
what
again,
what's
the
methodology,
what
are
the
metrics,
what
decisions
made
are
they
responsible
for
these
decisions?
Have
they
abdicated
their
responsibility
for
the
decisions
when
you
read
the
newspaper
and
you
see
other
mandates
that
were
struck
down
their
boards,
their
health
boards
were
the
ones
that
were
making
those
decisions
and
voting
on
those.
So
I
guess
I
want
to
get
to
the
meat
and
potatoes
and
dive
into
the
details
there.
N
A
J
Council,
baker
we're
sometimes
going
to
disagree
and
being
a
rookie
and
all
coming
in
now
we
sat
down
and
we
talked
before
right
in
the
beginning.
I
asked
you
for
some
tips
for
some
advice
and
um
I
think
we
aligned
ourselves
basically
in
that
fighter
spirit
that
we
both
have.
In
fact,
people
have
told
me
that
I'm
the
female
version
of
frank
baker.
I.
J
um
What
I
thank
you,
what
I
um
just
would
like
to
say
is
you
know
the
difference
that
I
saw
with
protesters
or
the
people
in
this
room
when
I
was
out
there
in
meetings
or
press
conferences
or
wherever
I'm
I'm,
I
am.
I
saw
a
huge
difference
in
the
way
people
approached
me,
people
from
the
firefighters
union
or
police
officers,
and
difference
between
the
people
that
were
stalking
or
harassing
the
mayor
right.
J
There
was
a
huge
difference
in
behavior
and
I
really
appreciate
your
passion
and
I
really
love
that
this
can
be
an
emotional
thing
that
you
believe
in
and
that
you
will
stand
for
people.
That
is
something
for
us
all
to
celebrate
and
commemorate
around
right.
What
I
ask
you,
though,
as
your
fellow
sister,
is
that
we
try
to
remain
focused
on
the
objective,
meaning
that
we
check
our
emotions
so
that
we're
not
offending
each
other
in
the
way
we
speak
with
each
other.
B
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
appreciate
that
I'm
going
to
try
and
keep
my
emotions
in
check
just,
but
just
for
the
just
for
the
record.
At
the
beginning
of
this
of
this
pandemic,
I
was
attacked
for
months
people
calling
my
cell
phone
keeping
people
calling
my
wife's
cell
phone
people
crawling
all
around
my
house.
People
shooting
fireworks
at
my
house
back
then
it
was,
and
it
was
the
flank.
The
flames
were
fanned
in
my
opinion
by
my
colleagues.
B
B
B
B
F
B
Have
any
questions
for
her?
My
questions
are:
where
were
these
decisions
made?
Did
you
bring
them
back
to
uh
do?
You
have
public
health
care
professionals
that
we
know
who
they
are
the
board?
Did
they
have
any
discussions
on
these?
The
record
will
show
that
there
was
no
discussion
on
them.
The
record
will
show
that
the
public
health
did
not
even
meet
on
these
things,
but
yet
we
sign
an
agreement
on
the
seventh
and
then.
B
Wait
I
want
to
put
these
people
out
of
work.
I
want
to
demoralize
these
people
and
it's
not
just
about
the
people
that
are
in
police
cars
and
fire
trucks.
It's
about
the
people
that,
at
the
library
it's
about
the
custodians
that
are
downstairs.
It's
about
the
people
that
are
collecting
the
tickets,
our
money
that
make
us
go
right.
All
of
them
had
to
come
in.
We
were
allowed
to
stay
home.
None
of
those
benefits
were
extended
to
me
by
the
way,
patrick
yeah.
B
So
I'm
trying
to
remain
in
the
moment
here,
yeah
and
I'm
trying
to
remain
at
home.
I'm
a
union
person
consider
myself
a
union
person
and
a
lot
of
times.
The
union
movement
leads,
the
municipal
worker
out.
The
municipal
unions
are
not
respected.
I
don't
think
the
way
they
should
be
respected.
Our
city
runs
not
because
of
that
administration
across
the
hall.
Our
our
city
runs
because
the
people
that
have
their
boots
on
the
ground
and
the
people
that
are
protecting
us.
B
B
So
thank
you.
I
appreciate
I'll
always
be
respectful
to
you.
If
I
was
disrespectful
to
you,
I
apologize.
I
know
you're
a
union
person,
I'm
heated
35
years
in
the
city,
put
out
of
a
job
young
twins
at
home.
Think
about
it!
Thank
you.
I'm
going
to
take
a
little
break
right
now,
I'm
going
to
take
you.
Thank
you.
A
D
On
the
lines
of
what
patrick
spoke
of
for
us
in
this
industry,
an
emergency
is
taken
care
of
right.
Now
um
we
get
in
the
fire
truck,
we
get
they
get
in
the
fight
in
the
police,
car
and
respond
right
then,
and
there
that's
what
an
emergency
is.
um
We're
kind
of
lost
with
this
emergency,
not
knowing
where
it
is.
D
As
far
as
the
protesters,
I
have
a
group
of
local
718,
a
committee
that
stands
out.
They
have
been
nothing
but
respectful.
They
have
not
gone
to
anyone's
home.
They
you
see
them
stand
out.
We
have
a
group
that
is
together
that
has
done
it.
That
has
bylaws
that
have
been
working
to
do
this
correctly
and
we're
not
out
there
to
um
to
harass
or
scream
or
yell
just
to
get
collective
bargaining
point
across.
That's
all
we
do
again.
I
thank
you
for
your
time.
I
thank
you
for
your
work.
J
O
Everybody
chris
stockbridge,
vice
president
of
council
93,
president
local
1631
and
chair
of
the
boston
president's
committee
for
asked
me
um
councillor
anderson,
your
own
word.
You
were
talking
to
council
baker
about
you,
know
his
attitude
of
getting
hot.
I
don't
know
how
you
would
feel
if
you
were
a
30-year
employer,
a
20-year
employer,
a
10-year
employee,
and
somebody
came
in
with
a
piece
of
paper
with
no
evidence
behind
it
to
take
away
your
livelihood
and
make
you
possibly
lose
anything
I,
along
with
my
brothers
and
sisters.
O
Why
are
they
not
telling
you
anything
and
why
are
they
not
bringing
you
in
and
having
an
inclusive
conversation
with
you
when
these
mandates
were
put
on
us?
We
were
basically
told
I
had
to
watch
a
press
conference.
One
day
made
me
sick
to
my
stomach,
as
I
watched
people
from
salem
from
the
state
house
from
um
curtitone
from
somerville
I'll
dance
across
hot
stage,
and
tell
us
how
this
should
all
be
pretty
much
jammed
up
our
air
end.
We're
not
anti-vaxxers.
O
We've
said
this
all
along,
but
there's
got
to
be
a
better
path
than
what's
been
given
to
us
now
now,
since
our
last
hearing
that
that
we
had
with
the
counselors
and
I've
been
open
with
my
brothers
and
sisters,
aspects
have
the
opportunity
to
sit
down.
Why
isn't
everybody
being
offered
given
the
same
opportunity
to
sit
down?
Why
if
there's
no
emergency
left
now,
as
I
heard
one
of
my
counselors
say
here,
if
there's
no
emergency,
then
why
change
their
mandate
now?
Why
not
just
leave
it
the
same?
O
O
O
O
The
treatment
of
the
work
staff
morale's
in
an
all-time
low
in
the
city
of
boston.
I've
worked
here
for
32
years
and
I
can't
believe
the
way
people
feel
about
coming
to
work.
We
love
the
city,
we
all
took
jobs
with
the
city
because
we
love
the
city,
we
love
to
be
in
constituent
services.
We
love
the
work.
We
do.
I
admire
the
work
that
my
union
does
every
day.
O
I
can't
say
enough
about
people
that
are
going
to
run
into
burning
houses
to
save
people,
people
that
are
going
to
come
and
take
those
people
that
are
going
to
come
with
us
to
attack
us
to
steal
our
money
to
the
police.
You
just
can't
fathom
what
we're
going
through
with
this
pandemic
and
the
excuses
of
it's
a
pandemic.
O
We
can.
We
collect
a
bargain,
no
matter
tomorrow.
Today
we
have
to
worry
about
the
pandemic.
That's
wrong
and
I've
said
it's
wrong
all
along
and
to
hear
the
the
the
things
that
come
out
of
some
of
these
politicians
models
who
stand
in
front
of
us
to
tell
us
when
they
want
an
endorsement,
how
important
collective
bargaining
is
and
how
much
it
means
to
them
and
how
they
respect
the
process.
O
That
now
is
your
time
to
get
up
and
help
us
not
sit
there.
Not.
You
know
say
that
this
is
going
to
happen
and
that's
going
to
happen.
Hearings
like
these
got
to
continue
to
happen
and
the
collective
bargaining
rights
of
all
union
members
across
the
city
have
to
be
respected,
not
just
the
ones
we
like.
A
Q
Good
afternoon,
everyone
good
afternoon,
chairperson
murphy,
counselors
and
members
of
this
committee,
and
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
testify
today,
I'm
joined
by
pj,
mccann
deputy
director
for
policy
and
planning
for
the
boston
public
health
commission.
Mr
mccann
was
interim
general
counsel
during
the
period
of
time
when
many
of
these
orders
policies
were
put
in
place.
So
in
the
interest
of
time
and
given
the
fact
that
there's
a
lot
of
interest
around
the
emergency
order
and
details
regarding
its
implementation,
I'm
going
to
turn
to
mr
mccann
to
speak.
P
Thank
you,
dr
ojakutu,
and
members
of
the
committee.
As
you
know,
the
boston
public
health
commission
is
an
independent
agency
created
by
an
act
of
the
state
legislature,
the
boston
public
health
act
of
1995,
which
is
also
referred
to
as
bphc's
enabling
act.
This
law
sets
forth,
which
functions
and
duties
of
the
previous
boston
city,
hospital
and
its
board
of
trustees
were
to
be
filled
by
bphc
and
the
board
of
health
in
general.
P
The
enabling
act
gives
bphc
and
the
board
of
health
the
responsibilities
held
by
boards
of
health
and
public
health
departments
under
the
framework
of
state
laws
set
forth
in
chapter
111
of
the
general
laws
under
public
health
law,
public
health
officials
have
unique
duties
to
act
in
the
context
of
preventing
the
spread
of
infectious
diseases
and
appeals.
Courts
have
generally
given
deference
to
local
public
health
regulations
and
orders
under
the
enabling
act.
Bphc
is
governed
by
a
board
of
health
made
up
of
seven
members.
P
Six
members
are
appointed
by
the
mayor,
boston,
subject
to
the
approval
of
the
city
council.
The
seventh
member
is
the
chief
executive
officer
of
the
boston
medical
center
and
serves
exeter
of
the
mayor's
appointees.
The
act
requires
that
two
seats
represent
community
health
centers
and
one
represent
organized
labor
under
the
enabling
act.
The
executive
director
of
the
commission
is
appointed
by
the
board
and
is
responsible
for
administering
the
affairs
of
the
commission
under
the
supervision
of
the
board.
P
Bphc's
mission
is
to
protect,
preserve
and
promote
the
health
and
well-being
of
all
boston
residents,
particularly
those
who
are
most
vulnerable.
The
commission's
more
than
40
programs
are
grouped
into
six
bureaus
child
adolescent,
family
health,
the
community
initiatives,
bureau,
homeless
services,
infectious
disease
recovery
service
recovery
services
and
emergency
medical
services.
P
The
board
received
status
updates
reports
on
our
response
efforts
at
seven
public
meetings
in
2020
and
six
public
meetings
in
2021,
the
borders
briefed
on
the
status
of
covet
19
and
the
emergency
orders.
Most
recently
at
their
january
12th
meeting
this
year,
ephc
bphc
staff
presentations
to
the
board
have
included
information
about
the
metrics.
That
bphc
is
following
to
better
understand
the
pandemic
and
inform
boston's
response,
including
the
deployment
of
resources,
testing
vaccinations,
as
well
as
the
guidance
and
policies
we
have
issued
to
protect
the
public
in
the
context.
P
This
declaration
was
ratified
by
the
board
of
health
on
march
17
2020
and
remains
in
effect.
The
decision
was
made
in
consultation
with
infectious
disease
and
public
health,
emergency
preparedness
experts
at
the
commission,
as
well
as
the
mayor's
office
and
other
emergency
preparedness,
public
health
and
health
care
experts
inside
and
outside
of
city
government.
P
It
also
authorizes
bphc
to
use
employees,
equipment,
resources
and
issue
additional
directives
as
necessary
to
support
boston's
covet
19
response
efforts
in
the
early
stages
of
the
pandemic.
The
declaration
was
instrumental
in
bphc,
establish
establishing
an
incident
command
structure
and
deploying
staff
and
resources
to
perform
crisis
response
and
healthcare
coordination
functions
from
bphc's
lawler
medical
intelligence
center
advisories
and
orders
issued
by
bphc
during
earlier
phases
of
the
pandemic
included
an
advisory
requesting
residents
to
stay
home
during
certain
hours.
P
A
senior
housing
advisor
advisory,
limiting
visitation
in
an
order
establishing
supplemental
covert,
19
research
restrictions
requiring
businesses
to
return
back
to
phase
2
step
2
of
reopening
massachusetts
plan,
including
temporarily,
closing
gyms
movie,
theaters,
museums
tours
and
other
close
contact
businesses.
This
was
issued
on
december
14,
2020
and
rescinded
on
february,
1st
2021
other
business
restrictions.
I
should
note
were
also
issued
directly
from
the
city
of
boston,
where
they
could
be
enforced
through
the
licensing
board.
P
These
included
restrictions
on
restaurant
capacity,
such
as
those
that
were
issued
in
september
in
spring
of
2021.,
the
end
of
the
state
level
emergency
declaration
on
june
15th,
followed
by
the
increased
spread
of
the
delta
and
omicron
variants,
heightened
bphc's
responsibility
to
issue
public
health
guidance
and
orders
at
the
local
level.
Under
the
declaration
in
the
second
half
of
2021.
P
Namely
the
order
for
face
coverings
in
indoor
public
spaces,
the
eviction
moratorium,
the
declaration
of
a
public
health
crisis
related
to
unsheltered,
homelessness
and
substance
use
disorder,
and
the
now
rescinded
be
together.
Proof
of
vaccination
for
entry
into
indoor,
dining
entertainment
and
fitness
establishments
were
issued
after
the
end
of
the
state
declaration
under
bphc's
local
public
health
authori
emergency
declaration.
P
The
emergency
orders
that
bphc
has
taken
to
address
cloven
19
are
temporary
measures
that
were
necessary
to
prevent
the
spread
of
cova
19
and
reduce
the
burden
of
severe
illness
and
death.
We
believe
that,
in
addition
to
being
necessary,
they
were
consistent
with
both
our
authority
and
our
duty
to
protect
public
health
in
the
context
of
an
infectious
disease
pandemic
again
throughout
bphc's
covert
19
response,
our
response
efforts
have
end
policy.
Decisions
have
been
guided
by
the
best
available
public
health
data,
the
needs
of
the
community,
as
well
as
medical
and
infectious
disease
expertise.
Q
Well,
I
think
the
one
thing
I
wanted
to
add
is
that
there's
reason
to
be
optimistic
right
now.
I
can
give
you
our
most
updated
metrics,
our
community
positivity
rate
is
3.6
percent.
160
adults
are
currently
hospitalized
with
covid,
and
approximately
89
percent
of
our
icu
beds
are
full
um
we're
at
a
good
place
right
now,
and
all
of
our
metrics
are
are
trending
in
in
the
right
direction.
Q
So
I
think
that
our
decisions
are
going
to
be
guided
by
not
only
these
metrics,
but
all
the
other
factors
that
we
look
at
as
we
are
trying
to.
You
know
make
sure
that
our
boston
residents
are
safe.
We
will
be
having
a
board
meeting
holding
a
board
meeting
on
march
4th
and
that's
when
we
will
talk
more
about
the
emergency
order
as
well
as
any
you
know,
policies
that
are
that
fall
within
that
order.
A
P
A
P
That's
great
at
the
moment
we
have
um
the
the
two
seats
that
are
expired
are
philadelphised
and
guala
valdez
so
with
with
guali's
potential
reappointment.
That
would
be
one
community
health
center
seat,
um
and
then
you
know,
with
um
with
with
other
turnover,
we
would
sort
of
need
to
look
at
the
role
of
the
second
health
center
seat
in
in
future,
appointments.
B
I
just
want
to
thank
you
for
coming
today
doctor.
I
find
you
lovely
sorry
that
you
guys
are
on
the
hot
seat
here
today,
but
respectfully
I
have
questions
more
of
the
administration
across
the
hall
than
I
do
of
you
too.
um
Thank
you
for
for
the
work
that
you
do
doctor.
I
I
um
and
I
apologize
for
my
for
my
outburst
to
you
guys,
I'm
sorry,
you
were
sitting
here
waiting
pj,
it's
good
to
see
you
you
as
well
counselor.
B
J
um
Good
afternoon
I
just
wanted
to
say
thank
you.
We
don't
have
to
do
the
uh
foremost
uh
thank
yous
and
rituals,
but
um
for
my
heart
I
think
you
have
done
tremendous
work,
dr
ojukuku
as
well.
uh
I'm
sorry
uh
I
have
we
have
not
met.
Hopefully
we
can
connect
in
the
future,
my
condolences
to
your
family,
um
for
your
loss
um
and
thank
you
so
much
for
actually
working
up
the
strength
to
come
here
today.
um
Yeah.
J
K
Thank
you
so
much
for
being
here.
um
I,
and
if
you
don't,
have
an
answer
right
now,
maybe
you
can
follow
up
in
writing.
I
think,
when
I
discuss
the
in
my
opening
remarks,
the
question
of
what
is
an
emergency
and
how
that's
defined
what's
a
public
health
emergency
and
how?
How
do
you
define
that?
That
would
be
my
first
question
and
what
the
standards
are
like.
We
are
in
the
red
zone.
It
looks
like
this
and
is
it
only
specific
to
the
illness,
or
is
there
a
general
definition
of
a
public
health
emergency
right?
K
K
I
will
thank
you
to
both
of
you.
Actually,
I
think
of
the
meetings
that
we
have
had
with
the
mayor.
You
have
been
made
yourself
available,
but
that
seems
to
be
more
at
the
election
of
the
mayor.
Is
there
a
requirement
at
all
for
certain
reporting
in
certain
public
announcements
for
the
emergency
standards
and
then?
Finally,
I
am
curious
about
the
executive
powers
or
do
you
have
any
opinion
at
all
about
the
executive
powers
during
an
emergency.
Q
So
I
can.
I
can
start
with
that,
and
I
appreciate
your
question.
I
think
that,
in
terms
of
this
public
health
emergency,
what
we
are
using
to
define
it
is
a
series
of
evidence-based
data
points,
so
we're
looking
at
things
that
we've
discussed
previously,
such
as
our
hospital
capacity.
What
can
our
health
system
do
to
support
the
needs
of
patients
who
are
sick
when
our
hospital
capacity
is
stretched
and
there's
a
concern
that
we
might
not
be
able
to
take
care
of
people?
Q
You
know
who
are
who
are
in
dire
need,
then
that
becomes
an
emergency
when
we
know
that
community
transmission
is
high
and
particularly
when
we're
dealing
with
a
virus
that
we
know
will
lead
to
severe
illness,
then
that
is
an
emergency
also,
when
we
look
at
things
like
you
know,
icu
capacity,
which
is
why
it's
another
one
of
our
top
metrics
again.
Do
we
have
the
capacity
as
a
city
to
deal
with
people
who
are
extremely
ill?
Q
Those
are
the
metrics.
Beyond
that.
We
look
at
a
number
of
other
factors,
so
we
like
to
be
able
to
predict
emergency.
So
we
look
at
our
viral
wastewater
data,
which
I
think
is
a
very
important
metric
for
us
to
be
able
to
see
which,
which
way
things
are
going.
Looking
at
the
trend
in
terms
of
transmission
and
spread.
We
also
look
at
emergency
department
visits.
We
also
look
at
not
just
adult
hospitalizations,
but
also
pediatric
hospitalizations,
because
there
could
be
a
virus
that
impacts
younger
people
more
than
adults.
Q
So
it's
not
just
about
any
one
metric
or
any.
You
know
few
combinations
different
iterations
of
metrics.
It
really
is
looking
at
the
whole
picture
and,
looking
at
you
know
how
our
system,
how
our
population
is
managing
to
you
know
withstand
the
stress
of
some.
You
know
a
viral,
you
know
pathogen,
which
is
what
we
dealt
with
here.
So
I
think
that's.
I
think
that
if
that
helps
a
little
bit,
I.
K
Q
K
G
K
If
they're,
if
there's
anything
that
should
emerge
from
this
moment
in
these
two
years
and
having
to
live
and
understand
the
pandemic,
feeling
it
was
going
away,
then
it
was
coming
back.
Then
we
got
a
vaccination
and
so
on
and
so
forth.
I
hope
that
there's,
when
we
emerge
from
this
moment
uh
that
there
is
a
fundamental
three-point
test
or
something
that
you
can
say
on
public
health
crisis
mode.
This
is
when
we
are
an
emergency.
I
really
do
hope
we
can
get
there
because
it
clearly
people
don't
trust
science
like
they
used
to
before.
K
They
don't
trust,
they
trust
their
own
eyes.
They
trust
their
own
experience
and
I
can't
imagine
a
way
to
further
that
divide
and
trust
than
not
not
having
a
an
emerged
clear
standard
for
an
emergency.
So
I
I
you,
don't
have
it
right
now.
You
shouldn't
have
it
right
now,
but
I
hope
that
that
is
something
that
you
can
get
to.
That
is
beyond
just
covid,
because
it's
if
it's
not
cold
it'll
be
something
else
we
don't
know
yet,
and
I
want
people
to
trust
the
government
again.
K
P
P
So
you
know
before
march
of
2020
it
was
sort
of
an
unused
and
untested
protocol,
but
sort
of
the
frameworks
of
that
were
whether
the
incident
created
a
significant
impact
of
the
community
and
increased
the
demands
for
core
public
health
functions
and
it
added
for
covert
19,
as
well
as
likelihood
for
community
transmission.
If
you're
sort
of
remembering
back
to
sort
of
that
that
time
when
this
was
declared,
you
know
we
weren't.
P
Looking
at
metrics,
we
were
looking
at
the
32
cases
that
we
had
and
whether
they
were
spreading
in
the
community,
and
so
um
you
know.
I
do
think
that
your
observation
is
is
well
taken
that
I
think,
after
you
know,
after
action
planning
that
will
happen
after
cloven.
19
should
include
an
examination
of
the
legal
frameworks,
because
a
lot
of
these
things
that
you
know
we
used
were
protocols
of
the
boston,
public,
health,
commission
and
weren't
written
down
in
any
state
regulation
or
law.
P
Q
Just
think
it's
important
because
you
articulated
something
that
I
think
is
is
really
powerful
about
this
moment.
um
This
is
a
moving
target.
You
know
this.
The
science
is
evolving
evolving,
extremely
quickly.
We're
trying
to,
I
think
everybody
you
know
globally,
is
trying
to
keep
up
with
that
and
some
of
the
information
that
we're
giving
you
now
may
change.
You
know
our
thresholds
may
change
as
we
move
along
and
we
see
new
variants,
and
we
see
this
this
this
virus
evolve
over
time.
Q
I
think
that's
going
to
be
just
a
part
of
how
we
have
to
be
able
to
communicate
to
our
communities
that
you
know
there
are
many
unknowns
here
and
that
we
will
work
together
and
try
to
be
as
transparent
as
possible.
Try
to
communicate
that
as
as
much
as
possible,
so
that
we
can,
as
I
said,
keep
everyone
as
safe
as
safe
as
we
can.
K
And
I
recognize
that
challenge,
I'm
sorry,
councillor
murphy.
I
recognize
that
challenge
that
you
are.
We
are
in
a
moving
target,
but
you
know
what
what
isn't
moving
or
what
I
wouldn't
say,
what
what
is
it
moving,
but
something
that
is
seen
that
is
measurable
is
how
many
beds
are
occupied
in
the
hospital.
You
know
how
many
folks
are
in
the
icu,
if
those
I'm
just
wondering,
if
you
mean
the
number
and
the
percentage
that
triggers
the
emergency
may
change
depending
on
the
disease,
but
is
that
what
you're?
K
Looking
at
that's
my
point
right,
we're
looking
at
this
this
this
and
this
and
because
of
the
way
this
is
translated,
because
it's
we're
just
talking
it's
this
percentage
for
that
it's
this
percentage
for
that
it's
this
percentage.
For
that
that
would
help
me.
I
think
that
would
help
a
lot
of
people
um
waking
up
knowing
okay.
This
is
how
many
beds
we
have
and
that's
what
that
mean.
This
is
what
that
means
in
terms
of
us
heading
in
the
right
direction.
K
Again,
I
mean
covet,
isn't
over
us,
but
we're
clearly
over
covered
and
we're
exhausted
by
it,
and
I
think
if
people
had
something
that
they
felt
that
they
could
measure
that
was
consistent.
That
was
um
what
we
all
can
look
to.
I
think
that
would
help
and
right
now
I
feel
like
some
people,
many
people
feel
like
it's
a
moving
target,
but
we're
an
emergency
yeah.
N
N
uh
He
was
hugely
responsible
for
that,
um
the
investment
that
we
see
tapping
into
the
uh
the
colleges,
the
universities,
our
healthcare
system,
life
sciences,
financial
services,
somehow
some
way
paul-
was
able
to
sort
of
intertwine
all
of
that
and
encourage
more
folks
to
come
here
to
do
business
here,
so
a
huge
loss
uh
for
you
and
family,
obviously,
and
and
he'll,
be
thought
fondly
and
missed
in
our
city.
So
I
just
want
to
offer
uh
those
kind
words.
Thank.
N
You
had
mentioned
um
the
board
of
health
in
2020,
met
seven
times
and
then
in
2021
they
met
six
times
so
how
how
often
do
they
normally
meet?
I
almost
fell
off
the
chair.
I'm
thinking
they're
meeting
weekly
we're
in
a
pandemic
right
where
things
are
moving
fast
here
right
we
got
to
meet,
we
got
to
meet,
we
got
to
meet,
we
got
someone
in
hawaii,
I
don't
know
who
that
person
is,
but
I
remember
someone
was
that
was
a
horrible
look.
N
I
don't
even
know
if
they're
still
on
this
board
or
not,
but
you
get
someone
in
hawaii
and
you're
only
meeting
six
or
seven
times
it
feels
like
someone
was
abdicating
their
responsibility
to
be
two
hands
on
the
wheel,
making
public
health
decisions
in
a
pandemic.
Can
you
explain
to
me
how
we're
only
meeting
six
or
seven
times
in
those
two.
P
So
you
know
scheduling,
I
think
is,
is
a
challenge,
so
we're
always
trying
to
strike
the
right
balance
about
how
to
use
their
time
what
can
be
communicated
uh
unidirectionally
from
us
to
them
without
violating
the
open
meeting
law,
keeping
them
informed
using
them
for
the
the
guidance
that
the
executive
director
is
sort
of
entitled
to
from
them
without
monopolizing
their
time.
But
we
certainly
hear
that
observation
that
that
more
regular
meetings
is
something
that
we
may
consider.
N
And
then,
to
maybe
pick
up
on
my
colleagues
questioning
referencing
a
moving
target.
We've
got
the
best
hospitals,
arguably
the
best
hospitals
in
the
world,
and
we've
got
the
best
network
of
community
health
centers.
We
are
well
positioned
in
a
public
health
crisis
to
handle
us
much
better
than
a
lot
of
other
cities,
our
size,
bigger
or
smaller.
Many
of
those
cities
who
don't
have
our
um
our
public
health
horsepower
have
opened
up
right,
we're
only
meeting
six
or
seven
times.
We've
got
someone
in
hawaii.
N
Like
can
you
understand
the
frustration
as
an
elected
member
representing
the
entire
city,
but
our
constituents
basically
saying
what
the
heck's
going
on
here,
who's
who's,
making
these
decisions
and
does
someone
have
two
hands
on
the
wheel,
who's
this
person
in
hawaii?
Why
they
only
mean
six
or
seven
times?
We've
got
the
best
hospitals
in
the
world.
We've
got
tons
of
hospitals,
we've
got
tens
of
health
centers.
N
Other
cities
would
would
cut
their
arm
off
to
have
our
healthcare
horsepower
are
we
are
we
are
we
are
we
maxing
them
yeah
we
tapping
into
that
or
we
just
sort
of
go
hey.
This
is
great
feeding.
Pajamas
we're
going
to
stay
on
zoom
right.
Do
any
of
these
board
members
own
a
business?
Are
they
responsible
for
payroll
and
insurance?
N
um
Are
they
giving
any
thought
to
the
small
business
person
or
the
the
blue-collar
worker
at
home?
Again
I
just
don't
know
what
was
going
through
folks
heads
111
chapter
111
gives
you
broad-based
powers
and
a
pandemic,
but
no
one
says:
hey.
We
gotta
we
gotta
meet
weekly
this.
This
is
some
serious
business
we're
in
a
pandemic.
We
gotta
meet.
N
Instead,
it's
you're
meeting
every
other
month.
I
gotta
tell
you
I've,
I
I
have
zero
confidence,
I've
lost
confidence
and
then
I
guess,
like
the
question,
is
when
you
look
at
other
communities
when
decisions
are
being
made
around
the
mass
mandate
or
the
vaccine,
all
that
stuff.
We
see
that
in
those
communities
we're
reading
the
newspapers
and
we're
seeing
that
those
boards
of
health,
those
health
commissions
they're
making
the
decision
and
then
when
it
came
here,
I
think
everyone's
like
oh
pass
the
buck.
Let's
we're
not
going
to
meet
again
until
next
march.
N
You
know,
let's
uh
over
everyone's
ducking
and
sidestepping
the
responsibility
of
the
public
health
commission,
is
to
take
all
that
information,
whether
they're
metrics,
whether
there's
moving
targets.
We
know
that
we
got
huge
horsepower
behind
us
and
then
morphs
into
the
next
question
over
the
last
couple
of
years.
How
many
people
have
died
from
the
flu
from
pneumonia
from
congestive
heart
failure
from
organ
failure
from
emphysema
right
compared
to
prior
years,
everybody
pile
them
in
everybody's.
Everybody
died
of
cover,
19.
N
we've
seen
hospitals
and
health
centers
who
were
in
the
red
are
now
in
the
black.
It's
almost
like,
arguably,
could
be
someone's
it's
almost
a
ruse.
So
I
need
those
figures
I
want.
I
need
to
know
in
the
last
two
years
how
many
people
have
died
of
the
flu
and
then
how
many
people
died
of
the
flu
in
2015
2016
2017.
N
No
one's
going
to
believe
you,
no
one's
going
to
listen
to
you,
so
I
know
I'm
opining
and
I've
weaved
in
some
questions
in
that,
and
arguably
you
can
sense
my
frustration
because
those
are
the
calls-
those
are
the
emails
that
come
in
across
the
city
to
my
office
uh
and
it's
not
gonna.
Look
like
the
game
that
that
they
can't
shoot
straight
when
you're.
Looking
at
other
cities
that
don't
have
our
healthcare
horsepower
are
they're
open
businesses,
they're
back
to
kids
are
back
to
school.
Things
are
up
and
running.
P
I
will
say
we're
we're
confident
our
in
our
application
of
uh
you
know:
111
sections,
30
and
31.
The
appeals
court
has
agreed
with
us,
um
but
you
know
we.
That
said,
we
do
believe
that
there's
um
you
know
an
important
value
in
making
sure
that
the
community
feels
heard
we.
You
know,
we
hear
it
loud
and
clear
that
uh
that
certain
members
of
the
community
don't
feel
heard
by
you
know
an
appointed
board
making
policy.
P
There
is
something
sort
of
that
is
um
subject
to
criticism
about
that,
and
uh
we
we
certainly
take
the
point
that
you
know
as
we
think
about
future
god
forbid
pandemics.
You
know
what
we
might
do
differently
or
better.
I
I
do
think
that
commute
that
communication
with
the
community
and
involvement.
You
know
we
have
tried
with
certain
advisory
boards
and
other.
You
know:
community
engagement,
community
presentations,
funding
to
the
community-based
organizations
to
help
us
do
the
work,
but,
but
we
do
hear
loud
and
clear
that
that
there
is
sort
of
a
gap
there.
N
P
They
are
in
person
at
10,
10,
mass
aven.
On
the
second
floor
during
the
pandemic,
uh
you
know,
while
that,
while
the
governor's
order
and
and
sort
of
the
law
that
replaced,
it
remains
in
effect
for
the
next
month,
or
so
they
will
be
on
zoom,
but
we
will
transition
back
to
in
person
or
hybrid
um
at
a
certain
point.
So
we'll
keep
the
public
posted
about
that,
but
those
those
meetings
are
on
with
other
public
meeting
notices
very.
N
Good
and
then
also
what
impacts,
if
any
do
surrounding
municipalities
have
on
some
of
those
public
health
policies.
When
we
saw
we
saw
the
the
mandate
come
in
here
for
boston,
uh
we
saw
a
lot
of
elected
officials
in
those
neighborhoods
showed
up
for
the
press
conference,
talking
a
big
game
right
and
then
they
went
back
home
and
that's
not
how
it
rolled
and
their
places
were
open
right.
So
when
you
live
in
east
boston,
you
can't
go
to
your
local
bistro
or
your
local.
N
Cafe
you
go
to
somerville
right
or
if
you're
in
west
roxbury
you
go
to
denim
or
when
you're
dorchester
you
go
to
uh
you
go
to
quincy.
Other
businesses
were
picking
our
pocket
picking
our
pocket
because
we
we
were
in
lockdown
mode.
Everybody
else
showed
up
talking
a
big
game
right
and
we
went
back
to
their
public
health
boards
and
their
public
health
commissioners
and
they
got
the
nope
right,
but
we
stuck
with
it
and
businesses
suffered.
So
I
guess,
and
then
the
next
next
meeting
our
our
board
meets
hey
dave.
N
You
see
what's
going
on
over
there
and
here
and
here
any
of
that
go
into
any
of
the
thought
process.
Hey.
Maybe
we
ought
to
cr
we're
crushing
small
businesses
we're
crushing
the
restaurant.
Maybe
we
need
to.
Maybe
we
should
how
about
if
we
try
any
of
that
go
into
any
of
this
equation,
or
is
it
just
like
nope?
N
It's
just
the
mayor
said:
that's
what
we're
going
to
do
and
just
so
it's
going
to
do
and
everybody
else
around
us
is
open
and
on
all
cylinders,
yeah
and
then
our
business
owners,
our
small
business
owners,
our
restaurants,
our
shops
can't
keep
the
doors
open,
don't
have
any
customers
etcetera.
So
I
want
to
know
what
I
guess,
what
other
factors
go
into
decisions
that
are
made
at
that
level.
P
First,
I
would
say
you
know
we
do
certainly
prefer
statewide
policies,
you
know
wherever
you
know,
we
thought
the
the
order.
The
emergency
orders
at
the
state
level
were
were
sort
of
sufficient
or
generally
on
the
right
track.
We
didn't
do
something
different
just
to
do
something
different
and
you
know
failing
that.
We
have
tried
to
work
with
other
communities
surrounding
us
to
get
as
much
uniformity,
because
we
we
do
appreciate
the
impact
it
has
on
businesses
when,
when
different
communities
have
different
rules,
so
you
know
we've.
We
have
tried
to
do
that.
P
I
think
our
ability
to
um
use
our
executive
authority
to
to
get
some
of
these
things
done
has
has
allowed
us
to
be
out
in
front
of
some
other
communities,
but
um
but
I
do
think
it's
it's
definitely.
You
know
municipal
community,
you
know
coordination
across.
You
know
the
metropolitan
municipalities,
I
think,
is
another
thing
to
to
add
to
our
um
our
planning
for
how
to
do
things
better
in
the
future.
If
something
like
this
were
to
happen,.
N
And
so
through
the
chair
are
votes
taken
all
in
favor,
say
aye
all
opposed,
say.
No.
You
know
emotion
on
the
floor.
Does
that
happen
there
did
any
motion
take
place
with
respect
to
the
mask
mandate
in
boston.
Any
motion
for
the
vaccine
mandate
in
boston
did
someone
make
a
motion
and
that
it
was
an
ini
and
an
a
and
what
was
what
what
was
the
vote
count
on
that
so.
P
Let's
say
that
the
delegation
from
march
17
2020
delegated
the
authority
to
the
executive
director
to
issue
additional
directives,
and
each
of
these
orders
were
subsequent
additional
directives.
We
certainly
informed
the
board
and
um
and
gave
them
updates
about
them
afterwards,
but
but
that
is
sort
of
the
the
legal
vehicle
that
we
that
we
issued
these
under
and.
N
So,
almost
two
years
ago,
that's
correct
right.
So
through
you
to
your
board,
let
them
know
council
flag
says
they
got
to
get
in
the
game.
They
got
to
meet
more
often
we're
in
a
pandemic.
We
got
businesses
suffering,
we
get
kids
on.
We've
missed
two
years
of
education.
Time
is,
let's
ring
the
bell:
let's
get
back
to
the
table
and
let's
start
making
decisions
that
are
sound
that
are
reasonable.
That
are
practical.
That
are
fair,
that
take
into
effect,
obviously
the
science,
but
also
what
other
neighboring
communities
around
us
are
doing.
N
G
Q
N
F
N
P
P
You
know,
monitor
the
situation
the
days
between
now
and
then,
um
as
we
think,
through
what
our
recommendations
to
them
are,
but
we,
you
know,
hearing
um
you
know,
hearing
that
um
that
there
is
an
urgent
need
to
meet
with
them.
We
tried
to
get
a
meeting
on
the
books
as
soon
as
we
could,
and
that
is
um
that's
that's
the
date.
N
Yeah
disappointed
that
we're
meeting
more
often
might
might
be
a
conversation.
Maybe
we
should
have
been
elected.
Maybe
we
should
have
an
elected
board
of
health
or
public
health
commission
so
that
constituents
residents
can
uh
meet
them,
see
them
engage
them
more
often,
just
like
they
do,
as
as
city
council
is
here
as
opposed
to
we're
in
a
pandemic,
and
it
seems
like
they,
they
were
kind
of.
The
schedule
was
a
little
late
six
to
seven
times
in
the
middle
of
a
pandemic.
N
A
Last
friday
they
decided
not
to
come,
but
I
do
think
that
we
will
probably
be
holding
a
hearing
soon
so
that
they
can
talk
about
the
um
monetary
and
the
suffering
that
they
have
had.
So
I
just
wanted
to
be
clear
that
they
were
part
of
this.
If
we
were
holding
this
last
week,
they
would
have
been
part
of
this.
Thank
you.
B
B
P
B
Q
Q
So
I
don't
know
that
that
necessarily
changes
our
approach,
I
mean
our
approach
is
to
look
at
the
data
and
to
determine
what
we
think
is
in
the
best
interest
of
the
population
based
on
consultation
with
not
just
the
board,
but
with
our
coven
19
advisory
committee,
which
is
17
members
more
than
half
of
whom
are
not
medical
doctors.
They
are
people
who
are
business
owners.
They
are
people
who
are
community
advocates.
Q
In
addition
to
that,
we
meet
with
our
community
community
organizations.
Once
a
week
in
an
open
town
hall,
we
are
doing
constant
community
engagement,
so
I
just
want
to
be
clear
that
this
isn't
you
know
this
isn't
about
unilateral
decision
making.
I
do
agree
with
councillor
flattery,
that
we
can
we've
taken.
Note
that
you
know
we
will
have
you
know,
meeting
the
meeting
with
the
board
and
we
will
discuss
with
them
them
meeting
more
often
to
discuss
these
issues.
But
it's
not
that
engagement
has
not
been
occurring
throughout
this
entire
process.
Q
B
Thank
you
um
for
me.
It
is
about
unilateral
decision
making.
For
me,
I
represent
75
000
people.
I
I
got
a
20-minute
advance
about
the
political
rally
press
conference
that
happened
downstairs.
I
feel
offended
um
definitely
unilaterally
applied
um
so
I'll
leave
it
at
that,
and
thank
you
guys
for
your
time
today.
G
A
G
A
So,
thank
you
to
our
third
and
final
panel.
Before
we
go
to
public
testimony,
um
we
can
start.
If
that
is
fine,
we'll
go
this
way.
Could
we
start
with
you
sure?
Are
you
going
to
start?
Okay,
absolutely
go
ahead,
just
remember
to
um
state
your
name,
um
your
address
and
identify
your
affiliation.
We
appreciate
that.
Thank
you.
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
Lastly,
my
quote,
which
has
been
our
resounding
motto
and
spit
it
with
spirit
within
bfru
freedom,
was
born
in
boston,
we're
not
going
to
let
it
die
here
too.
Thank
you
for
lending
your
ear.
I
hope
that
you
have
heard.
I
hope
that
what
you
have
heard
thus
far
and
still
ahead,
will
remain
in
your
hearts
and
minds.
Thank
you
I'll
leave
it
to
my
constituents
to
my
colleagues.
U
Good
afternoon,
madam
chairman
councilman
baker.
Thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
address
you
here
today.
My
name
is
william
gins
and
I
represent
bfru
boston,
first
responders
united,
I've
previously
and
still
do
represent
a
mass,
a
large
massachusetts
state
police
group,
as
well
as
numerous
small
businesses
that
defied
either
the
lockdowns
or
the
mask
orders
or
both.
U
U
My
approach
to
the
lawsuits
that
I
have
been
involved
with
has
been
based
around
asking
questions
asking
some
very
basic
questions
such
as
is
there
scientific
validation
for
the
measures
that
have
been
imposed
on
our
society
and
my
scientific
validation?
I
do
not
mean
the
opinions
or
theories
of
so-called
experts
or
government
officials
or
authorities.
I
mean
scientifically
validated
data
in
the
way
of
clinical
trials
in
the
way
of
peer-reviewed
laboratory
analysis
and
research
papers.
It's
been
two
years
and
the
answer
to
those
questions
is
across
the
board.
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
They
serve
the
purpose
of
perpetrating
a
myth
that
these
vaccines,
prevent
infections
and
thus
herd
people
into
taking
them.
Thinking
that
they're
getting
something
that
they're.
Not
it's
made
those
a
statement
like
that
is
made
with
what
we
lawyers
call
reckless
disregard
for
the
truth,
which
is
an
element
of
fraud,
a
fraud
upon
the
public.
U
Therefore,
we
requested
all
data,
information,
etc,
not
opinions,
not
gov,
pronouncements
or
cdc
statements
or
anything
but
actual
data
of
the
long-term
effect
safety
of
the
vaccines,
which,
of
course,
nobody
has,
and,
of
course
they
have
not
responded
to
the
four
year
requests.
Nor
do
we
expect
that
they
will
absent
some
prolonged
litigation.
U
That
is
the
the
style
of
governance
that
we're
receiving
from
these
public
health
commissions
and
from
this
mayoral
administration
it
is
not
transparent,
it
is
not
honest
and
it
it
involves
the
exposure
of
the
public
to
unknown
dangers,
because
this
is
an
experimental
treatment,
an
experimental
vaccine.
We
can't
there's
no
getting
around
that
and
no
no,
no,
not
one
of
them
is
approved
by
for
use
by
the
fda,
not
that
that
would
necessarily
allay
all
our
concerns,
but
just
just
to
be
clear
that
it's
experimental.
U
Other
things
are
raising
the
fifth
circuit
in
sambrano
versus
united
airlines
on
february,
17th
also
came
out
with
a
ruling
reversing
the
denial
of
an
injunction
based
upon
discrimination
on
the
vaccines,
the
and
a
case
that
I'd
like
to
bring
to
your
attention.
That
is
significant
for
your
concerns.
R
R
R
The
emergency
is
that
religious
freedom
is
under
assault,
it's
under
extraordinary
assault,
and
there
is
a
unprecedented
civil
rights
crisis
right
here
in
boston.
This
I
don't
know
if
you
can
see
it.
This
is
a
rock
from
dachau,
the
very
first
german
concentration
camp.
It
was
presented
to
me
two
years
ago
by
the
grandson
of
a
u.s
army
veteran
from
massachusetts
who
liberated
that
cow
on
29th
of
april
1945..
R
R
R
Surely
you
are
aware
that
the
holocaust
did
not
begin
with
death
camps
or
even
at
kristallnacht.
It
began
years
before
in
the
early
30s,
when
jews,
gypsies
and
other
biological
inferiors
were
marginalized,
banned
from
banned
from
work,
school
and
public
places,
and
this
eventually
turned
into
a
bloody
assault
on
humanity.
R
R
The
beams
under
which
we
are
presently
sitting
will
likewise
testify
to
the
crimes
against
humanity
that
are
being
perpetrated
right
here
under
the
false
pretense
of
public
health,
as
prophet
khabakook
wrote
for
a
stone
shall
cry
from
the
wall
and
a
chip
shall
answer
it
from
a
beam.
Woe
to
him
who
builds
a
city
with
blood
discrimination
and
establishes
a
city
with
injustice.
R
My
friends,
there
are
values
in
life
that
transcend
life
itself,
and
that
is
the
value
of
freedom.
We
cannot
suppress
freedom
and
individual
liberties
in
the
name
of
an
alleged
public
health
of
alleged
public
health.
That's
exactly
what
germans
did
to
my
ancestors.
In
30s,
jews
were
accused
of
being
public
health
risks
for
typhus.
Their
scientists
supported
this
claim
and
actual
data
of
illnesses
and
ghettos
was
cited
to
justify
their
grave
injustices.
R
Please
don't
believe
the
species
claims
that
all
major
world
religions
support
this
medical
tyranny
and
this
particular
vaccine.
That
is
utter
falsehood.
I
am
here
to
represent
the
world's
original
abrahamic
faith.
The
torah.
The
torah
is
fundamentally
opposed
to
this
vaccine,
based
on
numerous
scriptures
too
many
to
enumerate
here,
but
most
prominently
because
of
the
sanctity
of
human
life,
our
opposition
to
the
desecration
of
any
human
body,
aborted
or
otherwise.
R
But
not
your
mandates
are
an
egregious
assault
on
my
religion,
but
not
only
that
these
tyrannical
policies
are
an
assault
on
the
very
basis
of
religion
that
every
individual
is
fashioned
in
the
image
of
our
divine
creator
and
hence
are
endowed
with
inalienable
rights.
Please
stop
assaulting
these
rights,
stop
hiding
behind
policy,
unjust
laws
and
plausible
deniability.
R
The
supreme
court
is
capable
of
committing
supreme
injustice
and
supreme
evil.
Let's
not
forget
that
the
shockingly
unjust
rulings
of
buck
versus
bell
and
jacobson
versus
massachusetts
were
cited
in
defense
of
nazi
war
criminals,
who
had
force-injected
concentration
camp
prisoners
without
informed
consent
with
vaccines
that
caused
them
to
become
sterilized
in
the
name
of
basic
human
decency.
R
R
It's
it
may
be
that
we
are
the
evil
we
are
dealing
with
is
not
nazism
or
communism,
but
it
is
a
closely
related
variant,
the
disease
of
intolerance
and
medical
tyranny.
Let
us
desist
from
these
tyrannical
ways
by
reaffirming
our
sacred
duty
to
preserve
freedom
and
individual
bodily
sovereignty
at
all
costs.
May
we
merit
the
conclusion
of
the
scripture
I
cited
above
for
the
earth
shall
be
filled
with
freedom
and
the
knowledge
of
the
glory
of
god,
as
water
covers
the
ocean
bed.
Thank
you.
V
V
I
have
lived
in
boston
all
of
my
life
and
have
had
the
privilege
to
attend
swampscott
public
schools
from
kindergarten
to
12th
grade
via
the
medco
program.
I
have
been
a
boston
public
schools,
employee
since
september
2012.,
in
every
job
that
I've
had.
I
have
always
worked
in
positions
that
office
offered
services
to
our
youth,
who
are
underserved
because
of
color
socioeconomic
status
or
disabilities.
V
A
few
of
these
jobs
range
from
working
at
roxbury,
comprehensive
health
center
and
adolescent
care.
I
was
the
director
of
lena
park
l-e-n-a
and
that
stands
for
linking
educators,
achievers
and
parents.
Through
the
leap
program.
I
worked
at
umass
boston
as
an
undergraduate
assistant
director
of
admissions.
V
I
have
not
been
vaccinated
for
my
own
personal
reasons,
yet
there
throughout
the
pandemic,
I
remain
committed
as
a
teacher
to
the
students
and
other
staff
members
within
my
school
community.
I
chose
the
option
of
weekly
testing
over
getting
vaccinated.
I
continue
to
upload
my
weekly
results.
Wear
my
mask
clean,
my
workspace
and
those
of
my
students,
open
windows
and
do
a
variety
of
other
things
to
keep
my
body
healthy,
I'm
working
hard
to
continue
to
stay
healthy.
I
know
that
it
is
these
efforts
that
have
kept
me
from
contracting
covert.
V
Even
while
there
are
teachers
and
staff
around
me
who
are
fully
vaccinated
and
boosted
that
have
contracted
covet
once
or
more
times
individually,
deciding
not
to
get.
The
vaccine
was
not
a
decision
that
I
or
any
of
the
other
employees
bps
employees
made
lightly.
For
a
multitude
of
reasons.
Each
employee
made
personal
decisions
about
their
health
and
personal
care.
V
V
V
Somerville,
cambridge
and
connecticut
are
just
a
few
neighboring
communities
who
have
dropped
their
mandates
in
response
to
understanding
that
the
mandate
does
more
harm
than
good.
We
have
been
told
by
jessica
tang
that
you
are
meaning
the
superintendent
in
mayor
wood
wu.
You
are
digging
in
your
heels
because
we
are
gathering
to
make
noise
about
the
disregard
of
the
signed
agreement
that
authorize
the
choice
of
vaccination
or
weekly
testing.
V
I
find
this
response
to
making
our
voices
heard
disturbing
and
representative
of
not
caring
in
a
spirit
of
integrity,
humility
and
consciousness
of
the
and
I
put
in
parentheses,
unintentional
consequences
of
this
mandate.
We
entered
this
year
with
an
agreement
that
we
assumed
the
administration
would
uphold.
V
Superintendent
concealers,
you
have
strived
to
be
transparent,
as
is
evidence
in
making
great
efforts
to
keep
us
informed
and
being
accountable
to
us
with
your
weekly
updates
to
bps
employees.
To
that
end,
I
encourage
you
that
you
will
highly
consider
consider
to
uphold
the
choice
of
vaccination
or
weekly
testing
offered
to
bps
staff.
Sincerely
paula
taylor.
V
V
I
heard
the
last
two
speak
about
what
the
red,
yellow
and
green
zones
mean,
and
my
main
question
was:
what
does
that
have
to
do
with
us
teachers
who
have
chosen
not
to
get
vaccinated,
especially
the
red
zone?
It
seems
so
arbitrary
if
some
metrics
change,
I
haven't
heard
anything
said
about
metrics,
changing
specifically
for
people
contracting
covered
who
are
unvaccinated
or
vaccinated.
It's
just
the
metrics
are
going
to
change
and
us
teachers
could
lose
our
jobs
be
kicked
out.
V
V
I
don't
know
how
you
asked
for
my
religious
exemption
and
there
were
religious
exemptions.
100
were
turned
down
and
not
considered.
These
are
people
who
are
pouring
out
their
heart.
I
wasn't
one
who
wore
my
beliefs
on
my
my
sleeve.
I
lived
that
life,
but
never
have
I
voiced
it.
Never
have
I
written
it
down
only
to
be
told
that
my
religious
belief
is
unreasonable
and
then
I
put
my
students
in
harm's
way.
W
W
I
appreciate
all
the
speakers
here
that
spoke
before
the
speakers
that
I'm
here
with
today
my
name
is
adam
marshall.
I
live
at
24
del
aven
hyde
park.
I
moved
to
boston
as
soon
as
I
got
out
of
the
marines
in
uh
2004,
I'm
a
boston
resident,
a
father,
a
veteran
and
a
firefighter,
I'm
speaking
on
behalf
of
myself,
like
everyone
here,
I've
been
dealing
with
covert
19
for
the
past
two
years.
W
W
What
I
didn't
know
was
that
the
vaccine
would
not
prevent
covid
would
not
prevent
covert
infection
or
that
covid
would
still
spread
among
the
vaccinated
and
unvaccinated.
I
also
didn't
know
that
I
might
suffer
injury
from
the
vaccination.
I
stand
here
now,
as
I
sit
here
comfortably
a
40
year
old
non-smoker.
Otherwise
healthy
man
who
rides
the
pan
mass
challenge,
was
200
miles.
You
know
in
two
days,
with
a
descending
aortic
aneurysm
discovered
only
when
I
began
to
displace
symptoms
after
receiving
two
rounds
of
moderna
in
february
of
last
year,
I'm
not
anti-vaccination.
W
I
am
sure
that
many
mandating
any
medical
treatment
without
knowing
how
it
will
affect
the
person
or
whether
they
have
a
condition
that
might
be
exacerbated
by
it
is
wrong
and
no
one
should
have
the
power
to
do
so.
I
am
not
the
same
since
this
pandemic
began.
None
of
us
are
my
heart.
Never
will
be.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
G
S
My
name
is
shayna
catone,
I'm
the
president
of
boston,
first
responders
united
first
I'd
like
to
say
thank
you
to
councillors,
murphy
and
councillor
baker
for
this
opportunity
for
this
uh
hearing.
That
should
have
happened
a
long
time
ago.
It
should
have
happened
multiple
times
throughout
this
pandemic.
It
shouldn't
have
been
one
and
done
and
it
shouldn't
have
been
done.
The
first
time
today.
S
um
Before
I
begin,
you
know,
I
look
around
this
room
and
I
noticed
it's
empty.
You
two
are
sitting
here
now
we
had
a
couple
of
other
counselors
sitting
here
and
now
they're
gone.
I
want
to
put
that
on
the
record,
because
you
know
we're
not
unions
we're
just
regular
people.
Some
aren't
even
first
responders
um
just
regular
people
who
want
to
hear
that
have
their
voices
heard,
and
I
think
it's
important
to
to
get
that
on
the
record.
S
Most
of
that
testimony
has
been
born
out
of
trauma,
pain
and
destruction
of
the
last
two
years
here
in
boston,
due
in
part
to
covet
19,
but
not
all
of
it.
Some
of
it
has
been
human-made
a
maelstrom
of
politically
motivated
policies
that
never
did
eradicate,
eradicate
covet
19,
nor
bring
us
back
to
normal.
S
This
erosion
of
liberties
was
done
in
part
through
unchecked
unilateral
decision
making
by
politicians
and
unelected
bureaucrats
who
failed
to
take
public
sentiment
and
needs
into
account,
as
these
decisions
were
being
made,
decisions
which
impacted
us
all.
Ironically,
many
of
these
politicians,
some
who
should
be
sitting
in
this
very
chamber,
ran
on
platforms
of
transparency
and
community
engagement.
S
S
Open
forums
of
discussion
and
debate
such
as
this
one,
which
we're
engaged
in
today
were
relegated
to
zoom
calls
where
constituents
and
others
could
be
muted
or
booted
if
their
views
or
temperaments
were
perceived
as
unsavory
or
unpopular
voices
opposed
to
lockdowns
mandates
and
mandates
for
vaccinations
by
the
way
which
don't
stop.
Transmission
of
the
virus.
S
Mandates
for
mass
et
cetera
have
been
labeled
as
conspiracy,
theorists,
anti-science
or
threats
to
public
health.
Critics
of
policymakers
and
politicians
have
been
labeled
as
racist
and
misogynist
without
a
shred
of
evidence
to
support
these
claims
as
a
means
to
silent
dissident
opinion
and
I'd
like
to
circle
back
to
what
councilor
fernandez
anderson
said.
S
If
there's
any
allegations
as
the
counselor
said
of
stalking
the
mayor,
then
there
must
be
evidence
to
support
that
words
matter
and
what
the
counselor
said
today,
accusing
protesters
or
any
citizen
of
raising
their
voice
and
protesting.
As
stalking,
that's
serious,
it's
untrue
and
it's
dangerous
to
label
those
exercising
their
voice.
S
All
we
ever
wanted
was
to
have
a
conversation
and
to
be
heard
to
discuss
with
decision
makers
the
very
policies
that
would
impact
our
lives,
our
careers,
our
children
and
our
businesses
in
a
free
society
that
should
be
a
given,
not
something
to
be
begged,
for
we
waited
and
waited.
Then
we
waited
more.
The
emergency
has
been
gone
for
quite
some
time.
Yet
mayor
wu
continues
to
ignore
and
stonewall.
S
Some
of
what
we
have
learned
over
the
last
two
years
or
so,
is
that
the
rush
to
provide
a
sense
of
safety,
a
feeling
of
security,
has
caused
much
more
destruction
than
covid19
could
have
ever
done
on
its
own.
We
have
seen
a
cascade
of
mental
health
crises
in
boston,
substance,
use
disorders
and
overdoses
are
increasing
at
alarming
rates.
Suicide
attempts
among
children
have
risen
in
a
boston
globe
article
it
was
written
yesterday.
S
The
literature
is
now
beginning
to
pour
in
the
loss
of
life,
doesn't
begin
and
end
only
with
a
novel
global
virus,
sociologists
and
others
will
document
how
the
extended
unnecessary
social
isolation
caused
by
ill-thought
policies
of
lockdowns,
social,
distancing
and
forced
vaccination
have
fractured
our
society
in
ways
that
will
have
pervasive
long-lasting
consequences
for
decades
to
come.
The
division
brought
by
language,
such
as
a
pandemic
of
the
unvaccinated,
will
be
hard
to
scrub
from
the
nation
from
our
nation's
soul.
S
In
2006,
the
world
health
organization
noted
that
the
1918
lockdown
response
to
the
spanish
flu
simply
did
not
work,
so
why
did
we
do
it
again?
What
else
will
elected
officials
continue
to
do
in
the
name
of
safety,
with
methods
proven
to
not
work
and
with
powers
not
granted
to
them
by
we?
The
people
I
will
close
with
this?
S
Can
the
city
of
boston
afford
to
litigate
all
of
the
lawsuits
that
are
currently
coming
in
and
which
will
inevitably
continue
to
come
in
if
these
policies
remain
intact?
Is
that
a
wise
use
of
taxpayer
money?
Does
the
wu
administration
intend
on
keeping
boston
in
a
perpetual
state
of
emergency
so
that
federal
funding
keeps
filling
city
coffers
to
fund
her
reimagination
projects?
S
At
this
point
in
the
pandemic,
individuals
have
made
their
personal
decision
to
either
get
vaccinated
or
not.
We
are
people,
we
are
not
metrics.
Unlike
these
metrics,
though,
which
were
created
only
several
weeks
ago,
we
have
been
here
throughout
this
entire
pandemic
working
and
providing
services
to
keep
boston
moving
forward.
S
Some
things
cannot
be
measured,
and
so
we
have
come
here
today
to
let
you
see
our
faces
to
hear
our
stories
and
to
let
the
city
council
know
those
of
you
who
are
in
attendance
that
we
have
been
and
continue
to
be
impacted
by
these
policies,
and
these
closed-door
back
room
deals
that
mayor
michelle
wu
has
engaged
in
since
she
took
office.
We
have
come
here
to
let
our
voices
be
heard
and
to
demand
our
liberty
be
restored
through
open
democratic
processes
based
on
real
science,
not
political
science.
S
If
you
want
to
be
together,
then
act
like
it.
We
are
not
a
dashboard.
We
are
parents,
siblings
teachers,
cops,
firefighters,
we're
neighbors,
restaurant
owners
and
shop
owners,
mentors
and
coaches.
We
are
boston
and
boston
is
us
if
mayor
wu
will
not
stop
herself,
we
implore
the
city
council
to
speak
up
for
we,
the
people.
It
is
time
to
say
out
loud
in
person
what
has
become
evidence
over
the
last
100
days.
The
emperor
has
no
clothes.
B
Yes,
I
do.
I
just
want
to
read
a
tweet
that
just
came
out
from
from
a
colleague
that
didn't
show
up
here
today:
ricardo
arroyo,
it's
frankly
irresponsible,
embarrassing
and
dangerous
to
allow
this
kind
of
misinformation.
I'd
like
to
know
what
type
of
misinformation
he's
talking
about
people
were
coming
here,
telling
their
stories
misinformation
to
be
given
a
platform
in
legitimacy
of
a
boston
city,
council
hearing.
So
that's
one
of
my
colleagues
and
that's
what
they
think
about
we,
the
people
coming
in
here
and
expressing
something
that's
wrong.
This
is
all
happening
in
back
rooms.
B
Exactly
like
you
said,
yeah
yep.
There
you
go
so
just
so.
You
know
that's
what
that's
what
one
certain
council
thinks
of
this.
um
I
do
have
one
question
for
you:
paula
um
I've
heard
a
lot
of
here
say
around
the
the
um
the
teachers
union
agreement.
I
heard
it
happened
on
zoom.
I
heard
they
showed
it.
Can
you
expound
on
that?
A
little
bit
um
was
mayor
wu
on
that
zoom
floating
her
platform.
V
V
Yes,
so
it
was,
it
was
put
up
on
the
screen
and
jessica
tang
chuckled
that
oh,
I
can't
even
see
this.
I
can't
read
it.
I
don't
know
what
it
says.
So
that's
indication
that
she
wanted
us
to
read
something
and
come
into
an
understanding
of
it
when
she
didn't
even
know
what
it
said
in
the
act
in
academia,
we
always
talk
about
different
representation
of
presenting
material.
V
V
B
Yeah
so
200
people
represents
84
of
8400
people,
and
I
was
in
my
previous
role
in
the
print
department.
I
was
ahead
head
negotiator
for
the
department
and
I
know
when
we
brought
an
agreement
back
to
the
department
it
was.
It
was
for
us
to
disseminate
and
to
make
sure
people
had
it
they
could
digest
it,
never
never
vote
in
the
same
day,
never
mind
the
same
zoom
meeting.
So
um
thank
you
for
your
testimony.
You
guys
asked
for
for
a
voice
and
that's
why
we're
having
this
hearing
here
today,
because
you
deserve
a
voice.
B
You
all
work
for
the
city.
Well,
most
you
work
for
the
city
rabbi.
Thank
you
for
your
story.
um
I
hope
to
get
on
my
bucket
list
as
a
someday
tour
dakao
to
tour,
birkenau,
yeah
and
and
I'll
switch,
because
those
are
powerful
stories
that
need
to
remain
in
our
consciousness.
um
Thank
you.
Thank
you
guys
for
coming
out.
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
do
want
just
wanna
and
also
by
saying
the
hearing's
not
over,
yet
we
have
public
testimony,
but
I
do
believe
that
um
you
know
it
is
our
responsibility
of
the
boston
city
council
to
open
our
doors
and
allow
people
in,
even
if
we
don't
agree
with
their
opinion,
and
so
thank
you,
everyone
for
coming
you're,
the
third
panel,
I'm
saying
that
to
all
of
the
panelists
who
spoke,
and
so
thank
you
very
much.
We
are
now
going
to
public
testimony.
A
So
as
people
signed
in
some
of
them,
I'm
may
have
already
been
on
panelists
that
I
could
identify.
If
I
read
your
name
and
you
would
like
to
testify,
please
come
up.
We
can
come
up
to
these
two
microphones
on
either
side,
so
I
will
call
four
names
at
a
time
and
we
could
go
to
the
two.
We
could
form
two
lines:
yep
here:
okay,
so
um
john
daly,
if
you're
here
and
you'd
like
to
testify
in
patrick
bryant,
also
paula
taylor
and
jonathan
vandezant.
A
X
Is
this
thing
on?
Can
you
hear
me?
Okay,
okay,
great,
uh
my
name
is
uh
john
daly,
I'm
a
teacher
in
roxbury
massachusetts
and
uh
I
just
wanted
to
take
a
minute
and
uh
express
a
couple
thoughts,
and
uh
you
know
first
of
all
thank
you,
uh
madam
chair
murphy,
and
you
know
for
all
you're
doing
in
support
of
uh
our
efforts
and
also
you
too,
uh
council
baker.
I
love
your
passion
and,
and
we
need
this
and
the
transparency
is
there.
X
X
So
I
represent
a
bunch
of
other
teachers
that
are
very
concerned
and
people
within
the
bps
community,
not
just
teachers
and
uh
I
think,
to
let
their
voice
ring
a
little
bit
here,
and
I
know
uh
these
are
some.
uh
I've
got
dozens
of
letters.
I
think
we've
submitted
some
for
the
record,
um
probably
a
couple
dozen
and
uh
you
know
I'll
just
start
off.
You
know
explaining
a
little
bit
about
who
I
am
and
what's
been
going
on
lately
here
quickly,
but.
X
X
X
So
when
I
go
away
because
we
hit
a
metric
that
again
arbitrary
metric,
I
go
away,
the
program
goes
away.
I
got
27
students
that
I
work
with
after
school.
In
an
unpaid
format,
I
don't
get
paid,
but
I
love
what
I
do.
I
love
working
with
kids
see.
I
don't
answer
the
humans.
I
answer
to
things
higher
than
that
and
that's
where
I'm
at
that's,
where
I've
always
been.
X
This
passport
thing,
other
cities
and
towns
surrounding
boston
have
dropped.
The
governor's
dropped
the
mass
mandate
yet.
For
some
reason,
our
mayor
wu
pushes
on
shoving
a
tyrannical
mandate
down
the
throats
of
the
people
that
live,
work
and
visit
boston,
causing
businesses
to
fail
people
to
lose
jobs,
children
to
be
banned
from
certain
places,
museums,
rinks
parks
well,
except
the
ranks.
X
X
X
X
A
Y
Good
evening
first,
I
would
like
to
thank
you
all
for
being
here
today,
special
thanks
to
council,
emma
murphy
and
council,
frank
baker
for
making
sure
this
hearing
took
place
to
think
that
some
elected
officials
refused
to
be
here
last
week
and
if
you
look
around
the
room,
there's
nobody
here
now
is
a
disgrace
to
me
and
cowardice.
In
my
opinion,.
Y
I
am
here
today
to
share
with
you
my
personal
experience
of
being
terminated
from
my
job
due
to
vaccine
mandates.
My
name
is
shannon
lundin.
I
am
a
lifelong
resident
of
charlestown
and
I
am
a
person
in
long-term
recovery
from
substance
use
disorder
coming
up
on
18
years
in
may,
and
I've
worked
in
the
field
of
addiction,
treatment
recovery
for
16
years.
Y
For
anyone
who
knows
me,
you
know
I
am
pretty
much
an
open
book.
You
know
how
important
my
personal
recovery
is,
and
you
know
it
has
been
my
passion
to
serve
one
of
our
city's
most
vulnerable
populations
in
the
charleston
community
for
the
last
14
years.
The
last
four
as
the
program
manager
of
addiction
and
recovery
services
at
the
charlestown
coalition,
which
is
a
program
of
massachusetts,
general
hospital's
center
for
community
health
improvement
to
have
been
able
to
work
in
the
same
community.
Y
I'm
from
the
community
I
lived
in
throughout
my
active
addiction,
and
the
community
I
recovered
in
has
been
a
privilege.
Those
of
you
who
know
me
on
a
much
deeper
level.
You
know
my
faith
takes
priority
over
all
else.
In
my
life,
it
is
my
personal
relationship
with
jesus
that
has
set
me
free
from
a
life
of
addiction.
Y
It
is
because
of
my
faith
that
I
was
able
to
achieve
success
after
success
throughout
my
time
at
mass
general
hospital
mass
general
brigham
is
because
of
my
faith
in
god
that
I
am
married
and
have
four
beautiful,
healthy
daughters.
One
of
them
is
22
years
old
and
works
in
a
boston.
Restaurant
one
is
13
and
she
goes
to
boston,
public
schools,
and
then
I
have
three-year-old
twins
twin
girls
in
preschool.
Y
It
is
because
of
my
faith
that
I've
maintained
good
quality
recovery
for
almost
18
years,
despite
most
of
my
closest
family
and
friends,
dropping
dead.
All
around
me
as
a
result
of
the
opioid
epidemic,
which
we
are
still
fighting
but
seems
to
have
been
forgotten.
Amidst
the
kovic
chaos
back
in
october
2021,
I
had
to
take
a
personal
lead
due
to
the
work
due
to
the
amount
of
work
related
stress
that
had
come
with
my
choice
to
not
be
vaccinated
because
of
my
sincere
health
beliefs.
Y
I
believe
the
immune
system
is
a
complex,
brilliant
intricately
designed
system
and
nothing
that
man
makes
can
improve
upon
god's
design,
my
religious
beliefs,
as
a
christian,
obliged
me
to
follow
the
judgment
of
my
conscience.
I
am
called
to
follow
god,
even
when
man
in
the
ways
of
this
world
is
calling
me
to
do
something.
Contrary.
Y
I
cite
my
religious
exemption
yearly
and
it
has
never
been
an
issue,
and
this
time
it
was.
Therefore
my
exemption
was
denied.
There
was
no
explanation,
no
appeals
process
and
no
accommodations
as
a
result
of
my
religious
exemption
being
denied.
I
want
to
make
it
clear
that
I
did
not
resign
from
my
job,
but
I
was
wrongfully
terminated.
Y
From
my
understanding,
supposedly,
there
was
about
10
percent
of
mass
general
employees
that
got
their
exemptions
approved
by
some
anonymous
committee,
but
as
for
those
who
did
get
approved,
what
makes
their
beliefs
more
sincere
than
mine?
If
that's
not
discriminatory,
I
don't
know
what
is
my
protective
rights
have
been
violated
and
I
am
the
victim
of
religious
discrimination,
not
someone
who
violated
policy,
what
happened
to
equity
and
inclusion
or
does
mass
general
hospital
mass
general
brigham,
our
elected
officials
in
mayu
consider
themselves
the
final
authority
in
determining
what
someone
else's
beliefs
are
quite
hypocritical.
Y
In
my
opinion,
one
of
the
things
I've
constantly
heard
over
the
years
while
working
and
focusing
on
community
health
is
you
have
to
listen
to
your
community.
You
have
to
listen
to
the
people
you
serve.
I
would
imagine
that
the
city
of
boston
and
our
elected
officials
would
live
by
that
same
statement,
although
judging
from
the
last
couple
of
years,
but
more
so
the
past
couple
of
months,
I
would
say,
listening
to
the
people
is
not
a
priority
of
our
representatives.
Y
While
working
at
the
charleston
coalition,
I
worked
in
the
community,
not
in
the
hospital.
I
began
as
a
recovery,
coach
and
community
health
worker.
I
developed
a
relationship-based
system
of
languages,
linkages
to
continuum
of
care
services
to
prevent
and
reduce
the
risks
associated
with
substance,
use
disorders
and
occurrences
of
overdose.
Y
Y
Through
these
relationships,
I
played
a
key
role
in
partnering
with
the
charleston
division
of
the
boston
municipal
court
to
form
the
court's
first
specialized
session,
the
child
sound
addiction,
recovery,
court
team.
Now
re
now
referred
to
as
recovery
court,
which
was
developed
into
the
largest
drug
specialty
session
in
suffolk
county
in
2018,
I
was
promoted
to
the
manager
of
addiction
and
recovery
services,
where
I
oversaw
all
addiction
recovery
initiatives
of
the
charleston
coalition.
Y
Upon
my
personal
leave
and
termination,
I
had
a
229
person
caseload
who
are
basically
left
to
fend
for
themselves.
My
role
has
not
been
filled
and
there
was
no
real
plan
ever
put
in
place
for
my
clients
and
just
so.
Everyone
here
is
aware.
I
know
way
more
people
who
died
of
overdose
during
covert
than
of
covid.
Within
the
last
year
and
a
half
we
have
lost
31
people
with
ties
to
charlestown
from
overdose.
That
number
I'm
sure
continues
to
grow.
Y
These
emails
were
from
the
charlestown
community
in
the
recovery
community.
It
fell
on
deaf
ears
and
came
with
a
generic
hollow
response.
These
emails
talked
about
as
what
an
essential
person
I
am
to
the
recovery
community
and
they
were
also
filled
with
worry
and
panic
about
what
could
possibly
happen
to
the
population
I
serve.
Should
I
no
longer
be
available?
Y
This
is
a
job
I
put
blood,
sweat
and
tears
into
my
personal
story
has
been
used
and
put
on
display
many
many
times.
My
hard
work
throughout
the
years
has
brought
long
established
change
to
the
charlestown
community
and
the
surrounding
areas
and
to
be
so
easily
dismissed
is
devastating,
especially
coming
from
an
institution
and
a
city
that
claims
to
take
pride
in
diversity
and
inclusion.
Isn't
religion
included
in
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
last
year
essential
this
year?
Y
Y
The
population
I
work
with
is
already
high
risk
and
now
at
even
higher
risk
due
to
the
current
covic
crisis.
So
what
does
mass
general?
Do?
They
add
another
layer
of
risk
by
removing
me
a
vital,
important
trusted
resource
to
the
recovery
community
and
those
living
in
active
addiction.
I
guess
when
it
all
comes
down
to
it
and
money
is
involved,
us
addicts
will
always
be
dispensable.
Just
like
we
were
to
purdue
farmer
in
the
sackler
family.
Y
People
in
active
addiction,
don't
care
about
a
pandemic.
Addiction
doesn't
stop
because
we
are
in
a
global
pandemic.
People
in
recovery
still
need
constant
support
and
I
worked
tirelessly
to
help
build
and
maintain
the
support
they
needed
when
the
closes
and
shut
down.
When
the
closures
and
shutdowns
first
happened,
it
had
a
really
big
impact
on
the
recovery
community
group
meetings
where
people
share
and
support
one
another
is
a
key
aspect
to
the
recovery
community
at
large.
We
rely
on
community
when
we
had
nowhere
to
go
nowhere
to
have
our
meetings.
Y
Y
We
call
ourselves
the
covet
defiance
group
aka
cdg
for
people
like
us,
the
risk
of
relapsing
and
dying
was
far
greater
than
catch
and
covid.
Within
the
first
year
of
meeting
outside,
we
had
52
people
celebrate
one
year
in
recovery,
which
is
unheard
of
because
it
can
take
people
decades
to
get
to
that.
One
year
mark.
Y
I've
been
told
over
and
over
that,
I
that
I
am
and
always
will
be,
the
go-to
person
for
families,
friends,
individuals
and
youth
when
in
need
of
guidance
and
help.
It's
pretty
sad
that
forcing
someone
to
choose
between
a
job
they
love
so
much
and
their
true
religious
beliefs
has
caused
my
departure
and
left
those
I
serve
without
left
those.
Y
I
left
those
I've
served
even
with
the
ongoing
stress
and
uncertainty
of
cover
19
to
fend
for
themselves,
not
to
mention,
according
to
the
cdc
those
women
with
substance
use
disorders
are
more
likely
to
develop,
cover,
19
and
experience
worse
cover,
19
outcomes.
How
does
this
make
any
sense?
How
do
you
justify
this?
Y
Z
I
thank
you
counselors
for
letting
me
speak
today.
My
name
is
jonathan
vandezand.
I
have
no
particular
group
affiliation.
I
moved
to
alston
on
halloween
2020
and
I'm
here
to
take
today
to
talk
about
the
horror
of
how
anti-scientific
the
public
health
policy
here
in
boston
has
been
a
city
that,
I
was
told,
was
a
shining
beacon
of
medical
excellence.
Z
I'm
a
phd
chemist
who,
thanks
to
the
pandemic
and
unemployment,
has
an
excess
of
time
to
read
the
medical
literature,
and
I
would
like
to
speak
to
you
today
about
two
specific
things
that
I
find.
The
public
health
policy
has
been
drastically
out
of
step
with
the
scientific
literature,
namely
those
of
masking
and
a
vaccination.
Z
The
first
study
was
published
on
september
11
2020
and
showed
no
benefit
from
cloth
masks
with
a
p-value
of
0.89.
Traditionally
we
prefer
a
p-value
of
less
than
0.05
to
consider
something
statistically
significant.
This
was
well
above
that,
a
year
later,
on
august
31st,
they
showed
august
31st
2021.
They
showed
again
a
p-value
of
0.1
for
the
effectiveness
of
cloth
masks
again,
showing
them
to
not
rise
to
the
level
of
statistical
significance.
Z
Z
Yet
the
public
health
commission
and
the
public
health
in
boston
has
not
been
affected
by
this,
where
we
allow
anybody
to
wear
a
basic
rag
over
their
face.
I've
seen
numerous
cloth
masks
today.
I've
seen
numerous
people
wearing
buffs,
even
policemen
outside
this
room
right
here,
are
wearing
buffs
over
their
face,
which
have
no
benefit
in
preventing
the
spread
of
coving.
Z
Yet
we
still
have
these
mandates,
which
makes
no
sense.
How
can
we
mandate
something
that
we
have
been
shown
by
science
not
to
work?
This
is
this
is
an
absurdity.
If
the
government
can
enact
regulations,
they
go
against
the
very
basic
medical
literature
that
has
been
borne
out
in
numerous
studies
and
has
been
established
by
the
cdc.
Z
Z
Perhaps
it
may
be
acceptable
in
extreme
circumstances
in
order
to
protect
the
public
from
those
who
refuse
to
be
vaccinated.
There
have
been
perhaps
cases
in
the
past
of
very
horrible
diseases
such
as
smallpox.
That
is
very
difficult
to
control,
so
perhaps
in
those
cases
it
would
be
reasonable
to
produce
some
sort
of
mandate
to
require
vaccination
so
as
to
prevent
the
spread.
Z
A
Thank
you
very
much.
I'm
going
to
go
through
some
more
of
the
names.
Unless
is
there
anyone
left
in
the
chamber
who
would
like
to
statement
you
could
come
up
to
either
one
of
these
two
microphones.
If
yep,
you
can
go
right
up
to
one
of
the
two
microphones,
we
could
have
two
at
each
microphone.
So
if
you
want
to
wait
in
line,
thank
you
very
much.
You
can
go
ahead,
sir.
AA
Hi,
thank
you
for
having
me
my
name
is
zach
herbert
I'm
a
startup
founder.
I
live
in
the
heart
of
downtown
boston,
just
a
few
blocks
away
in
the
financial
district.
Today
I
am
relieved,
but
I'm
also
wary.
I'm
relieved
that
mayor
wu
chose
to
lift
her
covey
vaccine
mandate
last
friday.
I'm
relieved
because
boston
is
no
longer
a
segregated
city.
AA
AA
AA
We're
toying
with
real
people's
lives
over
10
percent
of
our
boston
population.
That's
over
70,
000
bostonians.
I
believe
councillor
baker,
that's
almost
the
size
of
your
district!
So
imagine
if
your
entire
district
is
excommunicated
for
34
days.
That's
exactly
what
just
happened
for
34
days.
Over
10
percent
of
the
boston
population
was
essentially
excommunicated
from
society.
This
happened
by
mandate,
not
by
any
law
that
was
passed.
AA
Mayor.
Wu's
mandate
was
a
failure.
It
may
have
been
fleeting,
but
its
damage
will
be
enduring
those
who
were
fired
from
their
jobs
last
month
will
not
magically
be
rehired.
This
week
many
businesses,
many
residents,
will
be
planning
to
move
out
of
the
city.
I
am
one
of
them,
and
I've
lived
in
boston
for
a
decade.
AA
250
years
ago.
America's
founders
fought
for
their
freedoms.
They
tossed
tea
into
the
boston
harbor
to
protest
taxation
without
representation,
but
for
34
days
unvaccinated
bostonians
were
not
even
allowed
to
enter
the
tea
party
museum,
but
now
we
have
a
chance
to
make
lasting
change.
I
urge
city
council
to
rein
in
the
mayor's
ability
to
unilaterally
institute
mandates
without
oversight.
B
G
AA
Which,
by
the
way,
actually
just
as
an
informed
member
of
the
public
as
an
informed
bostonian,
all
the
media
headlines
made
it
seem
like
that
mandate
was
gone
due
to
the
court
action.
So
it
was
very
enlightening
to
be
here
today
and
hear
from
all
our
first
responders.
I
think
most
bostonians
don't
know
that
that
mandate
is
still
in
place.
A
My
remarks
one
other
thing
you
mentioned
about
the
number
of
citizens
that
10
percent
and
what
we
found
out
by
asking
and
having
to
dig
a
little
bit-
is
that
some
neighborhoods
are
as
low
as
55
percent
and
others
are
as
high
as
98.
So
across
the
board.
It
comes
out
to
about
10
percent,
but
there
are
some
neighborhoods
where
almost
half
of
their
neighborhood.
G
A
F
AA
Right
and
it's
it's
strange
that
I
just
listed
out
just
from
the
weekly
reports
that
are
published
by
the
city-
they
have
a
graph.
You
know
that
breaks
down
by
uh
different
metrics,
including
a
graph
that
breaks
the
numbers
down
by
race,
it's
very
confusing
to
see
a
metric
of
10
being
unvaccinated,
but
then
seeing
large
numbers.
AA
G
A
AB
Hi,
my
name
is
erica
walsh.
I
live
at
98
a
as
an
apple
dunstable
street
in
child
style
mass,
I'm
not
the
greatest
at
public
speaking,
so
I
just
want
to
thank
you,
council,
baker,
murphy
for
taking
the
time
to
sit
and
listen
to
us
and,
more
importantly,
for
allowing
us
to
go
on
record
with
our
very
valid
concerns.
I
want
to
thank
your
employees,
your
staff.
I
know
you
know
they're
here
after
hours.
I
feel
like
we're
in
the
twilight
zone.
The
fact
that
this
is
even
happening.
AB
Instead
of
her
walking
across
the
hall
and
hearing
out
her
constituents
and
the
people
who
work
along
her
for
this
city
just
shows
us
everything.
We
need
to
know
for
all
the
other
counselors
that
couldn't
make
it
here
today
or
make
the
time
to
be
with
us.
Shame
on
you
keep
hiding
like
the
coward.
You
are,
but
hey
free
speech
isn't
always
polite
right.
So
I
guess
my
advice,
for
you
would
just
be
keep
on
tweeting.
AB
She
mao
wu
is
a
childish,
immature
and
her
snarky
smug
demeter
is
so
cringy
and
is
an
embarrassment
to
our
beautiful
city,
I'm
so
sick
of
hearing.
You
voted
her
in
you
have
to
deal
with
her.
First
of
all,
no
I
didn't,
and
second
of
all,
we
all
saw
the
we
all
saw
that
her
election
brought
out
record
low
voting
numbers
elections
are
seasonal
and
though
I
may
not
have
voted
for
mayor
wu,
I
had
hoped
for
her
administration
and
that
I
would
grow
to
be
a
supporter,
though
I
may
not
have
voted
for
her.
AB
I'm
still
her
constituent
and
she's
a
public
servant
and
an
elected
official,
the
same
woman
who
wanted
to
defund
the
police
is
the
same
woman
who
has
three
police
officers
by
her
side
at
all
time.
She
has
proven
to
us
that
she
is
a
liar
and
she's
a
hypocrite
and
she
cannot
be
trusted.
We
need
someone
to
step
up
and
show
us
that
we
have
someone
in
power
that
cares
about
us
individually.
AB
AB
But
this
isn't
right,
although
I'm
not
a
cop,
a
firefighter
or
front-line
worker,
who
I
want
to
take
a
moment
to
thank
for
all
you've
done
and
dealt
with
during
all
this
madness,
especially
the
ones
who
are
putting
their
neck
out
online,
who
are
putting
their
neck
out
to
speak
up
against
male
who's,
egregious
segregating
and
discriminating
mangrades
mandates.
I'm
just
a
mother
whose
daughter
lost
a
year
and
a
half
of
her
life.
She
failed
school
miserably
while
being
on
zoom,
just
like
her
and
so
many
other
kids.
AB
They
work
better
in
person,
I'm
a
passionate
and
involved
community
member,
I'm
also
the
co-director
of
a
non-profit
that
was
established
during
the
pandemic,
because
essentially,
we
were
witnessing
firsthand
how
badly
locally
owned
small
businesses
and
business
owned
by
people
of
color
are
being
affected
negatively
by
the
pandemic.
Our
goal
has
been
always
to
try
to
do
our
best
to
keep
long
living
traditions
alive
within
our
community
and
to
uplift
and
to
support
any
and
all
community
members.
I
work
a
few
shifts
at
a
local
pub
which
absolutely
has
been
affected
by
wu's
outrageous
mandates.
AB
I
was
honored
to
be
a
part
of
building
up
an
amazing
summer
program
for
our
local
kids
that
the
pandemic
just
a
short
year
later
squashed.
I
now
walk
by
these
kids
on
the
street.
Asking
me
hey.
We
having
basketball.
This
season
are
you
coaching,
and
I
have
to
tell
them
no,
it's
almost
as
if
I'm
giving
up
on
them,
but
I'm
not
it's
just
another
example
of
how
this
city
is
making
decisions.
AB
AB
AB
You
know
how
the
peanut
allergy
became
so
popular
in
the
90s
right.
We
have
people,
we
have
random
people
like
her
across
the
hall,
making
blanket
decisions
to
keep
us
safe,
and
it's
really
doing
the
opposite.
What
we
assume
are
good
intentions
and
bad
ideas
are
setting
us
up
for
failure.
That's
it.
K
Thank
you,
um
councilor
murphy,
I'd
like
to
address
erica.
um
So
thank
you
for
you
know
coming
today
period
and
I
do
want
to
be
clear
if
I'm
on
the
phone-
it's
because
I'm
here
and
I
couldn't
make
the
meeting
that
I
had
planned
to
go
to.
Okay,
erica
and
honestly,
you
can
talk
with
shannon
we
work
to
try
and
find
a
place
for
the
meeting
for
the
covid
defiance
group
during
during
the
uh
during
the
pandemic,
and
I
want
I
mean
you
know
shannon's
heart.
You
know
we
worked
we're
trying
our
best
and
honestly.
K
No,
no,
no!
No,
but
you
called
me
out
for
being
on
the
phone
and
I
and
ironically
saying
you
know
all
my
other
colleagues
were
cowards
for
not
being
here,
I'm
here
right
and
then,
but
maybe
that
speaks
to
why
some
people
don't
come
if
they're
going
to
be
called
a
coward.
You
know
if
they're
here,
no,
not
at
all,
not
worried.
I'm
saying
I
said
the
other
other
other
folks.
Maybe
that's.
Why
they're
not
here
if
they're
going
to
be
called
out
and
called
names.
M
Name
is
melissa,
I'm
not
affiliated
with
anyone.
I
did
uh
make
a
joke
to
local
718
when
I
march
with
them.
I
represent
the
cats
of
boston
that
are
stuck
in
trees,
um
and
what
do
you
know
it?
They
uh
so
just
uh
shout
out
to
all
the
first
responders,
getting
those
cats
out
of
trees
um
and
taking
care
of
our
community.
I'd
like
to
start
um
and
I'll
try
and
be
as
brief
as
possible,
um
with
a
quote
from
former
counselor.
M
What
is
his
name,
timothy,
mccarthy?
When
does
an
agenda
become
a
social
norm?
I'm
looking
at
an
article
from
october
2019
when,
in
this
very
room,
boston
city
council
was
considering
a
ban
on
masks
in
public
places.
This
was
following
um
what
was,
I
believe,
the
uh
city
granting
a
permit
for
the
straight
pride
parade
in
2019
again
another
um
a
comparable
situation
in
which
the
public
was
not
able
to
um
give
input
or
have
a
open
discussion,
but
we
are
now
in
2022.
M
So
I'll
get
to
my
notes.
I
want
to
first
say-
and
I
feel
like
this-
has
become
almost
necessary:
I'm
not
an
anti-vaxxer,
I'm
a
proud
boston,
public
schools
graduate
um
I'm
sure
that
the
um
I
was
vaccinated
against
covet
19
in
december
uh
2021
in
part,
because
I
trusted
dolly
parton
more
than
a
government.
M
It
was
a
choice
that
I
made
as
this
mask
that
I'm
wearing
on
my
face.
I
was
wearing
a
mask
before
the
pandemic
started
my
face
my
choice
um
and
I
guess
it
speaks
to
my
true
dorchester
nativity
because
I
have
asthma.
Analogies
that
said,
the
be
together
mandate
has
significantly
negatively
impacted
the
quality
of
life
for
boston
residents
and
visitors.
M
M
The
class
that
I
was
supposed
to
teach
at
the
boston
public
library
was
cancelled
due
to
covert
restrictions.
I
then
got
a
job
as
a
food
service
worker
and
my
statements
do
not
represent
the
united
states
census
bureau.
I
worked
as
a
census
worker
in
person.
I've
dealt
with
the
um
firsthand,
the
most
uh
honestly,
understandably
hostile
um
reactions
to
somebody
knocking
on
your
door
and
asking
you
questions.
M
That
said,
I
want
to
speak
just
a
little
bit
about
how
this
has
impacted
the
quality
of
life
for
people
who
can't
speak
up
people
who
won't
come
up
to
a
microphone
um
as
someone
who
identifies
as
a
member
of
the
lgbtq
community
instantly,
I
thought
of
of
what
is
uh
referred
to
as
cerrophobia,
which
is
essentially
what
a
vaccine
mandate
is.
It's
uh
basically
telling
asking
someone
an
invasive
question:
what
is
in
your
blood
and
deciding
whether
or
not
they're
allowed
to
be
around
other
people?
M
This
is
also
the
implementation
of
these
mandates
have
impacted
survivors
of
sexual
assault
and
sexual
abuse,
who
feel
that
they
have
now
to
fight
um
between
the
boundaries
of
boston
and
their
bodies,
which
no
one
should
be
asked
to
do.
It
should
just
be
a
choice,
and
I
gotta
say
respectfully:
some
people
just
don't
want
the
vaccine
get
over
it
and,
let's
move
on
some
people,
just
don't
want
it
and
it's
their
choice
to
continue
to
litigate
this
in
court
and
waste
taxpayer
money
to
continue
to
have
passive,
aggressive
snarky
treats
from
the
honorable
mayor.
M
M
um
I
also
have
a
question
of,
um
or
rather
I
want
to
speak
to,
the
um
the
implications
on
transparency
when
public
employees,
particularly
city
councillors
and
um
members
of
the
police
department,
are
unable
to
identify,
be
verbally
identified
by
members
of
the
public
that
they're
serving
because
they
are
forced
to
wear
a
mask.
I
also
uh
there
are
people
with
cranial
and
craniofacial
differences
and
conditions
who
can't
wear
a
mask.
I
saw
someone
the
other
day
at
the
laundromat
with
what
would
be
considered
targeted
dyskinesia.
M
They
could
not
have
a
mask
on
their
face
people
on
the
odd
test
or
autism
spectrum
disorder.
As
myself,
who
have
certain
sensitivities,
they
cannot
have
a
mask
on
their
face
at
all
times.
These
are
p
and
there's
so
many
people
that
I
could
mention
who
um
who
are
negatively
impacted
by
these
mandates.
M
What
I
just
um
really
want
to
speak
to,
as
far
as
my
point
of
view
is
it's
ridiculous
that
I
have
to
show
a
private
medical
record
in
order
to
go,
get
some
steak
tips
or
go
support
a
business
in
my
city
when
I
speak
as
far
as
the
boston
public
schools,
vaccine
mandate,
the
the
the
rex,
the
immunization
records
went
from
my
doctor's
office
to
my
nurse's
office.
I
did
not
carry
them
around
in
my
purse.
This
is
it's.
I
um
I
just
there's
just
so
many
layers
of
ridiculousness.
M
um
There
was
something
I
did
want
to
address
as
well.
People
kept
asking
about
this.
um
uh
You
know
uh
employee
of
the
boston,
public
health
commission,
dr
jennifer
lowe
is
back,
and
I
would
like
to
slightly
in
her
defense
mention
that
she
offered
to
resign
from
her
position.
The
boston
public
health
commission
apparently
has
a
problem
with
keeping
and
retaining
executive
directors
um
and
medical
directors,
but
that's
none
of
my
business.
Quite
literally
best
of
luck
to
you,
dr
lowe,
welcome
back,
um
but
I
you
know,
there's
been
a
lot
of
strong
emotions
here.
M
I
um
I
certainly
um
uh
can
relate
to
the
uh
uh
the
passion
uh
that
counselor
baker
has
uh
put
forth,
um
though
he
is
a
scorpio.
So
please,
you
know,
give
you
know,
give
him
a
little
bit
of.
You
know
how
those
scorpios
are
mix.
I
I
do
my
research,
sir.
I
hope
to
be
a
lawyer
one
day,
um
uh
but
you
know
um
you
know
we
we
don't
necessarily
want
screaming
matches.
um
I
say
this
as
a
loudmouth
from
dorchester.
M
If
uh
what
what's
referred
to
as
social
capital,
you
know,
we
think
a
lot
about
economic
capital,
we're
losing
social
capital,
we're
losing
connections,
we're
losing
the
things
that
make
boston
great.
This
is
even
this
like
brutalist,
like
weird
looking
building
has
been
one
of
the
most
welcome
places.
To
me,
I've
read
my
poetry
here.
I've
slid
across
the
uh
the
table
on
the
the
o'neill
hearing,
room
and
just
boston
in
general
has
been
a
city,
that's
been
through
a
lot,
but
it
welcomes
people.
M
One
thing
I
would
like
to
mention
to
the
boss:
the
folks
in
the
health
commission
aren't
here
with
the
be
together
uh
so
be
together.
um
Charitable
food
organizations
such
as
rosie's
place
and
the
pine
street
n
are
exempt
from,
and
I
hope
I
would
hope
they
are
they're
exempt
from
the
be
together
vaccine
mandate.
However,
they
are,
they
are.
These
are
commercial
size
kitchens
that
are
also
similarly
regulated
by
the
boston
public
health
commission.
M
M
um
I
want
to
point
to
one
last
thing
um
that
we
should
be
moving
forward
and
looking
towards
solutions.
As
I
mentioned,
I
did
work
during
the
pandemic
as
a
census
worker
and
one
of
the
things
that
I
would
suggest
to
have.
Metrics
and
data
that
we
can
all
understand
would
be
to
support
um
former
uh
janie's
mayor
janie's
efforts
to
get
an
accurate
census
count.
M
M
It's
it's
it's
ridiculous
to
me
that
at
the
boston,
public
library,
someone
walks
in
without
a
mass
and
that's
not
an
opportunity
to
help
educate
them,
or
even
just
to
have
a
civil
discussion
with
them
that
the
police
were
called
and
apparently
you
know,
god
bless
them,
love
the
libraries,
but
some
of
the
librarians
are
saying
you
know
the
police
respect
police
response
was
ineffective.
What
do
you
want
them
to
do?
Put
hold
someone
down,
put
a
mask
on
their
face,
drag
them
out.
M
This
is
getting
to
be
it's
putting
us
out
it's
putting
neighbors
and
community
members
at
war
with
one
another.
We
need
to
start
working
towards
solutions,
but
I
suggest
an
advisory
and
work
on
having
those
conversations
that
patient
compassionate
approach
to
talking
people
talking
to
people
and
giving
them
information
that
they
can
use,
and
that
makes
sense
to
them
we're
not
all
epidemiologists.
M
M
I
almost
left
my
wallet
in
dunkeys
earlier
today
and
someone
had
to
get
it
for
me,
so
nevertheless,
it
shouldn't
be
about
academic
credentials
or
or
numbers
or
names
behind
it,
num
letters
behind
a
name
numbers
behind
a
name
and
it
even
just
you
know
what
it
shouldn't
be
about:
the
boston,
consulting
group
and
rich
lesser
deciding
how
he's
going
to
get
vaccination
hesitancy
rates
up,
and
I
won't
get
too
much
into
that.
But
I
encourage
you
to
look
up
who
took
a
job
at
boston,
consulting
group
after
she
graduated
from
harvard.
M
That
said,
I
really
thank
you,
madam
chair
um
counselor,
baker,
el
scorpio,
so
keep
that
fire
and
keep
that
passion,
because
we
we
this
needs
to
be
yes,
sir.
What
sign?
Are
you
I'm
a
virgo
like
the
city
of
boston,
okay
and
that's,
and
and
and
that's
uh
that's,
uh
why
I'm
quite
critical
of
things,
but
I
um
I
know
that
there
are
practical
means
to
to
um
to
make
to
to
increase
the
quality
of
life
for
everyone
here.
You
know.
M
I've
had
amazing
conversations
with
people,
people
who
are
maybe
don't
even
align
with
my
political
views.
I've
learned
so
much
from
them
just
by
following
on
twitter,
and
did
you
know
that
I
um
32
communities,
the
boston
fire
department,
provides
mutual
aid
to
that's
how
I
learned
the
figures
of
how
they're
still
unvaccinated
people
in
boston
firehouses.
A
Much
I
just
you,
thank
you
you've,
given
us
a
lot
of
great
information.
I
appreciate
it.
Thank
you
so
I
do
want
to
close.
um
I
did
want
to
say
that
um
I
am
grateful
very
grateful
that
this
hearing
happened
and
that
there
was
no
need
for
anyone
to
be
escorted
or
any
need
for
just.
Thank
you
very
much.
We
were
able
to
come
into
this
space
have
difference
of
opinion,
and
I'm
just
very
grateful
for
that
um
would
any
with
council
baker.
Would
you
like
to
say
anything.
B
um
Thank
you
for
having
having
this
hearing
counselor
murphy.
Thank
you,
everybody
for
showing
up
um
and
it's
a
it's
a
an
overdue
discussion.
I
think
that
needs
to
happen
and
it's
something
that's
missing
in
the
political
arena
today.
I
think
we
need
to
get
back
in
the
rooms,
so
we
can
have
that
that
real,
um
honest
discussions
and
we
have
to
be
able
to
um
disagree
with
people
but
still
respect
each
other.
B
So
um
I
appreciate
everybody
for
coming
out
here
today
and
um
I
hope
that
I
hope
people
feel
heard
um
we
still
have.
We
still
have
work
to
do.
We'd
still
like
to
see
some
sort
of
um
you
know
some
sort
of
resolution
for
our
city
workers,
because
we
still
have
a
whole
host
of
people
that
aren't
protected
under
the
the
agreements
that
the
some
of
the
um
some
of
the
first
responder
unit
unions
have.
K
You
very
much
um
I
again
want
to
thank
everyone
for
coming
out
today,
and
I
want
to
thank
you
and
councillor
baker,
especially
for
your
for
this
conversation.
The
tough
ones
are
the
the
best
ones
actually
has,
as
as
they
demonstrate,
how
we
grow
as
a
body
and
as
how
we
grow
as
co-workers.
For
those
who
didn't
see
me
and
frank
gave
each
other
a
hug
off
camera,
because
we
are
close
friends
and
we
disagree
and
that's
perfectly
fine.
K
I
want
to
thank
the
two
of
shannon
and
erica
who
came
here
from
charlestown,
and
then
I
do
want
to
acknowledge
every
right.
They
have
to
call
me
out
or
anybody
else
as
their
public
servant.
I
do
work
for
them
um
and
and
any
of
my
colleagues
as
well,
so
we
don't
forget
who
we
work
for,
and
I
have
been
here
to
hear
both
sides,
and
I
thank
you
for
for
navigating
that
conversation,
counselors,
murphy
and
council
baker.
J
Hi
everyone
um
I
apologize.
I
got
called
to
somewhat
of
an
urgent
issue
with
my
office.
I
do
appreciate
these
conversations
look
forward
to
more
as
council
edwards
mentioned.
We
really
do
appreciate
this
process
that
you
get
to
come
here,
that
it's
not
just
performative,
that
you're
expressing
your
position
and
that
we
do
it
respectfully.
So,
even
when
we
do
disagree,
but
we
haven't
reached
there
yet
so
we've
heard
each
other
today
and
I
look
forward
to
seeing
where
this
goes
and
listening
more
and
hopefully
again
to
be
helpful.
Thank
you.