Next week on Wednesday April 26 at the PNC Arts Center at 10:15 a.m. New Jersey’s public safety community and the unions that represent first responders are planning to form a caravan that will travel to the Epic Church in Sayreville where there will be a non-denominational service to honor the 45 public safety professionals that died on the job during COVID.
This “Proper Tribute” comes just a couple of weeks ahead of the May 11th announcement by the Biden White House that the federal government is ending the COVID public health emergency that was first declared by President Trump more than three years ago. To this day, there is no registry of the perhaps tens of thousands of first responders, healthcare professionals, transport personnel, and other essential workers who died in that initial wave when we had an inadequate supply of N-95s and no vaccines.
Because of the virulent nature of the COVID pandemic that took 1.1 million American lives, including more than 113,000 here in New York and New Jersey, these local heroes, as well as the families they left behind did not get the proper recognition because congregant gatherings were prohibited. It’s also important to keep in mind, that unlike other line of duty deaths, death by infectious disease means these heroes inadvertently exposed their families to the deadly virus.
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