Posted on 08/23/2021 6:40:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I am an Oregon state employee, but from the looks of things, I won’t be for too long. Kate Brown, the governor of Oregon, has announced a mandate for all state executive agency employees to have full COVID-19 vaccination by October 18 or six weeks after full approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), whichever is later.
I am currently five months pregnant. Under this mandate, I stand to lose my job and health care if I don’t allow a needle in my arm, even though the long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccine are unknown.
Yes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now recommending the vaccine for pregnant women. The CDC says the risks of COVID-19 for unborn children and their mothers are greater than the unknown risks of the vaccine. But how can they know, if the long-term risks of the vaccine are unknown? These COVID treatments are, after all, only several months old themselves.
According to the CDC, the percent of preterm births among women with COVID-19 was 12.17, compared to 9.91 percent among women without COVID-19. That’s only a difference of 2.26 percent. Further, these numbers are not broken down by age and underlying health factors. In fact, these numbers are quite small when compared to the relevance of other factors like stress.
Finding another financially comparable job at this point in my pregnancy will be virtually impossible. It is a terrible decision to make between financial security — a roof over my family’s heads, food on the table, being able to pay for doctor bills — and putting something in my body that could ultimately affect me and my unborn child in ways I do not know.
What I do know is that the CDC has reported no COVID-19 deaths for women my age (age 30-39) in the state of Oregon in either 2020 or 2021. What’s more, few have been hospitalized. At the highest point, the rate of weekly hospitalizations for women in their thirties even being hospitalized was just over seven out of 100,000. That is not even discerning between underlying health factors.
I understand my level of risk from the virus as a healthy 35-year-old woman and I understand that the long-term risk of the vaccine is unknown. My personal decision for my body and my unborn child is based on my conclusion that the unknown long-term risk of the vaccine outweighs the risk of the virus for someone my age at my level of health.
I was hesitant to write this, but as an Oregon state employee, the governor’s new mandate threatens me with “personnel consequences” up to termination. I am being forced to either contradict what I think is best for myself and my baby or face losing my job, income, and health coverage when I need it most.
In the state of Oregon, employers are compelled by law to cover abortion in health-care plans, but the state can terminate an employee for not getting a vaccine that is not fully vetted by the FDA. It’s worth noting the social and political pressure currently on the FDA to approve the vaccine soon. Hopefully, the rush will not diminish the necessary thoroughness of their evaluation and testing.
For my entire adult life, I have served the people. I gave 10 years of military service in the U.S. Army, serving as an information systems specialist in Fort Hood, Texas (during which I completed a 15-month deployment to Iraq), South Korea, and finally the White House Communications Agency, where I directly supported the office of the president of the United States, who at the time was President Obama.
Immediately after serving in the U.S. Army, I went on to public service in the state of Oregon as an IT systems administrator. I have been an Oregon public servant for seven years now. Most of those years have been under the governance of Kate Brown.
I find it unbelievable that someone could think abortion is simply a woman’s bodily “right to choose” while denying her right to choose whether to have a needle stuck in her arm. After 17 years, is this is how my public service should end?
The same people demanding she take the jab run the unemployment office
Claim denied
Where all the vaxx fanatic posters be?
That is just stupid. If you can’t give the vaccine to a newborn infant who on earth would suggest, let alone demand, you give it to a pregnant woman?
Common sense is not so common.
You think the unions aren’t getting paid off in this insane blitz?
She can’t even get a medical exemption
That is pure insanity if true
hard to believe she won’t risk her and her babies life for the Covid Cause?
Trump was right. Reform the VA system to give military PPO plans. Let them go to whatever doctors and hospitals are in their home towns.
I saw your post after I made mine. Good for you, and hence my "mostly" as far as allowance for conscience.
Your employer is not in the business of litigating, and is choosing to lay low. Fine and dandy. But if push came to shove and your employer did not want to risk having an unvaxxed employee, the law would come inno play.
At that point, the religious exemption truly is mostly illusory.
Much of legal principle is illusion. Law is about who controls the rule of law ... and the controller of that rule is the government. The government owns ALL the players.
I find it unbelievable that someone could think abortion is simply a woman’s bodily “right to choose” while denying her right to choose whether to have a needle stuck in her arm.
Honestly, if she thinks the vaccine may be bad for the baby, how is what to do even a question? How could she take that chance? Obviously, longer term, she needs to move out of Commie Oregon. Finally, what is it with all these articles about moms, there is never any mention of a husband. Or did I miss it?
This country will collapse in six months.Health care workers will quit if they have to take the shot...no one wants to work...business will close when they have to enforce only vaccinated people...the medical community is not trusted...nor most federal and state governments...
” The CDC says the risks of COVID-19 for unborn children and their mothers are greater than the unknown risks of the vaccine”
Daily Mail already published the study that newborn babies born in the COvID era are dumber than Democraps or low-IQ.
FERTILITY AND PREGNANCY FACT SHEET
Get the Pregnancy and Fertility Fact Sheet to learn about the unprecedented risks posed by the shot for young people and pregnant women with no significant offsetting benefit of protection for themselves or others.
https://www.truthforhealth.org/fact-sheets-and-position-statements/
Pregnancy Risks and Unknowns
Antibodies to the natural placental protein Syncytin-1 triggered by the experimental gene therapy “Covid shots” make it difficult to become pregnant. But it also means women vaccinated while pregnant risk vaccine-triggered antibodies attacking the placenta causing a miscarriage.
There were no data evaluating long-term impact on pregnancy or fertility submitted to or reviewed by FDA in the data packages that served as the basis for the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)of the COVID shots.
No pregnant women were included among the patient groups studied in the clinical trials which supported EUA (FDA, Office of Chief Scientist, 2021).
The VAERS database1 contains over 16,000 adverse event reports following receipt of the COVID shots with impact on pregnancy2 as of August 6, 2021.
OpenVAERS website3 reflects over 3,400 reported adverse events associated with “pregnancy” as of August 6, 2021.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Shimabukuro, et al., 2021) alleged no “...obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who receive mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.” Critical re-analysis of the data presented in the same article shows the actual spontaneous miscarriage rate to be closer to 82% for women vaccinated in the 1st or 2nd trimester of pregnancy (Blumrick, 2021).
Where did you see that?
Ok, so now we know why preppers do what they do. Some of you still have time. Go out and prep.
I wonder why nobody seems to require all of the companies and agencies promoting the COVID-19 vaccines to repeat the same risk warnings the FDA requires for every other drug or medical procedure in advertisements.
Well I don’t know but I have heard that some major unions have stood for their members on this issue. SEIU and medical and postal workers I think.
>>> ” The CDC says the risks of COVID-19 for unborn children and their mothers are greater than the unknown risks of the vaccine”
The CDC also says these vaccines are safe and effective.
>>> Daily Mail already published the study that newborn babies born in the COvID era are dumber than Democraps or low-IQ.
Check again... I’m not sure, but I think that stat is babies born to VAXXED mothers.
She probably just laid on her back and never told him.
That or he’s a POS…
Well, she makes herself out to be one very smart cookie. Which begs the question of why she is going through this alone.
The number of women who “don’t need a man” is staggering.
So is the number of slutty women.
It’s why so many kids are messed up.
I know multiple intelligent women that are total sluts.
I don’t get it, but whatever…
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