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5 Months Pregnant, I Face Losing My Job And Health Care For Choosing Not To Get A COVID-19 Injection
The Federalist ^ | 08/23/2021 | Lori Fisher

Posted on 08/23/2021 6:40:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The state of Oregon is forcing me to contradict what I think is best for myself and my baby or face losing my job and health coverage when I need it most.

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?


Lori is a mom and an IT Systems Administrator. She is also a 10 year US Army veteran.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; mandate; oregon; pregnancy; tyranny; vaccination; vaccine
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To: Persevero

“ SEIU and medical and postal workers I think.”

You have any proof of that? Or you going with the middle school back of the bus word of mouth research

‘Cause that is really working for us.


41 posted on 08/23/2021 7:27:18 PM PDT by stanne
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To: SeekAndFind

just say no to drugs.


42 posted on 08/23/2021 7:37:34 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought they would defend to the death a women’s right to choose?


43 posted on 08/23/2021 7:43:16 PM PDT by Rowdyone
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To: Hojczyk

Here is a small study of health care workers in Vietnam. It is a pre-print from The Lancet, the UK’s top medical journal. The workers were vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. They were found to be highly contagious with the Delta variant, 250 times more viral load than the original covid strain; and suggesting that their tight working conditions (14 day shifts, sleeping in the hospital) caused them to constantly infect and reinfect one another - and likely the patients they treated as well.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733

This is all Delta and AZ vaccine related, but could explain why Delta is raging in the USA and elsewhere even among the vaccinated. It suggests that the vaccinated, while getting some protection from severe illness, actually have higher viral loads and spread the disease with great rapidity. Or put another way, the vaccinated may be the ultimate super-spreader typhoid Mary’s.


44 posted on 08/23/2021 7:45:11 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: SeekAndFind

WATCH – Individuals Severely Injured by the Experimental COVID-19 Jabs Warn Others, Hear the Voices the Mainstream Media Censors

https://welovetrump.com/2021/08/23/watch-individuals-severely-injured-by-the-experimental-covid-19-jabs-warn-others-hear-the-voices-the-mainstream-media-censors/?utm_source=newsletter_randy&utm_medium=mixed&utm_campaign=newsletter_randy

I highly recommend you share the link below with everyone. It is updated continuously.

https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events

Newest post:

Denise Bjorkman 5 hours ago (August 19, 2021)

Very concerned as the number of times I’m seeing it in our clinic is too frequent to ignore. The last was a young woman in her 20s who is now deceased within a couple of days of the Pfizer. There is not enough transparency neither do I believe data is being collected let alone shared. A data repository is necessary but this idea of stifling information sharing is unacceptable.


45 posted on 08/23/2021 7:47:44 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like she needs to get out of government and get a real job. As an Army vet she shouldn’t have a problem. I am sure mine won’t be a popular opinion around here.


46 posted on 08/23/2021 7:57:02 PM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” - The Taliban /s)
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To: stanne
You have any proof of that?

USPS, exempt from vaccine requirements...
That's the headline for the Aug 3rd Federal news network web page. From what I gather from the SEIU (at least in OR), they are working on collective bargaining on exemptions; even though the SEIU leaders say every one should get the Poke. Took me longer to type that up, then it did to find the info on the net.

47 posted on 08/23/2021 7:59:08 PM PDT by Turbo Pig ('to close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You are misled. The vaccines effectiveness is on that 0.02% so instead if 0.02% chance of death you improve your odds to 0.0012% of death when you add an mrna vaccine.


48 posted on 08/23/2021 8:00:06 PM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” - The Taliban /s)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

The Medscape link is only for medical professionals.


49 posted on 08/23/2021 8:06:48 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a toxic moral pestilence.)
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To: bigbob

The ‘rona erases all freedoms and protections.


50 posted on 08/23/2021 8:07:31 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lori needs to go look at this:

https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/987884/employer-letter-example-vaccine-mandate-objection


51 posted on 08/23/2021 8:33:45 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Oregon really has turned into an authoritarian leftist hellhole. It used to be a nice place.

It appears that termination of the unvaccinated is not required, but is an option. She might not be fired. I wonder if she can find out. Also, I wonder if the thug governor's mandate will be struck down by a judge.

She might be able to raise money using a GoFundMe. She tells a compelling story.

She should not cave. I hope she leaves the state.

52 posted on 08/23/2021 8:38:03 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: airborne

“Make them fire her and go on unemployment.”

They will say she’s ineligible for unemployment.


53 posted on 08/23/2021 8:55:58 PM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: unixfox

“Cover Oregon”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PY7CyTgTBM


54 posted on 08/23/2021 9:10:38 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Cboldt; scouter

My mom works as a part-time nurse at on of the Methodist group hospitals here. Apparently they pushed the “vaccine” mandate out last week, and her religious exemption was denied. I told her to at least force them to fire you, you lose a lot of recourse or possible UI benefits if you just quit.


55 posted on 08/23/2021 9:18:17 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: crz
With ten years in the military she will not be losing her health care

A ten-year veteran has essentially zero health insurance benefits. They aren't retired, so there is no tricare for life, no tricare for retirees. If she got a medical discharge, perhaps, but that's about it.

At best the VA will treat continuing injuries if they're service-connected, but pregnancy certainly is not.

The army does offer something similar to COBRA, but no more than 3 years, at pretty high premiums. And she was what, seven years out?

The only way a majority of non-retiree vets get health insurance is by finding a civilian job that offers it. And if she's forced to quit / fired, then her current insurance is gonna drop her. And who's gonna hire on a half-pregnant lady, even without benefits? Hey, welcome to work, we've got you a month of training and then.. oh hey, you'll be gone for a month or two. Yup.
56 posted on 08/23/2021 9:34:31 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

Good advice if she is determined.

Your mom should offer openess to accomodation. What else can she do in good conscience?

Don’t expect sympathy from the law.


57 posted on 08/23/2021 9:39:06 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Safrguns
83% induced miscarriages from these vaccines.

Do you have a source for this claim?

58 posted on 08/23/2021 9:39:29 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Qiviut
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).

Do you have a link to Blumrick?

59 posted on 08/23/2021 9:57:21 PM PDT by Fury
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To: max americana
Daily Mail already published the study that newborn babies born in the COvID era are dumber...

I saw that too, perhaps 9 months of wearing an oxygen deprivation device aka "mask" isn't so good for the mother's placenta and blood flow to the baby.

60 posted on 08/23/2021 10:29:56 PM PDT by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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