Posted on 08/28/2021 4:15:32 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A lengthy Facebook post from an Ohio nurse who is set to be fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine has nearly half a million shares, and more than 220,000 comments.
“I’m an RN of 10 years and I am being fired December 1. I’m not political. I don’t watch the news. I do my job and I go home to my family. I love caring for others from every single walk of life and I take that responsibility seriously,” Melissa Rexroth said in a Facebook post written in the early morning last Saturday.
WBNS confirmed that Rexroth is a registered nurse in Ohio, though she did not say where she worked in her Facebook post.
“Last year I worked the floor no one else wanted to,” she continued, referring to the COVID-19 floor. “I have my own medical issues, but I willingly worked that floor. I sat face to face with your loved ones without fear because I trust science when it says the survival rate is greater than 99%. However, I don’t judge anyone who is scared. If I hadn’t seen all the things I’ve seen with my own eyes, I would probably be scared too.”
Rexroth continued, noting that most of the patients she saw last year, even before the COVID-19 vaccine was available, survived the illness and “walked out the door.”
“This year I’m working in the ER and will be fired December 1st for refusing a [vaccine],” she said. “How is it possible that I worked the entire past year, most shifts on said floor, many times without the proper equipment, and without the [vaccine], but today I am expendable?”...
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But good for her for going down fighting.
I will quit my company if they mandate it and I will do it in a way that causes the greatest rift as possible.
EMPLOYERS, INSTITUTIONS, AND ALL PEOPLE IN ILLINOIS MUST ALLOW CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO MANDATED VACCINES AND TESTING (Illinois)
The Health Care Right of Conscience Act provides that employers and institutions in Illinois are forbidden from orally questioning someone about their conscientious objection to health care services. Health care services include vaccination status, because of the law’s broad definition of what health care services are, which includes medication. Vaccines are recognized as medicine, even by the CDC. The law is also clear that employment cannot be conditioned on whether a person has such an objection.
According to the law, health care means any phase of patient care, including but not limited to care or treatment rendered by any person at any public or private location, intended for physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
It is unlawful to discriminate against any applicant based on their conscientious objection to health care (vaccination, and “testing” specifically included), in terms of employment, admission to or participation in any programs for which they would otherwise be eligible, or to discriminate in relation thereto, in any other manner.
The language in the Act is so broad that it prohibits any person from discriminating against any other person, in any way (specifically including hiring, licensing, promotion, or any privilege), because of their conscientious refusal to receive health care (a vaccine or testing).
This law supercedes all law in Illinois that is inconsistent with it. That means that not even Lori Lightfoot, JB Pritzker, a concert venue, or a grocery store can condition services or entry, or anything else upon vaccination status without an exception for conscientious objectors.
Tip: To articulate a religious exemption to mandated testing, the Bible verses Matthew 9:12 and Mark 7:21-23 may be helpful to articulate your objection.
The first comment on this post includes a link for more information.
Pertinent sections of the Act:
(745 ILCS 70/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5307)
Sec. 7. Discrimination by employers or institutions. It shall be unlawful for any public or private employer, entity, agency, institution, official or person, including but not limited to, a medical, nursing or other medical training institution, to deny admission because of, to place any reference in its application form concerning, to orally question about, to impose any burdens in terms or conditions of employment on, or to otherwise discriminate against, any applicant, in terms of employment, admission to or participation in any programs for which the applicant is eligible, or to discriminate in relation thereto, in any other manner, on account of the applicant’s refusal to receive, obtain, accept, perform, counsel, suggest, recommend, refer, assist or participate in any way in any forms of health care services contrary to his or her conscience.
(745 ILCS 70/5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5305)
Sec. 5. Discrimination. It shall be unlawful for any person, public or private institution, or public official to discriminate against any person in any manner, including but not limited to, licensing, hiring, promotion, transfer, staff appointment, hospital, managed care entity, or any other privileges, because of such person’s conscientious refusal to receive, obtain, accept, perform, assist, counsel, suggest, recommend, refer or participate in any way in any particular form of health care services contrary to his or her conscience.
(745 ILCS 70/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5302)
Sec. 2. Findings and policy. The General Assembly finds and declares that people and organizations hold different beliefs about whether certain health care services are morally acceptable. It is the public policy of the State of Illinois to respect and protect the right of conscience of all persons who refuse to obtain, receive or accept, or who are engaged in, the delivery of, arrangement for, or payment of health care services and medical care whether acting individually, corporately, or in association with other persons; and to prohibit all forms of discrimination, disqualification, coercion, disability or imposition of liability upon such persons or entities by reason of their refusing to act contrary to their conscience or conscientious convictions in providing, paying for, or refusing to obtain, receive, accept, deliver, pay for, or arrange for the payment of health care services and medical care. It is also the public policy of the State of Illinois to ensure that patients receive timely access to information and medically appropriate care.
(745 ILCS 70/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5303)
Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly otherwise requires:
(a) “Health care” means any phase of patient care, including but not limited to, testing; diagnosis; prognosis; ancillary research; instructions; family planning, counselling, referrals, or any other advice in connection with the use or procurement of contraceptives and sterilization or abortion procedures; medication; surgery or other care or treatment rendered by a physician or physicians, nurses, paraprofessionals or health care facility, intended for the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of persons; or an abortion as defined by the Reproductive Health Act;
(b) “Physician” means any person who is licensed by the State of Illinois under the Medical Practice Act of 1987;
(c) “Health care personnel” means any nurse, nurses’ aide, medical school student, professional, paraprofessional or any other person who furnishes, or assists in the furnishing of, health care services;
(d) “Health care facility” means any public or private hospital, clinic, center, medical school, medical training institution, laboratory or diagnostic facility, physician’s office, infirmary, dispensary, ambulatory surgical treatment center or other institution or location wherein health care services are provided to any person, including physician organizations and associations, networks, joint ventures, and all other combinations of those organizations;
(e) “Conscience” means a sincerely held set of moral convictions arising from belief in and relation to God, or which, though not so derived, arises from a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by God among adherents to religious faiths;
What county is this again?
“Last year I worked the floor no one else wanted to,” she continued, referring to the COVID-19 floor. “I have my own medical issues, but I willingly worked that floor. I sat face to face with your loved ones without fear because I trust science when it says the survival rate is greater than 99%.
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“We’re all in this together”, has been replaced with the authoritarian “no jab, no job”. No good deed goes unpunished.
Yep. Mine is getting very passive-aggressive about it.
Don’t quit, file a religious exemption.
If they don’t accept it and fire you, sue for civil rights discrimination.
USSA
The nurse refused an order and adhere to hospital policy. That is why she is getting fired.
Maybe she should have filed an exemption and see if that will work.
Elect a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in your county. This sheriff has the legal and armed muscle to protect your families and community from leftist fascists.
The USSA.
After working a year on a COVID floor, the nurse probably has oLympic grade immunity to the virus.
It’s ludicrous to demand she get the vax when she’s probably got the best immunity going.
So wrong forcing the vax on the frontline nurses.
The medical community is an incestuous cult of bureaucrats, compliant professionals, and Big Pharma.
An employer has no right to require you to inject an experimental substance.
If she claimed to be LGBTQXYZ they wouldn’t say a word.
“I will quit my company if they mandate it and I will do it in a way that causes the greatest rift as possible.”
I suggest an open email letter to all employees and management. Something stating that since the manufactures are not liable, if anything goes wrong, I will sue the people who coerced me into taking the vaccine.
Note: it does not sound like the brand name “Comirnaty” which is the licensed FDA version is available yet and the EUA version is still being used and therefor the mfg. is still not liable.
Agreed. Make it as difficult and painful as possible.
Advice from my brother, a well know labor lawyer: Don’t quit. Don’t threaten to quit. Don’t retire. Don’t even talk of retirement. As far as they’re concerned, you love your job and you want to work there until you’re 95. Make them fire you. Then you may have a chance to sue them. But if you quit or retire then you can’t sue them.
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