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I am a nurse and I was officially fired today.
I was the first nurse to volunteer on the first day at the large scale covid triage and testing site in Portland Oregon in March of 2020.
I worked 60 hours a week over the winter surge in November and December 2020.
1/— UNMASK OREGON KIDS (@oregon_mom_) December 2, 2021
My medical exemption was denied b/c my former employer does not recognize natural immunity. My religious exemption was denied b/c my former employer made up parameters for what they considered a sincerely held religious belief and they said I did not meet their criteria. 2/
My telework exemption was denied because I might have to come into a building for some meeting, sometime in the future. The Oregon State Board of Nursing has a rule that I technically can't be licensed and practice nurse without being fully vaccinated. 3/
Today I got word that there is a COVID outbreak in a unit at my workplace. A hundred percent of the staff in that unit are vaccinated. But I can't walk into my home office, sit down at my desk and work. 4/

But He is good all the time. And all the time He is good. I'd make the same decision tomorrow. I assessed my own health and made a decision and I'm completely at peace with that decision, despite the ramifications of losing a job.