Posted on 08/24/2021 8:19:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
there are still concerns about COVID-19 vaccines, even after the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine.
Health care workers protest vaccine mandate "When we're going to lose all of our nurses and then all of a sudden one of our three vaccines gets FDA approved so we don't lose nurses — nurses are still not going to get it regardless if it's FDA approved," said Krissy Licht, a Carlsbad nurse. "We are not going to do that."
Licht was one of the first people in the state to get vaccinated, but it's something she regrets now.
"Probably would not have gotten it," Licht said. "I had already gotten COVID, was one of the first people in New Mexico to get COVID, and I got it and I was fine. Then I got vaccinated, that's when I got really sick."
The protesters said mandating the vaccine will create a shortage of staff in rural hospitals. They worry the understaffed hospitals will have to shut their doors.
The governor's office said the shortage won't be from those who won't get vaccinated. The bigger issue is fighting burnout as COVID-19 cases skyrocket in New Mexico again.
Nora Meyers Sackett, the governor's press secretary, shared the following statement:
"Any hospital workers who claim to object to the vaccine need not resign – there are, within the state's public health order, three straightforward and simple means by which an individual may document their objection and thus not be required to be vaccinated."
There are medical, religious and disability exemptions for the vaccine.
Why don’t these people get antibody tested or reactive T cell testing. Prove they are good, then sue for wrongful termination and employer harassment?
So what’s the problem
Easy to opt out. It appears we have a RN who is seeking her 15 minutes of fame.
Ho-Hum
My stepdaughter participated in a protest. She told me that the staff at her hospital are very divided over the mandate.
Didn’t they announce today they’re not going to do more antibody testing?
Who are “they”?
Did they?
“Easy to opt out.“
Not if you do not have a medical reason a disability or are religious. What about those who simply wish to exercise their American right to not participate? You are very cavalier with other people’s freedoms.
How about you don’t think its worth to use such a rush job medication which uses completely different ( clever, yes) method of stimulating immune system.Plus the real histories of problems with rush, and even slow process, medicine approval.
Really not the point right?
They are mandating vaccines which have considerable evidence that they not only don’t work, but are dangerous to the recipients.
Nevermind the fact that it is being used as part of the cancel culture.
You pro-vaccine propaganda supporters are really a heartless bunch.
There are plenty of English speaking countries willing to work for half the salary of American nurses from Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Jamaica, Barbados and other West Indies countries in Caribbean Sea.
Dangerous on what basis? Something with 0.0018% adverse effects is dangerous? DO you have any actual data or you are just spouting baseless opinions?
You already tried that lie. It didn’t work last time, and it isn’t working this time
I have T cell issues but still, even if not, not interested. Not anti vaxxer, simply not interested.
Very smart people, lot smarter than you and me invented the mRNA technique to formulate vaccines in record short time.
Read the whole article, 0.0018% risk = 99.9982% safe.
Surgeons would kill to get that safety level for elective surgery.
I will defend your right to not participate in any health related mandate. But you should also respect employers and other institutions and other people who do not wish to congregate with un-vaccinated people.
Hahahah you must be a liberal. You simply spout OPINIONS and call names to others without an iota of evidence. You belong on DUmmies.
The how world is divided over covid, it’s utterly amazing.
Makes you wonder if that’s the plan.
You think that hospitals should replace domestic nurses with other countries? All of them, or just the “troublemakers.”
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