Frontline Health Care Workers Protest Mandatory Vaccination in California

Epoch Times ^ | 08/24/2021 | Linda Jiang

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With California’s deadline of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for all health care workers approaching, boycotts are gaining momentum.

On Aug. 21, California’s frontline health care workers held simultaneous protests in Riverside and Irvine against the government’s mandatory vaccination order at Kaiser Permanente-Riverside Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Irvine Medical Center.

Many protesters told The Epoch Times that their hospitals had given them an ultimatum: they had until Sept. 30 to choose between mandatory vaccination and getting fired.

The California Department of Public Health issued an announcement on Aug. 5 that workers in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care homes, and other health care-related fields must be vaccinated by Sept. 30.

Kristina, a registered nurse in California, said her hospital requires staff who are not vaccinated to be tested twice a week. “If we still don’t meet those criteria to have our exemption approved, then up on October 1 we’re going to be placed on 45 days unpaid administrative leave and after that, they said they don’t know what they’re going to do but we can assume what they’re going to do, we’re gonna get fired.”

As a health care worker who has been on the front lines during the outbreak, Kristina believes that mandatory vaccination policies are not for public safety, but are instead politically motivated. For example, people who oppose the mandate and fight for freedom of choice are labeled as “anti-vaccine” and “anti-science.”

“We’re super pro-science. We want people to survive this. We want this pandemic to end more than anybody does,” Kristina said. But as a health care professional, she said she needs to tell people that “it’s not as safe and effective that people are saying.”

She pointed out that the Coronavirus vaccines are being pushed too fast and did not go through the normal clinical trial stage.

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She pointed out that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccines are being pushed too fast and did not go through the normal clinical trial stage. “We’re seeing a lot of patients come in with cardiac issues, stroke, pulmonary embolisms and blood clots in general after receiving these vaccines, and they’re varying in ages, from their 20s all the way to 70s and we’re seeing a lot more adverse reactions than the CDC and all those people are reporting on,” she revealed.

Currently, there has been a spate of serious adverse events and deaths due to vaccination. The effectiveness of the vaccines has also been called into question. In July, a cluster of infections occurred in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, where 74 percent of the 469 cases had been vaccinated.

“What is the point of getting the vaccine, if we’re still gonna spread it?” Kristina asked.

“I know that there’s been a couple studies that have come out [about] how the coronavirus spike proteins affect our cardiac cells, which makes a lot of sense, because we’re having increases of myocardial infarctions, mild carditis, pericarditis, all of these heart issues,” she added.

[cgbg]

If you don’t own your body you are a slave.

It is just that simple.

[Falconspeed]

“Choose between mandatory vaccination and getting fired.”

Get fired. But first, get an appointment with HR, have HR email you an invitation to an appointment, accept the invitation, record the appointment, tell them why vaccines are useless (vaccinated people are still getting sick), have them write a letter explaining their dismissal of you, have them sign the letter, and then keep the recording the letter. Why? Because legal cases will be created soon to support the people fired for not taking a shot.

If California leaders create emergencies to force a shot, then new emergencies will be created to force other actions.

[precisionshootist]

In my opinion these hospital workers should all get another job immediately while the numbers are on their side. They could literally cripple any hospital if enough of them left at once. That would put an end to this mandate crap. Get another job and an attorney and sue the former employer. A mass walk out followed by dozens of law suits would put most hospitals out of business and that’s exactly what needs to happen here.

[Hojczyk]

They know what the scam is...they should just protest or quit at a future date...cannot quit all at once because someone might die...

[blueplum]

Just like air traffic controllers, they may be opening a can of worms.

The first responders insisted on ‘hazard pay’ wage differential because there was no vaccine and they were ‘risking their lives’. They elbowed the seniors in nursing homes out of line to get the first vaccines and now they don’t want the vaccines?

Cut the hazard pay for them, then, if there’s no hazard

The Philippines exports 17,000 nurses a year trained specifically in western medicine, and Vietnam also exports nurses. Cuban nurses and doctors are literally slaves, and would love to come to the US. And unlike California liberals, they’re all conservatives.

[ViLaLuz]

Good advice.