Posted on 09/27/2021 4:33:51 PM PDT by lightman
In a press conference Monday afternoon, Governor Hochul confirmed that she would sign an executive order giving her the emergency power to deploy the National Guard to cover staffing shortages caused by the midnight deadline for anyone who remains unvaccinated in violation of her state's Wuhan coronavirus vaccine mandate.
"I will be signing an executive order to give me the emergency powers necessary to address these shortages where they occur," Hochul declared. "That's going to allow me to deploy the National Guard who are medically trained, deploy people who've been retired who may have had a license lapse, [and] bring in people from elsewhere," Hochul explained.
"We'll be nation-leading with our mandate which strikes at midnight tonight when everyone is expected in a hospital in the state of New York — or a healthcare facility — to have been vaccinated," Hochul said proudly while wearing a necklace that says "vaxed."
"That is not my first position though, my friends — my desire is to have the people who've been out there continue to work in their jobs, work in them safely. And to all the other healthcare workers who are vaccinated, they also deserve to know that the people they're working with will not get them sick," said Hochul.
"It's fundamentally unfair," said Hochul of the fact that some New Yorkers who work in healthcare haven't gotten vaccinated. "It doesn't have to be this way," she added, saying "there are not legitimate religious exemptions" and her having to call in the National Guard to cover for the healthcare workers fired under her mandate "is so unnecessary."
The governor's office, in recent days, has cited that "some 16% of the state's 450,000 hospital staff" are still not fully vaccinated, according to Reuters, meaning around 72,000 people will no longer be eligible to work as of midnight Monday. Hochul did say in her eleventh-hour pitch that she was hearing stories of healthcare workers scrambling to get vaccinated before the deadline.
Speaking of legal challenges to New York's mandate Hochul said she feels "very confident about our chances in court" and cited a Supreme Court ruling that "communities have a right to self-defense."
"We have a right to defend our people against a global pandemic," Hochul added, "and we're entitled to take all means necessary to do that."
All necessary means, apparently, includes creating an artificial hospital staff shortage amid a global pandemic.
As Leah reported earlier Monday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) was working on plans to replace unvaccinated healthcare workers who would no longer be able to work under the state's vaccine mandate including working with the Biden administration to expedite visa applications for vaccinated healthcare workers.
Hochul said earlier that "we are still in a battle against COVID to protect our loved ones, and we need to fight with every tool at our disposal." One of those tools, apparently, is for Hochul to take the ability to work away from any state hospital or healthcare worker who is unvaccinated and grant herself the emergency power to deploy the National Guard to fill the vacancies her state's mandate created.
True enough...
Maybe the NFL and other pro sports leagues can deploy the National Guard to replace any players who refuse to get vaccinated. :-P
It is the totalitarian society the Democrat Party wants. The claim they are 100% against it, yet they are laying the groundwork for it. The 3 trillion dollar bill is filled with little laws that will give them unreasonable and unconstitutional power over the citizens. It’s fascism, and the Democrats are Fascists
Talk about being drunk with power! This idiot is going to get a lot of people killed.
It is a safe bet that the governor, her family,her extended family, and her political cronies, will not be treated by members of the National Guard. Only the hoi polloi will suffer that indignity. As is their apparent duty being good serfs.
National Guard doesn’t show up, refuses to get vaccinated too.
C U Next Tuesday!
She signed an executive order granting herself the powah.
Nice little dictatortw..it we have there.
A lot of NG medical people work in medical or fist responder positions in the civilian world. Good luck keeping the hospitals staffed by gutting the paramedic and firefighting crews throughout the state.
Also a lot of New York NG units are going to be looking up how the state treats UA and awol National Guard troops and finding out that they aren’t subject to UCMJ if they’re not on federal orders.
"The unvaccinated must pay, off to the camps with them!"
How bout putting the Guard at the border? Nah. That’s too obvious.
the problem with that is the Gov can only draw on her own state’s resources - so she is drawing personnel from existing civilian HCW staff who incidentally happen to also be weekendwarriors.
To the left the National Guard is a wind up toy to be used for the implementation of social experiments.
The idiocy of this should be obvious to anyone with half a brain:
1. Fire thousands of workers in an industry that is already under stress.
2. Activate the National Guard to replace those health care workers -- leaving the employers of those NG personnel short of staff.
3. And do all this while millions of employers can't even find enough workers to fill the positions they already have open.
I honestly think an IQ above a mildly retarded level disqualifies anyone from serving in government in New York.
Four Interstate highways connect the New York City area with the rest of the country. A fifth Interstate (I-84) is on the northern edge of the NYC metro area. If truck drivers decided to shut down or block vehicle delivery traffic into the area, all groceries would be emptied within a week. There aren’t enough police or National Guard to control the rioting. This is true for every large metro area, even more so for the West Coast cities.
I wouldn't want to be an insurance company dealing with a claim filed by the family of a patient treated by non-hospital employees.
Demon rat vboters getting what they want. Too bad that selfishness is harming so many other New Yorkers. Keep voting “D” you fools.
The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one.
She is a high priestess in the Church of Covid
“First thing is I’m replacing everybody who isn’t willing to be experimented on. Second thing is that’s not my first position,” she said.
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