Posted on 09/29/2021 4:22:22 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
Almost 200 Minnesota healthcare workers sued their employers in a bid to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates at their facilities.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of unnamed workers in various hospital systems across the state, identifies about two dozen healthcare institutions, hospitals, and federal officials as defendants. That includes the Mayo Clinic, Fairview Health Services, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Regions Hospital.
“Plaintiffs’ employers are placing a substantial burden on their employees not to practice their religious-based objection to the COVID-19 vaccination or live under the threat of having their religious exemption withdrawn at any time,” the lawsuit (pdf) said.
Employer mandates are forcing workers who have religious objections to the vaccine or who have recovered from COVID-19 to be vaccinated so that healthcare facilities and institutions can say they have higher vaccination numbers to get more money via federal subsidies, said the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs alleged that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s measure specification, in some cases, “coerces Plaintiffs to change or violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs by requiring their employers in order to successfully participate in federal subsidies to report to the [Health and Human Services] employee vaccination rates including religious objectors in the denominator.”
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden announced new federal mandates stipulating that healthcare workers who work at facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding need to get the vaccine. Facilities that do not comply risk losing their federal funding.
Gregory Erickson, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, told the Star Tribune that those who joined the lawsuit include not only people with religious concerns but pregnant women and young people who are healthy.
The young people and pregnant women believe “it’s a coin flip whether they’re in worse shape with COVID or the vaccine,” Erickson remarked.
If a court doesn’t grant an injunction soon, Erickson said that the vaccination mandates will exacerbate the already “critical shortage of nurses in this country right now.”
“If people thought health care was being delayed from COVID, that’s like a soft summer rain compared to what’s going to happen when you fire all these people,” he said, perhaps referring to warnings from hospitals in New York who said that certain services may be curtailed due to staffing shortages over a statewide mandate that went into effect Monday.
The Epoch Times has contacted Mayo Clinic, Fairview Health Services, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Regions Hospital for comment.
“The vast majority of COVID patients hospitalized in the M Health Fairview system are unvaccinated,” Fairview said in a statement earlier this month. “We support the president’s executive order, because overwhelming evidence demonstrates the COVID-19 vaccines are very safe and they dramatically reduce the chance of spreading disease, hospitalization, severe illness and death.”
Jack Phillips
The lawsuits are just beginning.
Read this here on FR and watched the video earlier today.
ATTORNEY THOMAS RENZ “We Got Them. Fact Check This!” ALL NEW WHISTLEBLOWER INFO (
https://rumble.com/vn12v1-attorney-thomas-renz-we-got-them.-fact-check-this-all-new-whistleblower-inf.html
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There are still a lot of people here on FR who think it is nutty to question the effectiveness and safety of the mRNA treatment.
Xi-O’Biden has decide he is king and can command his subjects to do anything he wants since he made the “deal” with the CCP.
He and the globalist think the will kill the nation and destroy the economy and become rulers for life.
WRONG!
The tide is running strong and as the reality seeps out it will get more choppy.
God Bless the USA.
This is going to get very very ugly.
“There are still a lot of people here on FR who think it is nutty to question the effectiveness and safety of the mRNA treatment.”
Yup. The Vaxx Priests of FR from the church of St Fauci. There’s even a clergy member from Germany who is waging a holy war against the rest of us with daily threads s/
The tide needs to become a tsunami and sweep the evil ones away. Unfortunately, the lazy dumb ass american population does nothing.
God will provide the Tsunami. This grab to rule the world will fail. Just like it did at the Tower of Babel.
They can think whatever they like. Just leave me alone.
Of Course the Globalist ComDem’s will never agree to that.
They will be exposed.
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