‘We are beyond the point of exhaustion’: Massachusetts hospital leaders issue dire warning amid omicron surge

MassLive.com ^

[jmacusa]

Like my hospital in southern NJ. We do have Covid cases but tonight the ER was,... boring.

[jmacusa]

The ‘’free lunch’’ crowd has been using the ER as a primary care doctors office for years.

[Pajamajan]

I predict there is going to be a mass exodus from the healthcare professions, as a result of SCOTUS outrageous ruling, that government can force the jabs on their workers.

This article is just a glimpse of this unfolding tragedy.

[ronnie raygun]

when you fire your staff good things happen. black and brown ahead of the line

[MrRelevant]

Ideally what you say is somewhat accurate but in reality…. She’s been vaxxed, she’s been working, she’s been there for decades. Walking away from her job ensures a pay cut and loss of tenure, if the hospital doesn’t fold. We’re talking about Massachusetts here. She’d also have to leave the health and care of her patients aside while she fights. That’s the main thing really… what’s best for the patients? She pays a lot in union dues… maybe they should take up the fight, right? But MNA sucks… they rarely do the bidding of their workers so this is the conundrum…. Walk away from a lucrative job where the prospect getting a similar job with similar pay doesn’t exist for an ideal… or helping her patients now and continuing to be a pawn in this silly game.

[mewzilla]

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting

Per the State’s dashboard, they’re not maxed out.

And, interestingly, about half the hospitalizations are vaxxed...

[matt04]

If you look at the graph for the cases, which we love using to justify lockdowns, it’s down to about 11,000 and change per day when just a week or so ago it was over 20,000. Cases are rapidly declining just as rapidly as the road. Within a couple weeks I suspect it will pretty much be over. You may have a few people wagon going to the hospital, but those people were in poor health anyway I’m probably would have been in the hospital from the regular flu.

[precisionshootist]

"Ideally what you say is somewhat accurate but in reality…. She’s been vaxxed, she’s been working, she’s been there for decades. Walking away from her job ensures a pay cut and loss of tenure, if the hospital doesn’t fold. We’re talking about Massachusetts here. She’d also have to leave the health and care of her patients aside while she fights. "

I do understand walking away (at least conducting a walk out) would not have been easy and it's not something anyone wants to do but what we are talking about is leftist tryanny (literally communism). It's something that must be stopped in the early stages.

Here in Texas, Southwest Airlines pilots actually did call out (staged a walk out) and they had to cancel thousands of flights. It would have put Southwest under had it continued but the airline back peddled on the mandate.

As far as the patients are concerned. What I suggested here was a walk out when Baylor was the first major hospital to announce a mandate. That was the time to act. Baylor would have had to hire outside workers who would charge $100 an hour to take care of their patients. One way or another patient care is going to suffer. The difference is a walk out could have ended it quickly.

Once again I understand this would not have been a pleasant situation to be in but it was clearly ONLY going to get worse and that is still the case.

This is going to continue until those that have the power to stop it do so. Unfortunately the longer this goes the less chance we have of successfully stopping it.