Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 doses of vaccine
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What kind of punishment could the employee be looking at ?
I'm in constant constant stress about getting the virus because I breathe harder than most people.
Young people are in stress because they are jobless.
Old people are scared of both dieing and being alone.
Granted, he may escape prison due to incompetence to stand trial.
If they thought that it was worth ruining them, they must have believe that they work.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong and the execution of the plan needs to account for that.
It’s still interesting to wonder what they were thinking, since it might be informative about how to make the plan better, or about risks that have not yet materialized.
Making sure the vaccine is monitored and distributed correctly is a problem to be solved.
The motivation as to why a someone wouldn’t want that is a thought experiment.
That’s how I interpreted the post.
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I couldn’t read due to the paywall but really wonder what would be going through someone’s head to do that... it’s one thing to not want a vaccine (personally I’d rather wait a bit), but another to actively sabotage one of the biggest medical initiatives in our lifetime.
... No. Where on earth did you get that? It depends what your government has negotiated with the drug company, but generally somewhere between 10 and 20 euro a dose, or under 5 euro a dose for Oxford.
EU prices, for instance: https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-pfizer-astrazeneca-mode...
im a diesel engine mechanic by trade and this sounds entirely within the realm of human error. As someone in a "manager"-ish position though, termination sounds a little on the extreme side considering healthcare is strained to the breaking point currently. people get in a rush sometimes.
I once caught an employee i hired a few years back watering down something called DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) with tap water. DEF is extremely critical in modern trucks as it arrests and reduces gasses and chemicals from diesel exhaust that directly contribute to climate change and global warming. Newer trucks wont even shift into drive without it. When i asked him why he was ruining all our DEF he pointed out that his last employer did this routinely to get customers in and out faster and reduce costs. Instead of firing him I explained how the diesel particulate filter works, and why adding tap water would foul it.
That's a deliberate act, but the thing that's missing is the purpose they had for removing it.
Did they put it out because they thought it was going to be used for a vaccination drive that day, but it wasn't?
Did they do it to purposefully ruin it? They didn't acknowledge that.
Was it improperly stored in a refrigeration unit that is restricted for only storing other things and the person put it out and posted about it, but nobody claimed it? Maybe it was in a beer fridge or the break room fridge on cleanout day.
Lots of options. In the example the poster said, it was a deliberate act, but in the poster's case, the intent wasn't to ruin things, even if that would have resulted from the deliberare act.
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