Hospital Vaccine Mandates Threaten Staffing Shortages

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7 points·AndrewBissell··6 comments

It seems unethical to continue to work as a medical professional and refuse the vaccine, since your chances of catching and spreading the virus to patients is higher if unvaccinated (though, thanks to delta the difference isn't nearly as much as it used to be.)

I guess we'll find out just how much better off those patients are when they have no nurses at all.

The irony is the large swaths of unvaccinated patients who will go without care because of unvaccinated nurses (doctor vaccination compliance rates are ~90-95%).

As vaccine-derived immunity continues to wane and the virus mutates farther and farther away from the original spike used in the first round of vaccinations, the vaccinated will also suffer from a great deal of rationing of care at any hospital that pushes through with mandates.

I think everyone just needs to get their government mind control, tracking device, sterilization vaccine so we can all move on with our lives... I'd like to be comfortable in a bar again.

You can wear a Faraday cage to block the mind control/tracking signals, adopt a baby and gene therapy your adopted babies into your bloodline with garage science CRISPR... We're all going to struggle with mass evictions, economic recessions, next breakthrough zoonotic, blah, blah, blah in less than 5 years.

Also it's hurricane season for the American south, let's get 'er done with COVID...

What seems to have happened is the delta strain has won out against the ones with immune escape. The vaccines work well enough it's just unvaccinated people the are keeping the epidemic going and causing disease and death in vaccinated people. At this point the ethical thing to do if hospital rationing is needed is boot unvaccined covid patients.

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