I don’t know why I was thinking the federal government would pay. Shakes cobwebs out of head
I don’t know if the hospital will pay or the employees. I suspect the latter, as it’s a nonprofit hospital, and I doubt it has that kind of money. Of course, most of the workers might cave and get the vaccine, but this is a very conservative, libertarian, contrarian population, and just the fact there’s a mandate sends the constantly-angry citizenry into full-blown rage. It’s possible a game of chicken will ensue, with workers betting the hospital will pay for the tests to avoid shutting down and the hospital betting the workers want to eat and pay mortgages.
Yeah, pretty much, I think. It feels good to shout abuse at the people you really disagree with, particularly when shouting abuse has almost no negative consequences.
Good Lord. I found out today that nearly 98% of all healthcare workers in my province are vaccinated. Of the small remainder, they are evenly split between casual, part time and full time. The unvaccinated are currently on unpaid leave, and will be fired at the end of the week. For those fired, they will be unable to collect unemployment, and there will be few jobs open to them ANYwhere if they remain unvaccinated.
In all the discussion of the Aaron Rodgers brouhaha, I’ve seen many people who take the Packers to task as a HIPPA [sic] violation by revealing his health information.
The Packers. Who, like every team in the NFL, put out a list of injured players (and the nature of their injury) every week.
Republicans, Americans living in rural areas and white evangelical Christians…
Which describes a friend of ours quite succinctly. Heard from his wife today that he will be retiring from the FBI earlier than planned (although he is already eligible for retirement) due to the requirement for all Federal employees to get vaccinated. He and his wife have both had COVID (neither a terribly severe case), and they both appear to be of the camp that their naturally-acquired immunity is sufficient, even superior, to a vaccine-acquired immunity. According to her, two agents died after receiving their vaccinations (never mind that a causal relationship was never established), and that is too big a risk for them.
I always knew he was of a conservative/libertarian bent, but we mostly avoid terribly divisive political discussions and stick to Tolkien, whiskey, and SCUBA diving. And I do genuinely like the guy. But this can’t help but color my feelings toward him. Fortunately, we don’t see them very often, so it’s not something I have to really confront much.
For this and similar posts. Who ARE these people who say they know several people who…?
They must know millions of other people with sufficient familiarity to speak about their post-vaccination health.
In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will “detox the vaxx” for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates…
“Once you’re injected, the lifesaving vaccination process has already begun. You can’t unring a bell. It’s just not physically possible,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
Other ways to remove the vaccine from your body are cupping therapy and ‘instructions on how to “un-inject” shots using syringes.’
Yeah. Per the article, ‘“The transaction process for the mRNA vaccine is fairly quick. Basically, by the time you get out to your car, sorry, the magic has already started,” [Rasmussen] said.’
Crackpot also claims that there is a “liquified computing system” inside the vaccines. Lady, get the fuck out of here and stop telling people about this. The damned thing includes a liquified RTX-3090 and I’m currently mining BitCoin in my head, so don’t be telling everyone my secrets.
Yeah, that video is possibly the best (no sarcasm) antivaxx thing I’ve ever seen. I’m tempted to forward it to certain people myself. If every antivaxx person could be convinced to get people off their backs by getting the vaccine, but secretly “undoing its effects” by taking an epsom salts and clay bath afterward, that would be an enormous win.
ETA: I missed the borax part. How harmful is a cup of borax diluted in a many-gallons of water bath?