We recently gave one example of many out there about how huge hospital conglomerates are threatening to fire staff if they don’t get vaccinated. They are simultaneously claiming that they are short-staffed in many areas. They are in crisis mode in some cities because the staff is so thin, but they have the luxury of threatening to fire what many call “yesterday’s heroes” somehow still.
We understand the rationale behind why they are doing it. They don’t want to be liable for people getting Covid-19 at their hospitals and the vaccine reduces the risk although doesn’t eliminate it. One nurse quit her job before being fired. Some are saying that they should not quit, but rather wait to get fired if they don’t want to comply, to create a paper trail.
But this one couldn’t take it and is now going viral for her rant at a local board of supervisor’s meeting. This particular situation is also a state mandate, according to the nurse who resigned. She says she’s from San Diego. “We already have a nursing shortage in America,” she says. “THIS NEEDS TO STOP!”
She mentioned that she sent many emails to the different members of the board of supervisors to ever respond to her requests for help or guidance and thanked “the only one who ever responded”, at the end of the clip.
A registered nurse who resigned from her job over mandatory vaccine requirement.
— KUSI News (@KUSINews) August 18, 2021
“I was no problem working in the healthcare system over the last 18 months, without a vaccine, but now, all of a sudden, I’m a threat to public health?”
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We understand this may be a government mandate in the clip above. But in red states, corporations are deciding this anyway. As we reported before in part:
On Friday, a local Boise, Idaho news station called KBOI, released a story on one of the major local hospitals called Saint Alphonsus. They have multiple locations throughout the region, which many call the Treasure Valley. The report talks about how the hospital has a thin staff “As the COVID wave rolls on”.
The article points to the backlog of surgery from earlier in the year as well as staff out sick with COVID-19, as the main factors stressing the hospital.
There seems to be concern over a staff shortage, which seems odd as Saint Alphonsus Health System as well as Saint Luke’s Health System and Primary Health Group, three of the large providers in the Treasure Valley, made national news by announcing they would be requiring staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or be fired if they don’t get an exemption they can apply for.
In other words, an already short-staffed hospital system is threatening to fire a good chunk of its staff for not being vaccinated, which could create an even larger shortage. KTVB reported on the Saint Alphonsus deadline:
“The policy requires all “colleagues, clinical staff, contractors, and those conducting business in its health care facilities” to submit proof of full vaccination by Sep. 21, 2021.”
