enormous protest going on at Stanford Hospital carried out by staff, who are enraged by the decisio

[soothsayer]

Link to tweet

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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
Wow

Louie G 🇩🇪🇲🇽🇺🇲
@LouGarza86
There is an enormous protest going on at Stanford
Hospital carried out by staff, who are enraged by the decision by hospital execs to give themselves the covid vaccine and other powerful administrators who are AT HOME before giving it to nurses and physicians

who are a contact with patients. This is all you need to know about American healthcare: billionaires get care first, then hospital CEO and other millionaires while those who sacrifice their lives everyday are abandoned. This is America.

[SoonerPride]

1. They should inject the CEO class with a placebo

Or bleach

[Native]

2. I'm with ya on the bleach.

[Tribetime]

19. Bleach 👍

[Rebl2]

54. Excellent idea

This just blows my mind at how selfish they are

[procon]

3. That's pretty ballsy, they don't even bother to hide

the privileged entitlement their wealth buys them.

[OldBaldy1701E]

22. Why should they?

What have we done in the last few decades but let them? Have we done anything (besides talk) to stop them? What has that effort accomplished? This is yet another topic that gets the same treatment as tomacco got from Homer Simpson.

Homer: (staring at the last tomacco plant he created) But how can I stop this?

Lisa: Destroy that plant!

Homer: But Lisa, I am just one person, what can one person do about any of this?

Lisa: It's right there in front of you, Dad! Destroy it!

Homer: But this is so much bigger than me. What can a single person...(you get the idea)

We know what has to be done. It won't be. Too many people would have to give up certain levels of modern convenience and modern life. (The rich cannot make money if you don't give it to them). Now, this shouldn't be a big deal, considering what the outcome would be, but some people just cannot let go of their convenience. Even to stop the destruction of the entire country in the name of greed.

[Ahpook]

56. Fuck, I so agree

All we hear from anyone or anybody is what we should be doing. Listened to this shit for 20 years.

I'm sure it has been this way for ages in this country? Pubs are playing a nasty game, and as usual not a fucking word from anyone.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

44. I posted a thread yesterday about my partner's hospital doing the same thing and people here ...

.... we’re defending it. Something about how admins are in the trenches...

The fuck they are.

Maybe pre pandemic they might stick their beaks in the patient areas. They are not now. The CFO and VP Of Finance ain’t hanging around on the Covid floor

[procon]

55. I read your piece and was likewise bemused by those

who think desk bound admins are synonymous with front line medical staff who are ass deep in messy critical care. They watch too many TV doctor shows. Most admins I knew were essentially retired from medicine and hadn't touched a patient in years, if not decades.

I was an RN for 30 something years and the suits would never come into pt care areas let alone actually get hands on. And you wouldn't want them to either.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Eat the rich instead of coddling them.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dufor2020runoff

A few questions: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14520874

and answers: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14520972

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. Eat the rich to feed the poor until there are no rich no more.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

64. That is the way it should be.

We can't afford these rich narcissistic pigs.
Round them up and drop them in the ocean
with just thier underwear hundreds of miles away from any land. What your money isn't saving you? well now you know how the poor and homeless feel like. And all your money is going to help people with little or no money.. now die!

[soldierant]

32. Eat the rich if you can, without puking.

That would just be a waste of perfectly good stomach acid.

[OldBaldy1701E]

76. No thanks

I have had to choke down enough cheap, greasy, mostly rotten flesh masquerading as expensive prime cuts. Time to toss out the tray and make something more palatable.

[smb]

85. Caveat Emptor

I have had to choke down enough cheap, greasy, mostly rotten flesh masquerading as expensive prime cuts.

Trump steaks, I assume...?

[EarnestPutz]

5. If Lori Loughlin and her husband are in prison and are getting the vaccine, I'd like to suggest that

....these hospital executives get thrown into prison right after getting their shots. Seems only fair, no?

[William Seger]

35. How about each executive who gets the vaccine has to relieve a doctor or nurse who hasn't

[wnylib]

45. +1000

[mjvpi]

82. Or clean hospital rooms after someone dies of covid.

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Those people are truly essential workers.

[William Seger]

83. Yeah, that would be good for those unqualified for anything else

[Doremus]

89. I'd hate to be the patient though.

Better is the idea down thread that they should have to take over for the cleaning crew, imo.

[cwydro]

6. Not in the least surprised.

And I’m quite sure that professional athletes and the Tom Cruises of the world are getting it too.

I predicted that money would determine who gets it first. Disgusting.

[sop]

7. Did anyone seriously believe it would be otherwise?

[cwydro]

15. I sure didn't.

And even as we type away on our useless keyboards, I feel certain that pro athletes and Hollywood are all getting vaccinated.

Amazing anyone would think any differently.

[whathehell]

25. The hospital staff obviously did..

and had every right to. I hope they kick ass.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Nope.

[blueinredohio]

8. Good for them. Call these assholes out.

[smirkymonkey]

9. What is it lately?

These millionaires and billionaires (mostly Republicans) aren't even trying to hide their crimes and egregious flauting of social norms and morality. We are pretty much almost in French Revolution territory here, yet we are putting up with this shit and have been for a long time.

It's because they are never held accountable! Not by the government, not by the law and not by us. What can be done about this? It is only going to continue to get worse. The rich take and take and take from society - ALL THE REST OF US - and they prosper and benefit at our expense. They never face harsh penalties even for the worst crimes, and they laugh in our faces when we tell them they are going to pay for what they have done.

I am so damn sick of it!

Time to bring this back:

[OldBaldy1701E]

24. Hate to break it to you smirky...

But the overblown dick waving and our general acceptance (if not downright worship) of it IS the societal norm these days.

[JudyM]

33. This moment in time we should be starkly telling the public what is happening because it's so clear.

[pansypoo53219]

41. i keep trying to tell my conservative epal this is a guillotine issue. no, its not the rich's money.

yes, more taxes, it investment in civilization. how do you spend billions? fuck the rich. or well, shake them for our trickle.

kill zombie reagan. grover norquist can go to the guillotine 1st.

[MerryBlooms]

10. Roaches of the healthcare industry. Those assholes sit at the top

making decisions they know will kill their staff, while their asses sit at home in their mansions all safe and surrounded by help that is also risking their lives every day. I despise these monsters with every fiber of my being. No torches and screamers at their mansions.

[dalton99a]

16. +1. Leeches and roaches

[questionseverything]

51. As long as we allow healthcare to be a "for profit industry "

This is what we will get

Some things are too important for capitalism, healthcare is one of those things

[spanone]

11. I am fucking enraged too.

...goddamn these people

[lpbk2713]

12. Contrast this with the hospital's housekeeping employees.

Not only are they at the bottom end of the wage scale but they are the ones who clean up the hazmat.

[2naSalit]

13. Single payer would eliminate this.

[tirebiter]

17. Ethics should already have that covered.

Nor would Stanford necessarily be a part of any single payer plan.

[pnwmom]

18. I'm pro Single payer but I don't see how it would prevent administrators from doing this.

Medicare is Single payer and Stanford accepts Medicare. And even under 100% single payer, there would still be some administrators in each hospital.

[dansolo]

75. No it wouldn't

Single payer (or M4A) will do absolutely nothing to curtail the behavior of these greedy fucks. None of those plans will be possible as long as healthcare is for-profit. Hospitals are the worst. I never understood why all the focus is on the insurance companies, when it is the hospitals that are mostly responsible for the spiraling healthcare costs.

[sheshe2]

14. Those that did not believe in the virus get the vaccine?

Those on the front lines can eat it!

FUCK YOU!

[AmyStrange]

20. WTF!!

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As usual, the people who ACTUALLY DO THE WORK get screwed again.
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[AmyStrange]

21. Let them wear mask!!!

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stupid fucks.
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[people]

23. Article from the SF Chronicle about this

'Vaccinate the frontline': Stanford doctors protest administrator vaccines


https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Stanford-COVID-vaccine-residents-protest-15814131.php

[Mariana]

58. The fucking liars are pretending it was all a mistake.

"We take complete responsibility for the errors in the execution of our vaccine distribution plan. Our intent was to develop an ethical and equitable process for distribution of the vaccine...

BULL
SHIT

[rgbecker]

26. Trickle Down Health. How's that working out for you?

[Hortensis]

27. This is typical of SANTA BARBARA's elite attitudes. Stanford's administrators

have often been caught out in blatant corruption but it goes on. Santa Barbara's public schools are worse than those of working-class Ventura because the children of well-to-do parents attend private schools. Public schools are for service workers. And on and on.

There's this striking dissonance between the beauty of the wealthy city on the coast and this ugly underside of the culture they have such a conceit over.

[soldierant]

38. Since Stanford and Santa Barbara are roughly 300 miles apart by the shortest

route (Hwy 101), I don't see the connection.

[58Sunliner]

60. Maybe they fly in.

[Hortensis]

78. Sorry. Middle of the night brain fart conflation.

Deleted.

[malaise]

30. Leaders in way too many spheres spheres are corrupt entitled scumbags

That is all

[wnylib]

46. I used to compare them to

robber barons, but they are more like the manor lords and nobility of the Middle Ages versus the peasants and serfs.

[malaise]

47. Well put

They always have to be first

[rdking647]

31. im beginning to think the time to rise up is nearing

just like france in 1789 it might be time to force change.
start by seizing the property of the super wealthy. how many of the homeless could live on the estates of some of the super wealthy.
stop paying taxes
stop paying mortgages and rent
they have people convinced they are helpless against them. they're very mistaken.
the people have teh power to bring them to their knees quickly

[malaise]

48. It's coming

The neo-liberals will see the French connection

[kairos12]

34. One percenters will jump the line everywhere.

[AllaN01Bear]

36. what does the ceo class do except get more and more money? i could never figure that one out .

the lowest janitor should have gotten it first rather than these so and sos.

[tblue37]

37. Damn those administrators. I'm so mad I could chew nails & spit carpet tacks!

[keithbvadu2]

39. Nurses no testing - priorities

Nurses no testing - priorities

Link to tweet

Registered nurses gathered in Los Angeles to protest the fact that UCLA's athletic department conducted 1,248 tests in a single week while health-care workers at UCLA hospitals were denied testing.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-thousands-of-athletes-get-coronavirus-tests-nurses-wonder-what-about-us/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_tw_m&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1606499836

[soothsayer]

52. Jeezus

[moondust]

40. Oligarchy.

Isn't this a classic example of why the one percent and other "economic royalists" oppose universal health care and other examples of "equality"? When money is God and you have a lot of it you can just buy whatever you want without having to wait.

[AllaN01Bear]

42. should have gone to the persons who clean the e.r first rather than these yahoos.

[PatrickforO]

43. Well, what can we possibly expect when the traits required for

success as a CEO are the traits of a sociopath? According to Business Insider, around 20% of CEOs are sociopaths, while around 23% of felons incarcerated in penitenturies share those same traits.

Some capitalist utopia, eh?

[zentrum]

49. Raise taxes on the damn billionaires

……and Wall Street trades and create Medicare for all.

[OneBlueSky]

50. Good for them! . . . sometimes you wonder how people's heads . . .

got so far up their asses . . . not the demonstrators, of course . . . the decision-makers who determine who gets the vaccine and who doesn't . . . truly, it boggles the mind . . .

[Ferrets are Cool]

53. This is fucking bullshit.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

57. This is horrendous.

Inexcusable. The epitome of selfishness.

[BigDemVoter]

59. Welcome to healthcare in America.

And I can guaran-fucking-tee that this is as widespread as hell. . . Most facilities will be a lot more sneaky than Stanford and will most certainly tell spurious tales of how 'generous' they are with their employees they've managed to stiff throughout the pandemic vis-a-vis PPE and other things staff needed and didn't get.

[58Sunliner]

61. Sick and not surprising. The hospital administration is always looking to squeeze more out of them.

This time it's a life-saving vaccine. Ugly, greedy, bastards.

[sandensea]

62. Worse: the billionaires (plus Trump and his swamp creatures) get REGENERON

Supercharges the immune system, such that anyone - even fat, diabetic bastards like Cheeto and Crisco - can come out feeling even better than before.

The rest of us? Well, there's always prayer.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

63. Fuck the rich

Biden needs to tax them out of power. Take away that hoarded money . Then tell them fuck thier feelings.

[SunSeeker]

65. K & R & Retweeted!

[Cha]

66. Rt TY! WTF.. That makes NO GD Sense!

[essaynnc]

67. don't forget, the house and senate got theirs too..... eom

[Sympthsical]

68. And those people are not six feet apart

C'mon, guys . . .

Ditto their sentiments on the executives getting the vaccine. My partner is a hospital managerial type who is working from home. He's not getting it.

[Meowmee]

70. Low lifes

and they aren't the only ones jumping the line I am sure...

[ck4829]

71. K&R.

[onetexan]

72. elitism

[Rollo]

73. Well, Stanford is one of the most conservative schools in America... think Hoover Institution etc...

I get frequent mailings from Stanford Health Care trying to get me to switch my Medicare B/D coverage to them... nope... especially not after this fiasco...

[jaxexpat]

74. This would be a great time to introduce a little "tyranny of justice" or at least.......

a little socio-economic "tough love".

When they call me a socialist in order to demonize me and thus isolate me from my brethren then they have already lost.

.....on another note, it may well be the season to acknowledge that the biggest beneficiaries to American style health care are architectural firms and tech-supply companies. The building of monoliths to house the latest patented technology is affordable only by over-pricing care and under-compensating staff. Oh, and by maintaining a steady flow of illness.

That couldn't possibly be true. Could it? What is more profound: the "love thy neighbor" ethic or the law of supply and demand? Next thing you know there'll be "war for profit".

[BobTheSubgenius]

77. I thought this whole vaccination program got off to a great start, symbolically.

The first treatment went to an African-American woman, and I didn't even care if someone in the group that decides these things was being pandering and cynical. At least it was happening.

Part of my reaction was "Boy oh boy, is THIS going to piss some people off! Good!!! What can they do about it, but wait their turn?"

Nope. This is what some of them can do. FML

[ancianita]

79. The biggest risk takers and essential workers should never be anything but FIRST in this pandemic.

Millionaires and billionaires are among the intentional murderers of others.

[malthaussen]

80. Anyone who is surprised, raise their hand.

"Essential workers" are always the ones at the top. Funny how that works.

-- Mal

[Paladin]

81. K&R, big-time. (nt)

[Nitram]

84. Unbelievable! They have neither shame nor decency.

[Pacifist Patriot]

86. What the everloving fuck is this???

[Stuart G]

87. The word, "Stanford" has achieved a new meaning:.less than sh*t..apologies to s**t everywhere..

Stanford University may never recover from this incredible story.

[DBoon]

88. Looks like Stanford is backing down (at least a bit)

Latest updates from Ars Technica:

Update, 10:00pm EST: Stanford Medicine shared the following statement with Ars: "We take complete responsibility for the errors in the execution of our vaccine distribution plan. Our intent was to develop an ethical and equitable process for distribution of the vaccine. We apologize to our entire community, including our residents, fellows, and other frontline care providers, who have performed heroically during our pandemic response. We are immediately revising our plan to better sequence the distribution of the vaccine."

Update, 7:15pm EST: According to the Washington Post, Stanford has apologized and announced that it would re-prioritize vaccine distributions immediately in order to move more of its front-line staff into the first wave of vaccinations.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/stanford-hospital-erupts-in-protest-after-vaccine-plan-leaves-out-residents/

Protests work.