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In reply to the discussion: It seems to me that the unvaccinated healthcare workers [View all]forthemiddle
(1,460 posts)18. That is happening all over
Especially nursing homes that rely on Nurses Aides to run the facilities.
Unfortunately, in this Country, Nursing homes are staffed with lower income, often minority men and women that are paid crap wages. Those also happen to be the most likely to be vaccine hesitant.
I have a lot of contacts with these facilities through my job, and I can tell you it is happening as we speak. As more and more places are mandating the vaccines, the more workers are realizing that there crappy wages can be made somewhere else. Somewhere that the vaccines arent mandated. Hell, in many small towns (which rely on Medicaid to finance the facilities), many of these workers can make as much, or more at a convenience store.
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I heard today that the Pfizer vaccine is supposed to get regular approval tomorrow.
lark
Aug 2021
#40
It's really disturbing. Doctors can't convince them. These nurses think they know more than the
mucifer
Aug 2021
#6
I just posted about one of them, who whines that we are trying to kill them. She is ICU,
niyad
Aug 2021
#7
I honestly do not know how all of you in healthcare do it. Even before this pandemic,
niyad
Aug 2021
#31
I have not seen, nor will I. But I have certainly heard about them. My comment is, "how do
niyad
Aug 2021
#37
Not just to protect themselves, they have a duty to their patients to NOT spread
Wingus Dingus
Aug 2021
#25
Nah. Tattoo NV on their forehead and they work only with not vaccinated patients.
3Hotdogs
Aug 2021
#17
I'm on sabbatical--- Xray/CT tech with minor immunocompromise. I'm vaxxed but wary
lambchopp59
Aug 2021
#32
Sure, but do we really want them sequestered with a group of like minded idiots
littlemissmartypants
Aug 2021
#35