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Thanks I really appreciate it. In fact I just haven't seen it nor did it come up in any conversation (until now). I guess I still don't see what that has to d

Thanks I really appreciate it. In fact I just haven't seen it nor did it come up in any conversation (until now). I guess I still don't see what that has to do with covid, wouldn't it be prudent to increase staffing to alleviate the most common concerns (insufficient staffing, workload, and emotional toll)? Firing staff which has a high probability of possessing immunity would seem to aggravate the existing situation.

smt88 5y ago
> I guess I still don't see what that has to do with covid The hours are longer, the cases are more likely to result in death, and there are just more cases. Medical staff also get verbally abused by Covid deniers and anti-vaxxers. A friend of mine who works in the ER was physically attacked by a spouse because they refused to believe the Covid test. It was their opinion that such a sever illness could not be Covid. > wouldn't it be prudent to increase staffing to alleviate the most common concerns (insufficient staffing, workload, and emotional toll) Yes, absolutely! There were doctor and nurse shortages in the US long before Covid even started. They're hiring as many people as they can. There just simply aren't enough people to go around, especially in "less desirable" locations for people to move. > Firing staff which has a high probability of possessing immunity would seem to aggravate the existing situation. "Immunity" != "unable to spread Covid" They're not firing the staff because we know that they're disease vectors. They're firing the staff because they refuse to take a guaranteed, basic, zero-cost, easy, medically-indicated step to reduce their ability to spread disease. In general, medical providers should not believe conspiracy theories about important drugs that save people's lives. Also, the number of people being fired is extremely small[1]. > Houston Methodist Hospital, for example, required its 25,000 workers to get a vaccine by June 7. Before the mandate, about 15% of its employees were unvaccinated. By mid-June, that percentage had dropped to 3% and hit 2% by late July. A total of 153 workers were fired or resigned, while another 285 were granted medical or religious exemptions and 332 were allowed to defer it. > At Jewish Home Family in Rockleigh, New Jersey, only five of its 527 workers quit following its vaccine mandate. Two out of 250 workers left Westminster Village in Bloomington, Illinois, and even in deeply conservative rural Alabama, a state with one of the lowest vaccine uptake rates, Hanceville Nursing & Rehab Center lost only six of its 260 employees. > Delta Air Lines didn’t mandate a shot, but in August it did subject unvaccinated workers to a US$200 per month health insurance surcharge. Yet the airline said fewer than 2% of employees have quit over the policy. > And at Indiana University Health, the 125 workers who quit are out of 35,800 total employees, or 0.3%. 1. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-that-tough-talk-over-quitting-jobs-over-a-covid-vaccine-mandate-is-really-just-idle-threats-11632491048 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-that-tough-talk-over-q...
- peteradio 5y ago
  Great explanation, thanks.
moistly 5y ago
Having reviewed your comment history, one sees that you have been previously admonished for trolling. I believe your contributions in this thread are entirely dishonest. Good bye.
- peteradio 5y ago
  Lol.

smt88 5y ago

> I guess I still don't see what that has to do with covid The hours are longer, the cases are more likely to result in death, and there are just more cases. Medical staff also get verbally abused by Covid deniers and anti-vaxxers. A friend of mine who works in the ER was physically attacked by a spouse because they refused to believe the Covid test. It was their opinion that such a sever illness could not be Covid. > wouldn't it be prudent to increase staffing to alleviate the most common concerns (insufficient staffing, workload, and emotional toll) Yes, absolutely! There were doctor and nurse shortages in the US long before Covid even started. They're hiring as many people as they can. There just simply aren't enough people to go around, especially in "less desirable" locations for people to move. > Firing staff which has a high probability of possessing immunity would seem to aggravate the existing situation. "Immunity" != "unable to spread Covid" They're not firing the staff because we know that they're disease vectors. They're firing the staff because they refuse to take a guaranteed, basic, zero-cost, easy, medically-indicated step to reduce their ability to spread disease. In general, medical providers should not believe conspiracy theories about important drugs that save people's lives. Also, the number of people being fired is extremely small[1]. > Houston Methodist Hospital, for example, required its 25,000 workers to get a vaccine by June 7. Before the mandate, about 15% of its employees were unvaccinated. By mid-June, that percentage had dropped to 3% and hit 2% by late July. A total of 153 workers were fired or resigned, while another 285 were granted medical or religious exemptions and 332 were allowed to defer it. > At Jewish Home Family in Rockleigh, New Jersey, only five of its 527 workers quit following its vaccine mandate. Two out of 250 workers left Westminster Village in Bloomington, Illinois, and even in deeply conservative rural Alabama, a state with one of the lowest vaccine uptake rates, Hanceville Nursing & Rehab Center lost only six of its 260 employees. > Delta Air Lines didn’t mandate a shot, but in August it did subject unvaccinated workers to a US$200 per month health insurance surcharge. Yet the airline said fewer than 2% of employees have quit over the policy. > And at Indiana University Health, the 125 workers who quit are out of 35,800 total employees, or 0.3%. 1. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-that-tough-talk-over-quitting-jobs-over-a-covid-vaccine-mandate-is-really-just-idle-threats-11632491048 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-that-tough-talk-over-q...

peteradio 5y ago
Great explanation, thanks.

moistly 5y ago

Having reviewed your comment history, one sees that you have been previously admonished for trolling. I believe your contributions in this thread are entirely dishonest. Good bye.

peteradio 5y ago
Lol.