The NYT and similar outlets are reporting severe nursing shortages due to the "tremendous" amount of covid patients. The story on the ground is quite different.
Nurses are quitting because they don't want the jab. Many are walking out in solidarity. Civil rights attorneys are telling them they have no grounds for suing. There is a class action suit in progress, but it doesn't help those working in the Catholic health system. One attorney said, "If they tell everyone to dye their hair pink and you refuse, there's nothing you can do." This all sounds so unreal but it's direct from the mouths of those I know.
Meanwhile, a retired nurses - friend age 70, my sister age almost 80 - say their phones are ringing off the hook with call from recruiting agencies and hospitals offering eye-popping salaries. Filipino and Haitian friends report that relatives overseas are being recruited aggressively. No English? No problem.
A sign of things to come.
The goal of the law suits are not complete victory but to inflict pain from multiple directions that overwhelms those that make the mandates.
So now you have two pressure points. One the hospitals and medical facilities do not have enough personnel to function to make more money, and then they must spend resources fighting laws suit.
What these civil rights attorneys fail to understand it is not about winning or losing but about pushing back.
Even if 99 out of 100 law suits end up in defeat that still will cripple the health system that mandates these vaccines as they fight the law suits.
A lot of these health systems have investors and board members that want max profit. You can't make a profit if your business can't function (lacks nurses) and must use resources fighting law suits even if you end up winning the vast majority.
YES! This.^^^
Those "eye popping salaries" won't be sustained, but the consequences of being jabbed with poison will last a lifetime. (However long that may be.)
No thanks. I honestly don't believe this tyranny can last more than 6 months if we don't capitulate. No doubt it will be tough in the short term for many of us.
All the more so for those attempting to appease the system.
Travel nursing gigs are paying up to $250/hr and then redeploying those same nurses back to their home hospital. Money is being thrown around in unimaginable ways right now for nurses.
Surgical and NICU are $400
Could more Freelance medicine be in our future? I sure wouldn’t mind. Gotta get that godverment out the system
Teaching shortages too! The best and brightest will be leaving, rather than deal with the mandates. NYS will be left with the crazy SJWs and "Wokes."
https://cbs6albany.com/news/back-to-school/teacher-shortages-impacting-capital-region-schools
EVERYONE REMEMBER THIS SHIT WHEN YOUR LIBERAL FRIENDS TELL YOU HOSPITALS ARE AT FULL CAPACITY. WE DO NOT HAVE A CAPACITY PROBLEM. WE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF NURSES AND DOCTORS. WE HAVE HAD 2 FUCKING YEARS TO ADD CAPACITY, WHICH MOST OF THE ADDED CAPACITY GOT SHUT DOWN FOR NOT SEEING ANY PATIENTS. WERE THEY TOO STUPID TO NOT PLAN FOR THE FAILURE OF A RUSHED VACCINE?? THEY PUT ALL THEIR EGGS IN THE VAX BASKET?
A lot of nurses have been injured or killed from the jab too.
I just finished watching the video of the latest meeting of the NYSDOH Health Planning Council meeting, the body that deals with codes & regulations. There are big problems on the horizon (mentioned by someone from W. NY) with long term care facilities. A survey of unvaxxed LTC workers indicated that half will refuse the jabs. There's also a problem with a large number of Home Health Aides, who will be refusing. Things may get interesting in the future, with the Chair suggesting a possible modification of the vaxx mandate in certain health sectors and/or regions.
If you're interested in watching the chicken game unfold, the archives of the Planning Council meetings are located at:
https://totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VIEW&id=nysdoh
Thanks. Sharing with nursing friends
Its the treatment of staff putting hospitals in trouble but I dont believe media reports.
Remember NYC needed covid units so Trump gave them medical ships and they refused to use them because Trump made them available.
Other reports come out that there are no covid beds available. Duh, they only set up for 3. When said ICU is filled, Duh again people still had heart attacks without covid symptoms.
The patient care and power in the hospitals are the nurses. They can even stop doctors who dont treat patients according to their needs.
I wonder if they mandate foreign nurses to take the shot.
Good question