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.^^^