I'm a travel nurse, and I'm in Maine right now. I'm at the last "big" hospital before the western wilderness, so we get a lot of the ski and winter sports trauma (broken legs, ect). We do have a sister hospital about 40 minutes away, but they don't do trauma. However, they deliver babies.

All of their nurses walked. Every single on of them. So now we are doing twice as many c sections because that hospital closed. And the governor extended the vaccine mandate to October, but when that comes, the operating room here will be the charge nurse and me (done in Nov). Two hospitals that help actual poor, underprivileged, and undeserved communities won't be able to offer surgical and birthing services because of this mandate.

But they'll tell you the hospitals are overwhelmed due to covid. They're not, they're overwhelmed because they've fired all their competent staff. They're overwhelmed because the nursing homes have no more staff, so those old folks are taking up hospital beds because there is nowhere else to go.

THEY are manufacturing a crisis.