Source: Zero Hedge
As America’s hospital beds have again filled with sick COVID patients, nurses and other healthcare workers have been quitting at the fastest rate since the early days of the pandemic, when nurses in some NYC hospitals were using garbage bags instead of PPE.
Across the Internet, on subreddits and in Facebook groups, nurses have gathered to commiserate.
But it’s not just remote areas of Arkansas and Mississippi that are having problems. Local media in California have reported that across the Golden State, low staffing levels have reached a “crisis point”.
According to a story published by a newspaper in Bakersfield, in the past month, no fewer than four emergency room nurses have quit at one Eureka hospital.
And aside from the burnout and the pressure and the stress, nurses have also cited California’s mandatory vaccination rule as one reason they’re thinking about leaving the state. Traveling nurses have been turning down assignments in the Golden State at record rates because they don’t want to get vaccinated – and the mandate hasn’t even taken effect yet.
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Hooray for those nurses, and California deserves what it gets. There’s an increasing shortage of doctors, too, and psychiatrists are in great demand, because of the mental health sequelae of this Covid-19 panic-demic. I just turned 69 and have worked off and on for years as a locum tenens psychiatrist. I have kept my Georgia license, but I don’t need to work and refuse to work in an environment that requires vaccinations that may be more dangerous than the disease.
I believe overwork and stress render people more susceptible to all disease than the germs themselves, so those nurses will probably be healthier by quitting.
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I share a lot of the same feelings, Katherine. I still recall the 1990s when the managed care insurance companies predicted there would be no need for psychiatrists after 2000 – that there was no reason GPs couldn’t prescribe psychotropic drugs.
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Why on earth would a nurse refuse a vaccine when they can expose high risk people to covid? And why would a nurse refuse to work with covid patients? Do you see firemen turn away from a fire that’s too hot? Do you find cops who refuse to respond to calls that are too dangerous? Get to work nurses or turn in your license. This is ridiculous. And thank you nurses who have worked so hard with covid patients you deserve an award! So sick of phony nurses who just want the title but when you’re called to action you run away. Pathetic.
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The problem, dipshierus, is that none of the current Covid vaccines available stop people from becoming infected with Covid and transmitting it. The most recent evidence shows they can reduce the severity of individuals who are already infected. In the case of the Delta variant, current vaccines are about 47% effective in reducing the severity of illness. And given the large incidence of severe side effects (including death) from these experimental vaccines, I am supportive of nurses who decline to risk their health (and lives).
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