This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.
With President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate set to take effect on Monday, healthcare systems around the country are suspending elective in-patient surgeries and refusing to accept ICU patients from other hospitals as they brace for potentially hundreds of firings of nurses and other critical staffers, potentially even doctors.
According to the NYT, the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo is planning to do all that and more, as it says it may soon fire about 400 employees who have chosen not to get the single job required by the edict (which was pushed through despite being blocked by a federal judge).
Similarly, officials at Northwell Health, the state’s largest healthcare provider, estimate that NWH might be forced to fire thousands of people who have refused to get vaccinated.
In an economy with more job openings than workers – 2.2MM more, to be exact – forcing workers to choose between employment and their health or religious compunctions simply isn’t a smart idea.
Without even a hint of self-awareness, the governor apparently agrees: “What is looming for Monday is completely avoidable, and there’s no excuses,” Ms. Hochul said, pleading for those who have not done so to get vaccinated,” Kathy Hochul said during a weekend press briefing.
But we digress.
The situation is less dire in NYC, but there will still be plenty of hospitals left with massive staffing holes after mass-firings.
The city’s largest private hospital network, New York-Presbyterian, has more than 200 employees who may face termination because they haven’t received at least one jab.
Of course, as we have pointed out in recent posts, healthcare workers are only a fraction of the workers who will be impacted by shortages across the economy. In California, nurse shortages have reached crisis levels in California, airlines are seeing flights frequently canceled due to worker shortages.
As of late September, 84% of NY’s 450,000 hospital workers and 83% of nursing home workers – which number around 45,400 – remained unvaccinated.
Despite being directly threatened by their superiors, most say they’re refusing the jab on religious or health grounds, or because they’re allergic to certain ingredients.
In an effort to scare workers into compliance, NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has threatened to find “foreign workers” to staff the Empire state’s hospitals and care homes (despite the fact that vaccination rates are much lower in most of the world outside the US).
She has also threatened to call in the National Guard or order a state of emergency in a plan unveiled over the weekend.
NY’s teachers are also facing a mandate to either get vaccinated or kiss their jobs goodbye. Roughly 10,000 public school workers, that’s compared to 75K teachers and tens of thousands of other employees from custodians to paraprofessionals.
Circling back to hospitals and care homes, institutions like Northwell are being relatively parsimonious with their exemptions for religious and health reasons, But some are getting through.
NY’s emergency order doesn’t stipulate how exactly hospitals and nursing homes should enforce it, and there’s a good chance that hospitals serving communities in greater need will be forced to make exceptions. Black and Hispanic New Yorkers have gotten the jab in far lower numbers than white new Yorkers. The NYT points out in its story that some hospitals in the Bronx see unvaccinated rates among doctors and nurses reaching into double-digit territory.
At St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, about 12 percent of the nearly 3,000 employees had not been vaccinated as of midday on Friday, the chief medical officer, Eric Appelbaum, said in an interview. The group includes roughly 3 important doctors and a larger number of nurses, Dr. Appelbaum said. Most of the rest worked in nonmedical roles, including housekeeping and food services.
Anecdotally hospitals are reporting a surge in vaccinations among hospital workers who haven’t yet been vaccinated. But who knows what to believe. All we know is that we wouldn’t want to be having an elective surgery or delivering a baby in NY right now.
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The people, the powers, behind the push for mandatory vaccination of all of the people without exceptions are serious about it.
To them, there is nothing serious enough or important enough to prevent it, certainly not the healthcare system or the health of the people.
But only a handful of people will see this, the rest of the people considering them mentally ill or fanatics or something worse.
So the vaccine agenda will succeed, you can expect it to condition the people to accept a more medically radical vaccine in the near future with more severe laws to enforce taking it.
There is no way to prevent it, but possibly -and only possibly- a small chance to hide from it if you are willing to make the sacrifices it will require to do it.
Anyone that has NOT been brainwashed and yet smart enough to do the research KNOWS the vaccine is a scam and something very sinister is going to happen from taking it. might be instant and might be 5 years, but it is coming.
The Hospitals and Beelzebub Biden cut off their noses despite their faces and they will bleed to death.
The best and brightest are leaving, where the quacks will run the COVID ICU wards putting everyone to death.
HC workers have a choice–die from the TOXIC VAX now or up to 3-4 years from now or lose a job and work elsewhere in a small clinic that does not require it.
Those who are leaving also have a conscience after their administrations have generated NAZI death camps and criminal extermination of humanity.
The Hospitals and Beelzebub Biden cut off their noses despite their faces and they will bleed to death.
The best and brightest are leaving, where the quacks will run the COVID ICU wards putting everyone to death.
HC workers have a choice–die from the TOXIC VAX now or up to 3-4 years from now or lose a job and work elsewhere in a small clinic that does not require it.
Those who are leaving also have a conscience after their administrations have generated NAZI death camps and criminal extermination of humanity.
On the flip side, I for one will be scaling way back in my heath insurance plan…no need to pay for something I cannot use…
If we would all see the truth of this and break the back of the one world globalist by speaking with our pockets….they would soon get the point…
Yet as a Christian man who fears God and eschews evil, I know these days were ordained long ago…and they must come to pass for the world must have a bout of chaos before the return of Christ to claim His bride…and once the bride is removed from the earth, then all bets are off and watch the real madness ensue…men will be begging for death and it will not find them.
Praise be to the Lord of glory for His way are true and just.
Buckle up, the ride is underway and it will only grow worse from here on out.
That’s smart. I try to get my wife to go to one of the better Part C Medicare plans. We pay a fortune for a “supplement” for traditional Medicare. Her Dr’s office treats her as if she’s a part C anyway. Any extra is just gravy for the insurance company executives and their perks.
And, yes, weaponize the wallet.
If the government makes a law that requires the jab, this could be called the “Covid law”. In Latin, that would be “LEX COVID”. If you add up the Roman numerals in “LEX COVID”, the total is 666.
There are many very strange people on the internet. Andrea Iravani is one of them.
This hoax of a pandemic is the most brilliant strategy the one world nuts have introduced to control and eliminate over a short period of time the number of human eaters. How eloquent to have people come to you and line up to have poison put into their bodies. The field general’s, Biden and other world leaders, are doing their part with control mandates.
It appears that the sheeple have had their backs broken so they can bow down to the elite. The world’s economies are getting bad. OIl/gas is becoming higher priced and limited supply, the food supply systems are breaking down, prices and sky rocketing with supplies being limited.Folks are losing their jobs because they refuse the poison jabs.
A new variant that is 30-50%fatal is lurking in all our staes and the world.
So tell me “and you don’t believe we are on the eve of destruction”