smallfil the Troll, Your misinformation / disinformation continues non-stop. What is he afraid of about Covid or Vaccines ? Then again, he'll be the first to say he's not anti-vaccine but anti-mandate. I personally know about +30 Doctors and about +20 Nurses. Everyone of them are fully vaccinated including my girlfriend that's an ICU nurse (Canada), sister that's an head ER nurse (Illinois), my brother that is a Doctor (South Dakota), and three close military friends that are Doctors in Kentucky...all fully vaccinated prior to any mandates. They are proudly doing their part to help end this Pandemic while serving their country or community. Everyone of them would be offended by your constant misinformation trolling. Most nurses are vaccinated – so why do people think health workers are vaccine hesitant? Many registered nurses see vaccination as their ‘moral responsibility’ and want everyone else to get theirs too Charlaine was skeptical of the vaccines at first. She wondered how they were created so quickly, and she was wary of the long history of medical experimentation and disregard for Black people like her in the United States. But then Charlaine, a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit, thought about the disparate health outcomes for people of color in the pandemic – and knew that she might not receive the same level of care as others if she got sick. She did her research and determined that the mRNA vaccines, which became available to health workers late last year, are safe and effective. Charlaine, who asked to use only her first name to protect her job, got her vaccine in January. “Here we have this virus that is killing, maiming, debilitating people, and I knew that if I was in a position of being sick, I would be treated differently and probably not survive. So that was one layer of protection that I wanted to give myself,” she said. A year and a half into the pandemic, healthcare workers are exhausted, burned out and worried that the worst is far from over. Amid that stress, much attention has been focused on nurses who haven’t received the vaccine, even though the majority of these essential workers have been inoculated. That has left many nurses feeling betrayed, both by their unvaccinated patients and by public perception. “It’s a major source of frustration for nurses right now that people aren’t getting vaccinated,”said Anna Maria Valdez, a professor of nursing at Sonoma State University. “It’s like we have a big fire, but we also have big hoses to put it out – but people aren’t using them; they’re standing there, watching the fire burn.” But Laura Denstman, a nurse in Maryland, also worries that the amplification of fringe views makes it seem like health workers don’t trust the vaccines – which is far from the truth, she said. “One report of a nurse refusing to be vaccinated and all of a sudden it’s ‘a majority’ of nurses,” she said. “And sure, that scares the public.” Charlaine wishes more news stories would focus on the millions of health workers who have been vaccinated and have “saved lives by not infecting others,” she said. It can be startling to read reports of disparate vaccination rates among health workers. In the south or the borough of Staten Island in New York City, for example, there are pockets of health workers who are strongly opposed to vaccination. Vaccine hesitancy tends to be more common among the staff of long-term care facilities, where only 60% of staff is vaccinated. A CDC report in July found the lowest vaccination rate of health workers was among aides, including certified nursing assistants, nurse aides and medication aides and assistants, at 45.6% – but that figure was as of March, and it’s likely that rate has risen since. (Nursing aides or assistants usually undergo a four- to 12-week training course, while registered nurses receive two- or four-year degrees and must pass a licensing test.) In contrast, 88% of nurses and 96% of physicians in the US have already gotten vaccinated or plan to do so, according to surveys by the American Nurses Association and the American Medical Association. Those with hesitations often said they were waiting for full approval from the Food and Drug Administration, or they weren’t sure about side-effects during pregnancy and breastfeeding, Valdez said. Recently, health and regulatory agencies have helped raise public confidence. The FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on 23 August, with plans to address the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson applications next. On 11 August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged pregnant and breastfeeding people to get vaccinated, joining leading health associations like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which have long recommended the vaccines. And more workplaces, particularly health systems, are mandating vaccines. The strictest mandates require vaccinations unless there are documented medical reasons, while others require frequent testing if employees forgo vaccination. Many hospital systems were waiting for full FDA approval before mandating vaccines, which about 1,500 have now done. In August, the Biden administration announced that care facilities would no longer receive Medicare and Medicaid payments if the staff is unvaccinated. “I think the numbers will only go up even more, across the whole healthcare spectrum,” Grant said, including nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, cleaning staff, food service workers, lab workers and others. The mandates may push those who oppose the vaccines out of the healthcare field entirely, a field where there is already a shortage of qualified, experienced workers. Amanda, a certified medical assistant in Delaware, works in an urgent care facility where she regularly sees Covid-positive patients. A blood test earlier this year revealed she already had antibodies to the virus, but she doesn’t recall having any symptoms. Now, Amanda is battling a second case of Covid. Although she has heard the vaccines don’t contain the virus itself, she believes her first dose gave her Covid-19, she wrote over Facebook Messenger because she was too sick to talk on the phone. She is not willing to get the second dose, even though her employer has mandated it, and even though she loves the work. “Most medical facilities will want their employees vaccinated, so [it] looks like I’ll be working at Walmart again,” she said. Not all health workers are based in a hospital or care for seriously ill Covid patients, which may lead them to believe the pandemic is less serious than it is. “They haven’t really seen first-hand what we’re dealing with,” Denstman said. “The healthcare workers outside the hospital speaking against vaccine mandates are kind of misleading and scaring people.” Denstman says that getting vaccinated is never a personal choice when it comes to taking care of others’ lives. “I look at it as a moral responsibility,” she said. “Do I care about my neighbors? My family? All the children? The elderly? It’s just the right thing to do.” “I work with an immunocompromised patient population. I have to protect them,” Charlaine said. “It’s somebody’s baby – come on now.” She also encourages everyone to wear masks and take other critical measures for preventing the spread of Covid-19, rather than relying on a single layer of protection with the vaccines. As the pandemic continues, these frustrations are taking a toll on US nurses. Beyond the relentless workload, caring for people who are dying takes a huge emotional toll. And “knowing that there are vaccines out there that can help prevent this” can make the work even more difficult, said Ernest Grant, president of the American Nurses Association. But health workers’ impact extends beyond their direct care – they’re also trusted messengers in their communities when it comes to offering information on how best to combat the pandemic. So for nurses like Denstman and Charlaine, their job doesn’t end in the medical facility. “If the perception is that nurses don’t trust the vaccine, then the general public is going to be more inclined to not trust the vaccine,” Valdez said. “And that’s really problematic, because that’s not even accurate.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/09/us-nurses-vaccinated-vaccine-hesitant ---------- For the record, in the United States, about +52% military soldiers were fully vaccinated prior to the government mandates. Now after the mandates started...about +72% military soldiers are now fully vaccinated with another +15% schedule to be vaccinated...military soldiers also includes pilots. Just in case you're still curious, as of August 2021, about +44% of our Veterans are fully vaccinated. https://www.va.gov/eastern-oklahoma...most-44-of-our-veterans-are-fully-vaccinated/ smallfil, you're a minority of individuals that want this Pandemic to continue taking lives. Simply, you're a pathetic human being that talks a lot of shit online. wrbtrader
Right-Wing Activist Who Said He Was "Vaccinated in Christ" Dies of COVID https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...id-he-was-vaccinated-in-christ-dies-of-covid/
At least we have saved our new amigo @Bret_Salyer from David Crowe's viruses-don't-cause-transmissible-disease conspiracy craziness. See? There is good work done in these threads. Keep it up lads, Bret is another saved from this plague of misinformation.
Of course Merck has stated this directly, their patent ran out a long time ago. Merck has a new drug they want to profit off of for seven years without competition. What is your vested interest?
I have an idea for a new motor powered by the unnecessary assumption of conspiracy when other explanations are more probable energy, which seems perhaps infinite.
Well, I could have told you that. Some people say what they say because they hide behind a fake name, and some don't. There are records that exist of the CDC website this year saying the virus had not been isolated. There was also a Canadian mandate lawsuit that was thrown out because Pfizer would not produce the entire genome sequence of SARS-COV2. No doubt with this much money involved, the holes in the information on the internet will at some point be filled. What's odd about one of the genome sequences in the Reuters article is it's dated April 2019. Impressive the scientists had that much foresight. I never said COVID doesn't exist. I said there is no reason to inject an experimental substance into your body with no long term data, and destroy your natural immune system for a disease that is no more lethal that influenza or pneumonia. There are diseases much more lethal and prevalent on this planet such as TB, Ebola, etc. What is your vested interest in these new drugs? I noticed you called me a fool, but who do you think you are fooling?
The love of money and power is no conspiracy, and neither is the early introduction of an experimental gene therapy labeled as a 'vaccine', so that it can be mandated upon the world to profit off the fear of the masses with zero liability.
Whenever a poster on the hard of thinking team is removed as Jem and WeTodd have been, the vacuum is soon filled, by another vacuum. I was hoping the new guy would be less basic.