Oso planning to go pro
We kinda knew that some of this was going to happen with warp speed. And probably would have happened regardless of who was president at the time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/health/vaccine-nursing-homes-infections.htmltldr: Nursing home with 90% of elderly vaccinated is infected by unvaccinated staff, sets off outbreak. What caught my attention was this line:Resistance to vaccines has been steep among nursing home staffs nationwide,What? I mean, of all the people, you're caring for the elderly who are ground zero for COVID deaths. Maybe they want to kill off their customers.
Do solyndra and the healthcare.gov company next.
My theory:Frontline workers have had a very challenging year, from Walgreens workers and dentists all the way up to actual healthcare professionals. In order to get over the mental hurdle of going to work every day during a pandemic, they needed to compartmentalize the risk to themselves in order to get to work every day no matter how bad it got. I think a surprising % of those people compartmentalized a little too hard and are now unwilling to consider the risk that the pandemic is still putting them, their loved ones, and their community in.I appreciate that so many people put on their proverbial hard-hats and physically went to work during this thing. Now it's our job to give them a little counseling to get them through the traumatic stress.
CNA licensing is easy to acquire. Pay is low. Can't force people to get vaccinated and nursing homes is already dangerously understaffed. If you require it quite a few will probably walk off the job. The way we treat our elderly and the way we treat those who care for them is shameful.
The ones that mystify me are the doctors and nurses who refuse.
I think there is a lot of truth in both of these theories.The other point - which Hards hints at it in his comment - is that many nursing home staff are not educated in the sense that most people think of when they hear 'healthcare professional.' Typically, they have little if any knowledge of biology, virology, epidemiology, etc. In that sense, although they do a critically important job that is worthy of respect (and higher pay), they probably don't have any more understanding of vaccine research and development than the average person on the street.I wish their real-world experience with the elderly made them more likely to get the vaccine...but I understand why it isn't a given.The ones that mystify me are the doctors and nurses who refuse.
Just got my 2nd Moderna shot. See you guys in 24 hours with a sob story. I'm pretty whiny when it comes to getting sick.
2nd pfizer on Tuesday. A little achy yesterday, but still able to work. Fine today.
Day 2 for me, brain fog, aches, and took a nap today. Surprised it didn't hit me harder.
Isn't that a normal day for you?
Wisconsinites voted for him over Russ Fengold...twice. Think about that.
I think that also speaks to Feingold and people who were getting tired of him drifting further and further left. I can’t believe they ran him again when Johnson got re-elected. Same way Evers won the other way, cause enough people were sick of Walker, not cause they were energized by Evers And Johnson isn’t a Russian pawn, he’s just a unnatural carnal knowledgeing moron. A business career riding the coattails of his wife’s family, literally from the minute he got out of school, I think any Republican with a functioning brain and a pulse beats Feingold in 2010, and indeed it was one who barely qualifies for those metrics. I mean he’s stupid enough to think he can go against McConnell.
Maybe not knowingly, anyway. But he has pushed Putin's agenda. He has claimed Putin has not interfered in our elections. His investigations involving Ukraine have greatly benefitted Russian disinformation. Russian linked spies have spoken to Johnson and his staff to push lies to the US public.But, as you say, he is too stoopid to know that he is being used as a Russian asset
I think that also speaks to Feingold and people who were getting tired of him drifting further and further left.