Protests At Hospitals Near You?

[Dill]

(08-10-2021, 08:59 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: I cannot understand hopsital workers not getting vaccinated.  

1.) The amount of people you come into close contact with, many of whom are sick, leaves you, probably more than almost anyone else, more susceptible to catching it.

2.) I would assume most of them have actually seen, or have heard firsthand some horror stories of those who have been hospitilized.

3.) I can't think of any other job where you'd be judged for not getting vaccinated more.  Appearances, peer pressure, and social standing might not matter to everyone but I think they certainly matter to a lot of people.  By not getting vaccinated, to the point of fighing with your employer, these people are exposing themselves to all sorts of judgement in the workplace.

Fwiw, I've heard people claim that because there are people in healthcare who aren't getting vaccinated that shows the vaccine isn't safe, or people having doubts is more justifed.  ("Hey, if the professionals don't trust it why should I?")  Except this isn't telling the whole story.  If you look at the vaccine rates for people in healthcare it almost follows education levels to a t.  Doctors are the highest, followed by high level nurses, then lower level nurses, then by people like admininstrative, custodians, security guards, etc.

I'll never really understand people who are that opposed to the vaccine.  I would assume most people have received them in their lives.  And for people to believe that are government would put out something unsafe, and that countries all around the world would do the same, is like the meme of crazy dude on Ancient Aliens levels of conspiracy.

My sister is a nurse at the hospital in Great Falls, MT. She doesn't know anyone personally on the staff who isn't vaccinated, but there are many who are not, even in the geriatric section where patients are most at risk. Some had protest signs out on 10th Ave South, 15 or so people. The administration wanted to require vaccinations for employment, but the state won't allow it, at present. 

As to the bolded--remember what Stewy said in the previous post. ALL the healthcare workers know the vaccines have not gone through the full approval process. Some think (says my sister) that the vaccine is not safe enough.  Also, it seems to be mostly nurses, not doctors. Monday evening, at a baseball game, I sat next to a physical therapist who also works at the hospital. He won't get the vaccine because he says it has not been sufficiently researched.

Personally, I don't think they are evaluating the choice very well, balancing the consequences of not taking it vs consequences of not taking it--for others as well as themselves.