Covid Abuse!

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A man in Canada has punched a nurse in the face for giving his wife a Covid vaccine. 

Just wondering what sort of abuse has other nurses suffered from the public or even patients and it doesn't have to be just giving Covid vaccines. 

Man punches Nurse for giving his wife a vaccine!

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On 9/26/2021 at 1:32 AM, lMCRN said:

Seems like a click-bait story, why was he there if he did not want her to get vaccinated, seems unlikely that she would tell him if she knew he did not want her to get the vaccine? 

It sounds like he went back after the fact, and that it's not clear it was the pharmacy where his wife was vaccinated. Basically his wife got vaccinated and he went to a random pharmacy and punched a nurse. I hate to think about what he did to his wife.

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I looked up the original story on a Canadian newsite since the incident was supposed to have happened there. According to that article: "They say he accused the nurse of vaccinating his wife against her consent and repeatedly punched the nurse before leaving the store."  

Kinda changes the message here.  

https://canadanewsmedia.ca/quebec-man-punches-nurse-in-face-for-giving-wife-covid-19-vaccine-campbell-river-mirror/

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14 minutes ago, OrangeSlushie said:

I looked up the original story on a Canadian newsite since the incident was supposed to have happened there. According to that article: "They say he accused the nurse of vaccinating his wife against her consent and repeatedly punched the nurse before leaving the store."  

Kinda changes the message here.  

https://canadanewsmedia.ca/quebec-man-punches-nurse-in-face-for-giving-wife-covid-19-vaccine-campbell-river-mirror/

How does it change the message here?

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8 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

How does it change the message here?

The nurse, if the Canadian story is true, either gave the wrong medication or violated the patient's right to refuse. If I gave the wrong medication or violated a patient's rights, I'd feel like I deserved a punch, but that's just me holding myself to a high degree of accountability.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I condone violence. But if I had to choose between being punched or sued, I'd probably pick punched.  But I digress...

 

If we're just talking about being on the receiving end of violence as a nurse, then yes, it happens.  Sadly, it's frequently part of the job.  I don't condone that either, btw, but a dementia patient or an early-onset Alzheimer's patient don't always realize that you're there to help them. I've never been physically abused by family members though. 

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The nurse gave a vaccine without the patient's consent? Not impossible, but seems pretty unlikely.

I'd be interested in the nurse's version of the events. 

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1 hour ago, OrangeSlushie said:

"They say he accused the nurse of vaccinating his wife against her consent and repeatedly punched the nurse before leaving the store."   

That's bull. I mean 99.999% chance it's complete bull. I really doubt this woman was browsing the greeting card aisle when she was tackled by a nurse and given a covid immunization. Or given the wrong immunization or denied her right to refuse or anything else.

And while I'm at it, I hope that while the public is keeping an eye out for this guy, the police have a warrant for his arrest and have at least done something to look for him in obvious places...like his home. It isn't as if they don't know who he is. He belongs in the slammer.

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35 minutes ago, OrangeSlushie said:

The nurse, if the Canadian story is true, either gave the wrong medication or violated the patient's right to refuse.

The Canadian story doesn't report that the nurse did anything of the sort.  That story reports that the attacker said that's why he attacked her. 

Nothing is changed in the messaging here by the attackers reasoning. 

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8 hours ago, OrangeSlushie said:

The nurse, if the Canadian story is true, either gave the wrong medication or violated the patient's right to refuse.

 

This was at a public pharmacy. If you've ever gotten a vaccine in the outpatient setting you literally have to fill out a consent form or they won't administer it. Most of the time you even need to make an appointment. I can't see a situation where this woman had no clue what kind of vaccine she is getting. My guess is this lunatic has a rage problem and she may have said something like that in a last ditch effort to take the blame off herself. Regardless it is wrong. No one should have to feel unsafe at work the way we do as healthcare workers. 

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By the way, other sources state that the man was irate because his wife was given a vaccine without his authorization.

I am disappointed that a quick search doesn't produce any evidence that he has been located and arrested. What in the world. This happened like 10 days ago.

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41 minutes ago, JKL33 said:

I am disappointed that a quick search doesn't produce any evidence that he has been located and arrested. What in the world. This happened like 10 days ago.

22 hours ago, JKL33 said:

And while I'm at it, I hope that while the public is keeping an eye out for this guy, the police have a warrant for his arrest and have at least done something to look for him in obvious places...like his home. It isn't as if they don't know who he is. He belongs in the slammer.

I agree that if things happened as described in this article, this man ought to be charged and convicted. 
 

I don’t think the police knows his identity or address. I think the police only have a physical description of the alleged assailant, nothing else. Unless I’ve missed something else being reported in the media, I think that the man’s wife is only known to the police as ”my wife” as said by the assailant when he claimed that she’d been vaccinated at the pharmacy. The police don’t know if the perpetrator even has a wife, or if he does, his wife actually got vaccinated by the assaulted nurse or at that pharmacy. 
 

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/police-in-sherbrooke-que-searching-for-man-who-allegedly-punched-nurse-for-vaccinating-his-wife-1.5595631
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/22/canada-man-allegedly-punched-nurse-for-vaccinating-his-wife
 

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23 hours ago, OrangeSlushie said:

The nurse, if the Canadian story is true, either gave the wrong medication or violated the patient's right to refuse. If I gave the wrong medication or violated a patient's rights, I'd feel like I deserved a punch, but that's just me holding myself to a high degree of accountability.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I condone violence. But if I had to choose between being punched or sued, I'd probably pick punched.  But I digress...

No, that’s not you holding yourself to a high degree of accountability. That’s you suggesting that it’s acceptable to punch a healthcare professional in the face, and that they ”deserve” to be punched if they make a mistake. It’s not and they don’t. You are greenlighting violence against healthcare professionals. It doesn’t really help that you added that you’re not saying that you condone violence, because your previous words make it sound like you do. 

By the way, there is absolutely nothing in any of the news reports I’ve seen on this incidence, that suggests that the nurse in question ”violated a patient’s rights”. That’s speculation and a serious accusation based only on secondhand reporting of the utterings of what appears to be a mentally unbalanced individual. I think most of us agree that showing up at a stranger’s place of work and punch them repeatedly in the face and then flee the scene, doesn’t constitute ”normal” or socially accepted behavior. 

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On 9/26/2021 at 9:32 AM, lMCRN said:

Seems like a click-bait story, why was he there if he did not want her to get vaccinated, seems unlikely that she would tell him if she knew he did not want her to get the vaccine? 

We don’t really know enough to speculate about this.

I don’t think it’s even been established that the alleged assailant has a wife. Only that he said that he has a wife. It is possible that he doesn’t have a wife. A person who assaults a perfect stranger can also be capable of lying or of being delusional. 

If a hypothetical violence-prone husband has a wife, there are many ways other than her voluntarily telling him about getting vaccinated, that he could have found out. He could have threatened her or physically hurt her to get the truth. He could have followed her as she left the house. He could have installed a spy app on her phone that allows him to monitor her movements. Many abusers do that to keep track of and control the spouse or partner that they abuse. 
 

But this is all speculation. We simply don’t know one way or the other. 

 

The only thing I know is that physically assaulting healthcare workers should not be tolerated. 

 

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