I am trying to feel out if anyone else has declined the Covid vaccine and feeling backlash or tension with other co-workers? I have never heard so much discussion regarding nurse receiving or declining a vaccine in the 12 years I've been a nurse. Not sure why it should even matter but, I am getting a lot of pressure about it. I do not see why I am "crazy " if I made the decision against receiving the vaccine. I also do not understand co-workers pushing the vaccine on me and others, or insisting we are out of our minds. This is coming from management level as well as staff nurses. I am just appalled at the treatment and many of us who have declined the vaccine have kept to ourselves. For me, personally, I made the choice not to get it and I was done at that. It's been a month into our hospital vaccines and people will not just shut up about it.
Just wondering if the vaccines were so ineffective, why is this occurring?
Why did Trump and Melania sneak the vaccine without telling anyone?
I also bet Hawley and Cruz and all the republicans have taken the same vaccine they have decried which resulted in republicans being the major group to question the efficacy of the vaccines.
I am no fan of DT which is why it pains me when I have to point out such a flaw in Critical Thinking. DT and his wife were vaccinated before leaving the White House for the very last time. The fact that they choose to have it done, quietly without a media circus ( a circus that would have only served to heighten tensions in Washington and the rest of the United States. No matter what he did at that point he would have been in the wrong and he choose the better part of valor by choosing not to further fan the flames of discord. DT did many terrible things but this is one thing he did right. He never once stated he didn't think Vacccines were effective or that they were dangerous. He also never said he wouldn't be vaccinatted. Just as he never said people should drink Lysol, bleach or any other chemical to prevent or treat Covid 19. I have watched the entire tape and I know what he said. Still he is a racist mysoginist. I can actually look at a issue from several sides. There are so many things Trump actually did do to villify him for.
I have such a hard time when I hear people who are supposed to use science in their teaching and decision making don't know the difference between an airborne pathogen and a droplet borne pathogen.?♀️
I mean I teach this stuff to kindergarteners who get it on the first lesson.
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A good and effective president makes it a point to publicly model expected behavior. In the midst of a public health crisis, leaders don't get their vaccination in secret while publicly behaving and speaking recklessly. The only "right" thing about that is that he accepted vaccination. That he did it secretly is just typical Trump dishonesty and malfeasance.
An infected person is a spreader of the disease, regardless of the severity of their illness. If we were in the midst of a measles pandemic I guarantee we would be wearing masks. How have you not learned, at this late date, that asymptomatic transmission is not a rare phenomenon?
Your cavalier remark about coughing up a lung at the grocery store is tone deaf when grocery workers have their health adversely impacted, often without health insurance or sick pay benefits. This is not difficult to understand. There would be fewer than 500,000 American deaths if the messaging about masks had not been sabotaged from the start and from the very top of the chain of command. Put your polilitics aside and accept reality.
Why do health professionals wear masks during procedures or surgery? Did you study this in school?
They wear masks because of their close proximity to a patient during a surgery or dental cleaning, etc. When's the last time you were at the local grocery and asked someone to open their mouth so you can assess their back molars? Doesn't happen. There is a time and a place.
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27 minutes ago, Jack Peace said:
They wear masks because of their close proximity to a patient during a surgery or dental cleaning, etc. When's the last time you were at the local grocery and asked someone to open their mouth so you can assess their back molars? Doesn't happen. There is a time and a place.
You almost got the answer correct. They wear the mask to protect the patient from their respiratory droplets. You know, the things that contaminate the air immediately surrounding you when you exhale. When was the last time you were at the local grocery store and breathed the air after another person had walked near you? Is there a time and place for breathing?
It feels like you are trying really hard to make sense of anti-masking sentiment that just doesn't make good sense. There simply is no good science based argument against masking during a pandemic.
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On 3/4/2021 at 1:51 PM, love2banurse89 said:
Has there ever been another illness where people with absolutely no symptoms are forced to be tested multiple times? And then forced to isolate for 10 days regardless of symptoms or lack of symptoms? Has there ever been another illness where just being in contact with a person who has it requires a 14 day quarantine?
We've had several cases recently of people who went through 2 weeks in managed isolation, 2-3 negative tests. Discharged to the community and within a few days found to be postive and symptomatic with covid
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And...a former coworker of mine (a relatively healthy nurse in her late 30s) just died yesterday from a Covid complication (PE). Her husband (fit man in his 40s) died of Covid late last fall. Their 4 children are now orphans.
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4 minutes ago, Daisy Joyce said:
That’s correct. In a care setting. Not everyday life.
If you are a health professional, not isolating an active case of measles in every day life, you are irresponsible, breaking public health guidance and putting the public at risk.
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10 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:
A good and effective president makes it a point to publicly model expected behavior. In the midst of a public health crisis, leaders don't get their vaccination in secret while publicly behaving and speaking recklessly. The only "right" thing about that is that he accepted vaccination. That he did it secretly is just typical Trump dishonesty and malfeasance.
It was on the news so not a secret and he did publically encourage everyone to get vaccinated. But I suppose you would have wanted to fire up his base by putting him in front of the public again. We have already established that he was not a good leader, So why people keep expecting him to act like a good leader is just magical thinking on the part of those who hate him.
While there are many people I dislike, I don't hate anyone life is too short to expend energy on hate.
That's the last I am going to say about this so flame away!
See, I’ve taken flu and measles vaccines in the last several years, but never wore a mask afterwards.
I for one, have enjoyed not having a cold, flu, sinusitis, otitis, or bronchitis this last year. It has been such a welcome relief, that I plan to continue masking during flu and cold season in the future. I dislike wearing a mask, but I dislike the URIs even more.
If youare a health professional, not isolating an active case of measles in every day life, you are irresponsible, breaking public health guidance and putting the public at risk.
That statement is also correct.
My original assertion was that when I received the measles vaccine a few years ago, I didn’t have to wear a mask afterwards to do everyday tasks and everyday errands.
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I am no fan of DT which is why it pains me when I have to point out such a flaw in Critical Thinking. DT and his wife were vaccinated before leaving the White House for the very last time. The fact that they choose to have it done, quietly without a media circus ( a circus that would have only served to heighten tensions in Washington and the rest of the United States. No matter what he did at that point he would have been in the wrong and he choose the better part of valor by choosing not to further fan the flames of discord. DT did many terrible things but this is one thing he did right. He never once stated he didn't think Vacccines were effective or that they were dangerous. He also never said he wouldn't be vaccinatted. Just as he never said people should drink Lysol, bleach or any other chemical to prevent or treat Covid 19. I have watched the entire tape and I know what he said. Still he is a racist mysoginist. I can actually look at a issue from several sides. There are so many things Trump actually did do to villify him for.
I have such a hard time when I hear people who are supposed to use science in their teaching and decision making don't know the difference between an airborne pathogen and a droplet borne pathogen.?♀️
I mean I teach this stuff to kindergarteners who get it on the first lesson.
Hppy