Please read this and tell me what YOU think of this person’s hypothesis:
Maine healthcare facilities losing workers as state imposes vaccine mandate
(Natural News) Maine recently issued an order for healthcare workers in the state: Get a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine or lose your job. The vaccine mandate has increased worries among behavioral health agencies and paramedics as staffing shortages continue.
Healthcare workers, as defined in the mandate, includes any individual who is employed by a hospital, multilevel healthcare facility, home health agency, nursing facility, residential care facility and intellectual disabilities licensed by the State of Maine.
Surge of new COVID cases compounds staffing shortage woes
Maine Gov. Janet Mills said that her mandate to require immunizations by Oct. 1 across the state meant to guard against staffing shortages and ensure patient safety. (Related: Thousands of health and nursing home workers face unemployment amid vaccine mandates at the workplace.)
But in healthcare industry that competes with others in offering wages, the risks of having a shortage of workers are higher as many contemplate complying or quitting.
The stakes are also rising as new COVID-19 cases surged in Maine and the rest of the U.S. because of the delta variant. The governor’s mandate for healthcare workers was one of the strongest, with no apparent alternative. The Biden administration also recently said that nursing homes will lose critical federal funding if they do not require workers to get vaccinated.
It remains unclear how many will leave the workforce due to the mandate, and opposition has been vocal. Healthcare workers and politicians that opposed the mandate have rallied in Portland, Bangor and Augusta.
OHI Maine, which is based in Bangor, had 82 job openings across 380 positions. The agency is providing support and direct care services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism had to close four of its group homes because it could not fill the vacancies. Some staff members are also almost living in the homes to care for their charges with complex needs.
Maine has one of the highest vaccination rates in the U.S., and most of its healthcare professionals have been vaccinated. Over 80 percent of hospital workers in the state were fully vaccinated as of July 31. The rates in nursing homes and intermediate care facilities were at 73 and 68 percent, respectively.
Maine Health, the state’s biggest healthcare provider based in Portland, has seen no turnover yet due to the vaccine. At Northern Light Health in Brewer, a spokesperson said a number of employees have tendered their resignations as they chose not to be vaccinated.
“We’re trying to provide as much support and education and information to respond to questions that employees might have to minimize any folks who feel that they need to leave healthcare as a profession,” said Paul Bolin, senior vice president and chief human resources officer at Northern Light Health.
Healthcare workers oppose mandate
Healthcare workers have their own reasons for refusing vaccination. Elizabeth Mink, a nursing assistant from Warren, said that she felt the vaccines have been developed too quickly.
Brianna Jipson, a Bangor-area nurse who works at a hospital near Augusta, said that she would rather get fired than vaccinated. She added that a lot of them are angry at the vaccine mandate. (Related: Healthcare workers fight back against dangerous flu vaccine mandates.)
Another healthcare worker stated: “I’m not anti-vax per se but we all should have a choice. We live in America and we have a right to our freedom, and we shouldn’t be forced to get anything that we don’t feel comfortable doing.”
Protest organizer Emily Nixon, who led a group of about 300 outside Maine Medical Center in Portland said to a crowd: “We are not anti-anything. We support the right to vaccinate. We support the right to choose.”
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OK. Now, who is going to sue the FDA for the Phizer approval. Let’s see the testing and success rate compared to the death and injury rate? Let’s get all the data not just the washed data.
Why is Trump in bed with Big Pharma? He got booed on Alabama when he mentioned the vaccine. We hate the vaccine. What is wrong with him on this issue and all the CFR cabinet members and the bulls_t Supreme Court picks?
Here are some references from scripture regarding how king after king did well except when it came to getting rid of the high places. Swamps are low places. Our real problems are in the high places: big business, big education, big medical etc.
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
2 Kings 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2 Kings 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
This was Trumps 1st four years.
Many Thanks for these verses! I will enjoy reading them to get the full story. God has an interest in everything, so I am sure we will see a pivot in direction here and there, we are seeing this now. It’s in the details. Stay safe! God Bless!
Willyvictor, those scriptures were very timely. I’m gonna copy them for my journal today. I have thought the same things; I am very pro life (volunteered in a pregnancy outreach for years and now active in ministries to provide ultrasounds to women) and even though I felt Trump was pro-life on issues, he didn’t push enough on it. He could have brought more attention to the evils of Planned Parenthood and maybe even to the point of writing some EO’s against some things. We have to be BOLD. God expects us to BE BOLD. The other side is bold and we just cower to them on so many things. Thanks for that share…we need to be thinking more about spiritual things and what God wants to see and not be afraid to do and say those things.
I believe the VACCINEs Trump received were Ivermectin and possibly Hydroghloroquin. Those two items are qualified as VACCINES.
It is not a good sign to me that MAINE is moving forward aggressively by pretending that a MANDATE IS A LAW. Isn’t this unlawful? Maybe the current administration is using MAINE as his test State. The citizens of Maine must rise up against this! Protest first? Hire a pro bono activist lawyer for all of you? Horrible news. I am Very unhappy to hear abou this. We all need to pay close attention to this development…it can come to our state today!
Maine’s governor Janet Mills is a Democrat. Need I say more?
Dear Radio Patriot Goddess,
What is our next move? I am not witnessing much Patience in what appears to be a very long wait for our HERO to fly in to save us! The past week has been an overload. With Biden losing more of his grip, I was hopeful that something on that front would change. He is now speaking again, must have received a new hearing aid….or a new voice.
I guess we are at a wait and see, while contacting as many congress members as we can. I get nothing back from my Georgia people, except Margery Taylor Greene! She never stops!
I notice that a Fox News newscaster is after Jill Biden and the natives are very restless over that! In Georgia that scene is called Elder Abuse… if I was the wife in that situation, I would already be in solitary confinement Under the Jail. I think Jill may be in for some punishing press!
Take good care, love all the articles you post! You must never sleep!
One of your many FANS!
Thank you Gaylea! We are the HEROES who will recapture our country from the communists. Trump is here to light the way, encourage and fight with us. We are winning. Never forget. Cling to that.
https://legacy-systems.biz/longview2500/public_links/public/medical/dr_zelenko_near_death_statement/covid_vaccine_is_genocide.php here is an in-depth interview with Zelenko.. on what happened.. it was not TRUMP as he said it was the others… great interview. Still listening to it ..
then the STEW PETERS SHOW has this lady on it .. and wow .. https://rumble.com/vll4b9-fda-approval-illegal-doctor-reveals-pfizer-insert-proves-criminal-regulatio.html must listen to as well… I have heard alot of them are walking out because of this..
https://rumble.com/vllfqg-vaccine-passports-will-cause-the-economic-collapse-of-america.html Vaccine Passports Will Cause the Economic Collapse of America NAomi ..
https://rumble.com/vllfh0-dangerous-new-orwellian-ny-bill-will-subdue-non-mentally-hygienic-citizens.html I DO HOPE U will listen to all them .
I think we are going to suffer an actual healthcare shortage due to this pressure on knowledgeable and informed patriots who work in health care to take this bad drug. Of course, that will only hurt ourselves and I know it’s not what they want to do either. This week, a “medical task force” (something I had never heard of) was ordered to a hospital near me to help them. Who are these people? Are they from FEMA–Is this a rehearsal? Are they gonna set up some tents? I am skeptical. I also heard on the radio of some healthcare people joining together to form groups where people can have more freedom in their care. Of course, that will probably be pay by fee (who knows?) but if it was like Rand Paul used to propose (that we have group health care that is focused on real healthcare choices and not red-tape, it would be a good thing.) Remember when we just had our family doctors and they cared about us?? I don’t want one single person to have a jab who doesn’t want to…. We are all gonna have to set aside a day for fasting and praying for all of us cuz we are the enemy now and Jesus said we would be hated for his testimony. So we are in the right gene pool. I am fasting after dinner on Thursdays–fasting breakfast and lunch and praying that day and celebrate His glory & goodness at dinner meal. If anyone wants to join me, maybe we can share our feelings on Andrea’s page. BY the way, I still have water cuz I get dry throat and eyes and If I feel woozy or something, I just drink a little shot glass of juice. Love ya’ll from Alabama–Trump capitol of the South! He better quit the jab Jive talking, though.
Not swamp juice though….Pomegranite or grape