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So, this is interesting. For all the talk of hospitals being overcrowded, no one has mentioned that the number of hospital beds has continuously gone down since the 1970s. Why would that be, when we have gone through a number of outbreaks and bad flu seasons? They KNOW overcrowding is going to occur, but cut costs on beds because hospitals are run by investors, not medical professionals. If it were up to nurses I'll wager we'd never be short of beds. Just another glaring reason that we need to remove the profit motive from medical care by passing Medicare For All.
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We've posted about sanctions being siege warfare and a crime against humanity a number of times. Joe Biden promised to end the war against Afghanistan, but that was not the truth. The truth is that he withdrew the troops and converted the war into economic warfare. US sanctions have left 23 million Afghans struggling with an acute food shortage, including 9 million Afghans on the verge of starvation. This is the new face of warfare, starving the poor. Shame on the Biden Administration!
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Covid vaccines reduce your symptoms or possibly prevent death if you contract Covid, however mandating them does not make vaccinated people any safer. On Thursday, the NVUSD voted to mandate vaccines for all employees, after reducing the time we had to comment and then disregarding all comments and claiming to be "listening to scientists". The truth is they are listening to partisan media pundits whose salaries are paid, in part, by Pfizer, and SELECTED scientists. Here are my comments, which were ignored:
"Let me start by saying that I am fully vaccinated. I believe in science. However I do not believe in taking away people's rights to make their own healthcare decisions without very serious justification.
I understand the fear of Covid. I am over 50, overweight and have emphysema. But our fear is not justification enough.
Omicron is less sever than previous strains, according to WHO Head Dr. Gabreyesus, and if you are vaccinated, you should be fine. The vaccines are no longer preventing the transmission or infection of the virus, according CDC head Dr Rochelle Walensky. Even Pfizer CEO Al Bourla has said that the vaccines "very limited protection, if any" against the Omicron variant (which is 97% of US cases now).
So you're talking about taking away workers' livelihoods if they don't comply with getting a vaccine that isn't going to prevent them from spreading it and probably isn't going to prevent them from getting Covid, based on an irrational fear (and fear IS irrational) of a variant that is only going to present like a cold or a flu, as long as YOU are vaccinated.
Someone else being vaccinated isn't going to change anything. This is very anti-workerto threaten to take away people's livelihoods in order to coerce them into conforming. If the vaccines were more effective, or if Omicron were NOT less severe, there might be a justification. But there is not. This is an attack on workers' rights and should not stand! It will not make any vaccinated person safer. To protect yourself, get vaccinated. That's all you can do.
You can't force people to eat right. You can't force people to take vitamin d. And you can't force people to take a vaccine that does not prevent transmission, even if it will lessen their symptoms and may save their life. It's THEIR choice."
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