So, I work in a nursing home, and like most of healthcare, they're going full on 'jab or job' and mandating the vaccine if you want to stay employed. I'm of course not budging, letting them fire me for this, but a fair few of my coworkers are going to capitulate.
So I figure, I'm going to make sure the other side loses even when it wins. I remember that awhile back, OSHA ruled that any side-effects from mandated vaccination had to be recorded as workplace injury, and had to be compensated as such. This would also require workplaces to sign a liability waiver, or else be faced with pretty vicious lawsuits. So I go searching to see if I can find this paperwork, print it out, pass it on to the people who are knuckling under... And what do I find...
https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#vaccine
"DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward."
Ain't been updated since then, and the major push for vaccine mandates started really gaining steam in the past few months... I'm guessing that their silence is being taken as tacit approval, or that they've given the go-ahead in the back rooms. So the high muckety-mucks know they can get away with it without even a ghost of resistance...
I don't remember seeing this circling around these parts, and I do a fair bit of lurking... Thought everybody should know that there's yet another area where worker protections from this bullshit have rotted through.
Also found this little bit of loveliness in my news: https://archive.is/uAN4z "Biden Tells Nursing Homes to Vaccinate Staffs to Keep Medicare, Medicaid Funds"
Have you told your coworkers you're standing firm? If they think they're the only one who'd be refusing they may be reluctant to refuse themselves, but if they think there are enough others that the nursing home won't be able to enforce it they may feel more comfortable refusing. Strength in numbers.
Oh certainly. And I know for a fact I'm not the only one who'll be leaving. Roughly a third of the nursing staff, a quarter of the wait staff, and fully half of the kitchen staff (including the terrifying dragon of a middle-aged lady who more or less single-handedly keeps the entire food system running) are going out with me. And like I said, I found out about this because I was researching up weapons to give to the people who have admitted they're staying... because I've been talking to them about my decision to stand firm.
Like most nursing homes, this place is always understaffed... and about a third of its staff is going to walk out at once over this. I have my doubts that the place is going to survive.
Which... honestly is sad. The residents here are amazing people, I take pride in helping them. But the management are detached from reality, as most management is, and are more concerned with looking good and providing the illusion of safety, than actually caring for their charges.
Or management is just playing their role in this giant game of chicken, hoping you'll flinch before they do.
Alex Berenson's been getting/sharing a bunch of emails from people working in hospitals and nursing homes that all say the same thing: about a third of people will not comply, and none of these places can survive having lost a third of their staff.
I'm just praying for a treatment to exist that kills this.
The fedposter in me is tempted to say that the best pills for it come in 9 millimeter or .44 calibur :P
I've got a few rancher friends who are mostly self-sufficient... I'm thinking that once I lose my job, I might just go hat-in-hand to them, do some honest work with 'em and learn to live off the land from them. Drop out of society as much as I can and just... wait for this to burn itself out. Or at least be out of the splash zone if things degrade farther.
I think that might be the best 'treatment' right now. Try to preserve sane society as best we can, by separating out from the crazies into our own communities, and defend them to the death while the crazies burn themselves out.
Yes, it circled. OSHA reversing that was a key event that led to major tech trying out mandates.
Washington State has anyone that even hints at working for the state has to get the jab. The job market is terrible, so finding something else is very difficult.
Most hospitals and medical centers are closed down waiting for the Delta variant onslaught. So, doctors nurses and others feel forced to do as the governor says.
It sucks, and none of them know what to do.
Hard to find work? All I see are help wanted signs everywhere I go all over the south and the rockies area too
Do you have an option to become an in-home caregiver through a small provider with less stringent vaccine requirements? Can you go independent, or does the health department heavily regulate who can and cannot provide care to homebound infirmed? Curious to know what options are available to you at this point.
I work in the kitchen, so.... not likely :P
Right now I'm looking into helping out some friends who run a meat-rabbit ranch, possibly get myself some work with a place that doesn't cotton to this sort of bullshit. I'll be fine, don't worry about me.
You have a good attitude about it.
Hey there. This conversation randomly popped up in my head today, and I remembered you being concerned and curious about what I'd be doing... So I figured that since all the chaos has finally settled, and I'm properly out of that job now, I'd offer you an update:
My rancher friends don't really have any work they could pay me for or justify supporting me, and I have no intention of just being a leech... So I've looked at my savings and what I can do with it, and I have -just- enough money together to get a Class A license without need of a loan.
Truck driving, in other words.
I've got one of the better truck driving schools in the country right next to me, and a lot of the really big companies recruit from them. And a lot of these companies have outright stated they are going to refuse and defy mandates. With truck drivers being in critical shortage right now, I'll have no trouble picking up a career.
I still intend to keep up cooking as a hobby, of course, whole reason I had a shit job as a sous chef was a hope to get my foot in the culinary industry, because I've enjoyed it as a hobby... A lot of trucking companies offer really cushy sign-on bonuses, and what I don't spend on necessary gear, I intend to devote to putting together a good fold-away camp kitchen and some 12-volt fridge and freezer space. I'll be the travelling, trucking, portable gourmet chef of the road :P
I'll be starting on my classes next week, and I'm feeling optimistic about it~
Trucking. Nice. Good call. Hope it works out for you. We're under the gun here with some mandates that have come our way but we're finding our path forward. We're not going to let the bastards push us around and I'm a bit of a bastard myself and my wife is one tough customer. It'll be a bumpy ride but the destination is a good one.
As I remember it, OSHA's initial requirement to report vaccine injuries as workplace injuries was immediately held up as a key resistance component against vaccine mandates. The large amount of publicity led to their quickly recanting, and then the point was just as quickly tossed aside by those who are against mandates. Their initial position was unexpected, so OSHA was assumed lost and unrecoverable once that position was walked back. Less under the radar, and more moving on from a lost cause.