A Hospital Finds an Unlikely Group Opposing Vaccination: Its Workers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Their movement started discreetly, just a handful of people communicating on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal. But in just days it had ballooned tenfold. And within two weeks, it had turned into a full-blown public protest, with people waving picket signs to denounce efforts to push them to receive coronavirus vaccines.

But these were not just any vaccine resisters. They were nurses, medical technicians, infection control officers and other staff who work at a hospital in Staten Island, which has the highest rate of Covid-19 infection of any borough in New York City.

Outside Staten Island University Hospital this week, as passing cars and fire trucks honked supportively, employees chanted, “I am not a lab rat!”

The aggressive opposition to the vaccine, and even regular testing, at a hospital in New York City — the epidemic’s onetime epicenter — shows the challenges of reaching the unvaccinated when some of the very people who could serve as role models refuse vaccination.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-hospital-finds-an-unlikely-group-opposing-vaccination-its-workers/ar-AANBOEy

[Callalily]

1. Send all of the covid patients to there.

[Ocelot II]

2. I can't figure that out at all - of all people, they should know better.

But now that the vaccines are getting final approval, tough shit for them. Get the fucking shot or go home.

[Bayard]

3. Easy decision

Fire them.

[jrthin]

8. +1 I saw you post after I posted the same.

[pandr32]

12. +1

[ProfessorGAC]

16. +1

I'll bet finding another job will be easy when the reason why they got fired is protesting against a public health initiative.
To heck with them.
There are young people graduating every year that needs those jobs.

[Texaswitchy]

4. Set up Covid - 19 hospitals.

All the unvaxed go there.

Workers also.

Let them deal with each other.

[StarryNite]

9. Do the same thing with schools and those who don't want their kids masked.

There are teachers who don't want to be vaccinated or wear a mask. There are parents who don't want their kids wearing a mask. Make some of the schools in each district the COVID schools. And as you said, let them deal with each other.

[Texaswitchy]

11. Sounds rough but they are spreading the virus.

I want a new normal life.

[Freddie]

5. Staten Island is the red part of NYC

Unfortunately.

[cadoman]

6. good riddance -- if they were that deranged they were likely a danger to patients [nt]

[jrthin]

7. Fire them! nt

[at140]

10. Let them work without vaccinated

and when they get sick from covid, let them suffer through it.

[3catwoman3]

13. "I am not a lab rat."

No. You are, most assuredly, a dumbass.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. That was my impression as well.

[lagomorph777]

15. Pull their licenses.

They should not be allowed near patients.

[Treefrog]

17. Big protest about a month ago of Atrium Health workers in NC.

I don’t get it.