Covid 19

Police deaths ytd:

 

Sad

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/16/...workers-vaccination-suspended-intl/index.html

Around 3,000 healthcare workers have been suspended in France after failing to meet a government requirement to get vaccinated against Covid-19, French Health Minister Olivier Véran told French radio station RTL Thursday.

The employees missed a September 15 deadline to be inoculated, which was introduced by the government in July.

 

I know a bunch of people who have been evaluating their options in moving from companies with thousands of employees to smaller companies under 100 workers due to this.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/...small-business-vaccine-mandate-threshold.html

When the Biden administration announced an upcoming mandate that employees be vaccinated or tested regularly at companies with 100 or more employees, business leaders responded with a barrage of questions. Among smaller companies, one loomed especially large: Why 100?

It’s an appealingly round, easy-to-remember number, and it captures a broad swath of the American work force. President Biden estimated that his order would apply to 80 million employees and cover two-thirds of all workers.

But as a dividing line between a “big” business and a “small” one, it’s a threshold not found in any other major federal or state law.

 

Actually the division in regulations is found in federal law ...

Employers who have at least 100 employees and federal contractors who have at least 50 employees are required to complete and submit an EEO-1 Report (a government form that requests information about employees' job categories, ethnicity, race, and gender) to EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor every year.

and

Size standards define the largest size a business can be to participate in government contracting programs and compete for contracts reserved or set aside for small businesses. Size standards vary by industry, and are generally based on the number of employees or the amount of annual receipts the business has.

and

In 2020, all employers with less than 500 employees were required to provide FFCRA paid leave to employees covered by the Act. Effective January 1, 2021, FFCRA paid leave became optional. Covered employers were not required to participate, but if they did, they would continue to receive tax credits for the payments made to employees on leave for covered reasons.

 

Jeremy Flood

@_Floodlight

If the vaccine was dangerous they would've given it to poor people first, not politicians and billionaires.

3:57 PM · Sep 19, 2021

 

It seems that first hand experience is a mind changer ....

 

Over a hundred years of medical science and knowledge thwarted by politically based ignorance resulting in more deaths now than then.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...-1918-flu-pandemic/ar-AAODZnV?ocid=uxbndlbing

U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 1918 Flu Pandemic
Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder

The U.S. coronavirus death toll surpassed 675,000 on Monday, overtaking the estimated number of Americans dead from the 1918 flu pandemic.

For a country of roughly 328 million people, that death toll means that roughly 1 in 500 Americans have died from the coronavirus.

But the U.S. population was much smaller over a century ago, so the 1918 flu had a higher death rate.

Still, the delta coronavirus variant that took hold of the country in the summer months led to a massive fourth wave of the pandemic. About 2,000 Americans are dying from the virus on average each day.

And while experts debate whether booster shots are needed, over 36% of the country hasn’t received a single dose of vaccine yet, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Globally, the coronavirus has claimed about 4.7 million lives, though that death toll is considered to be an undercount.

 

Might need to send more folks here if they start firing hundreds of employees.


https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article254366508.html

Tens of thousands of workers at two of the Triangle’s big hospital systems were given until Tuesday to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or get an approved exemption.

As of Monday, hundreds at Duke Health and UNC Health still had neither.

Hospitals are bracing for the departure of employees who would rather lose their job than get vaccinated against COVID-19. Already, 60 workers have resigned from UNC, citing the vaccination requirement, according to spokesman Alan Wolf. As of Monday, about 1,400 employees still had not been vaccinated or obtained an exemption.

 

Where?

HOSPITALS
For hospital services, Johnston Health is now part of the UNC Health Care system, and they offer two locations. One in the Clayton area on HWY 42 and one in Smithfield.

 

Let them go. The unvaccinated are the reason why this pandemic is dragging on, and Americans are dying unnecessarily. They’re putting everyone, including children at greater risk, for their so-called “freedoms”. Enough nonsense.

 

Good Lord. Just imagine if HALF the energy that some people have spent on “anti-mask bullying” had been used on other issues for the BETTERMENT of the country instead. Maybe things like making the tax rate a little more fair for the average American. Or maybe we could address the fact that there 55 MILLION gig workers in this economy without benefits or a 401k plan? Wouldn’t that be something? Instead, we get this kind of idiocy where parents get bullied just for trying to protect their own children. Shouldn’t this couple have the “freedom” to protect their immunocompromised child?

 

Not just in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/21/germany-mask-gas-station-shooting/

Gas station clerk in Germany killed by man who felt ‘cornered’ by mask rules

A 49-year-old man who told police that he felt “cornered” by Germany’s pandemic rules was arrested in the killing of a gas station worker trying to enforce mask mandates.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-germany-mask-murder-gas-station-attendant/

Gas station clerk murdered for asking a customer to wear a mask

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...a-covid-19-vaccine/ar-AAOG3Q6?ocid=uxbndlbing



Novant Health suspends hundreds of employees for not getting a Covid-19 vaccine
By Gregory Lemos and Jennifer Henderson, CNN 22 hrs ago
A North Carolina-based health care provider announced Tuesday it has suspended hundreds of employees for not meeting the company's Covid-19 vaccine requirements.

Novant Health says employees, by now, must have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine or applied for -- and received -- a medical or religious exemption.

Those that hadn't -- about 375 workers across 15 hospitals and hundreds of clinics and outpatient facilities -- are now suspended.

Anyone who doesn't comply with the vaccine policy within the five-day, unpaid suspension period will lose their job, the Winston Salem-based company said.

About 98.6% of the company's more than 35,000 workers are complaint with the policy, it said.

Workers who started a two-dose vaccine series will now have until October 15 to get their second dose and remain in compliance, the company said.

Employees that receive exemptions are required to undergo weekly Covid-19 testing, and wear N95 respirators, masks or other appropriate protective equipment and eye protection while working on Novant Health premises, the company said.

President Joe Biden, while announcing sweeping vaccine rules for federal workers and large employers earlier this month, also said he would require the 17 million health care workers at facilities receiving funds from Medicare and Medicaid to be fully vaccinated, including at hospitals, home care facilities and dialysis centers.

Besides Novant Health, other health care systems and hospitals have similarly suspended or terminated the jobs of people who did not comply with vaccine policies.