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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHealth Care workers should refuse to show up in red states that bar masks mandates
It's time to take the fight to Republican governors. If they won't do anything to abate the spread of COVID for purely political reasons, then they do not deserve health care workers that put themselves in danger. Doctors, nurses, ambulance drives, and all the health care frontline personnel should travel to places where the governors are actually being responsible until the pandemic ends. Enough is enough. Time to drive home the point that we have the ability to fight this disease but we shouldn't placate the political whims of irresponsible politicians.
SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)Just consider them collateral damage?
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Their governors and the public are asking them to sacrifice themselves. Not only with the potential of catching the pandemic but creating an unworkable environment where they cannot keep up. It is extremely damaging for these healthcare workers on many levels and they are not getting the support that they need. Something has to get the attention of the public and their governments.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)That way, they can choose to work in states that support mask mandates.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)I like that. I suppose that only works for some if their situations and life circumstances allow for it.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)"Hell is other people."
roamer65
(36,739 posts)You cannot be forced to work, especially when it endangers your health.
It is a personal choice for them, just like abortion is a personal choice for a woman.
jimfields33
(15,453 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)dware
(12,092 posts)Because they're Gov. is an asshole?
Yeah, that's the ticket.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)dware
(12,092 posts)our medical personnel didn't go on strike, so nice try at the "gotcha".
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)There is no gotcha. And comparing the military to the public? Cmon. Not the same thing at all and you know that.
dware
(12,092 posts)Have a great Friday and a great weekend.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)There is no game. It is a discussion. Do you show up here to score points or look for one upsmanship contests?
Healthcare workers deserve the right to advocate for their own working conditions and safety. If thats a game to you then I dont know what to tell you. We are losing our healthcare workers because of exposure and we arent going to be able to keep up unless these governors wake the hell up. What are health care workers supposed to do if they cannot get support? Voluntarily put themselves in danger for people that will spit on them for trying to save them?
lark
(23,003 posts)People that spit on them, call them liars for telling them they have CV19, scream for treatments drumpf lied and said were available but aren't? I think they should have to just stay at home and suffer the consequences because they got this through refusing to wear masks and going to places (often churches and parties) with lots of others indoors. Just wish nurses and hospitals could refuse to treat those asses.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)refuses to see anti maskers and trumpers.She can choose whom she keeps on her caseload.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Apparently they have had problems with a crazy or two making threats, security was really high when O went there for my most recent visit. I dont understand anti-maskers, those idiots can inconvenience themselves for even 15 minutes.
lark
(23,003 posts)I approve.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Wow.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)And she does not tolerate things rwnj do and say. She hates racists and won't treat them. And magats are the fools running around without masks.
Left ward people are smart enough to wear masks in the office.
If you look at rwnjs they all have a similar range of appearance.
They look like each other.
She doesn't go on looks she goes by thier behaviors .
She's from India and the racists talk shit to
Her like they're entitled and she bounces them out the door. Her practice is hers . She does it for health reasons and mental health.
And some rwnjs around here can be kareny and abusive verbally to her. There is no reason to put up with abuse.
However I love her to smithereens best endro I ever had that I also call my freind.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)leave the office and never come back if it comes up in conversaton?
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)PTWB
(4,131 posts)It is what it is.
dware
(12,092 posts)but she didn't vote for Pissolini this year, it was Biden/Harris, and she would NEVER refuse to treat someone in distress, no matter what the circumstances are, and she would be appalled at some of the ridiculous statements here, as would the majority of our health care workers.
dware
(12,092 posts)Are you going to throw them under the bus also?
mucifer
(23,371 posts)marble falls
(56,358 posts)... Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:"
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I have taken 2 one for marriage and one for my profession
You can't make me violate either
LSFL
(1,109 posts)She would never support this idea. She would not abandon her charges because a politician abandoned her.
lark
(23,003 posts)This is the assholes fault, not drumpfs. They choose to believe in lies and refuse to believe in science, their choice.
LSFL
(1,109 posts)It's a calling, not a job.
lark
(23,003 posts)I get that nursing is a calling to help others. But when the others are full on murderers, what then? Maybe because I don't have that calling is why I rant like this, probably. However, if I was that nurse in SD, I think I would be going on disability due to anxiety of the asses killing her or her family while she tries to keep them alive. What an untenable situation.
LSFL
(1,109 posts)I am not so sure about the defined enemy thing though.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Youd be wrong.
dware
(12,092 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 28, 2020, 11:36 AM - Edit history (1)
my daughter is a Paramedic, who is a staunch republican, who, BTW, hates Pissolini and voted for Biden/Harris, she's never refused to treat someone in distress, no matter what the circumstances are.
I am so proud of her/
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Shes also a black woman, and Ive always thought of her as a kind and intelligent person. Were not close, but always speak when were both outside.
I was gobsmacked when I saw her place a sign for the buffoon in her yard. Go figure.
bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)just because I happen to live in a state that elected a moron as governor - a woman that can't distinguish her ass from a hole in the ground.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)hospital or nursing home gets an unshakable conviction that they must not work in any state which doesn't mandate masks, and must immediately mow to a state that does.. For the record, workers in AK, AZ, FL, GA, ID, KS, MS, MO, NE, OK, SC, SD, TN, and WY are affected.
Overnight, millions of people in the affected states pack up their bags and move to a different state. No matter how much people plead, they refuse to go back. Governors in the affected states activate their National Guards, only to find that all health care workers within such Guards have already fled the state.
One month later, casualties are in the millions. The vast majority of the elderly in nursing homes have passed away, as they are unable to receive anything but the most rudimentary medical care from those lucky enough to have family who have taken them home. Those who are in hospitals on Dec 1st suffer much the same fate. Anyone involved in a life-threatening accident is lucky to just be crippled, as the only aissistance they can hope for is a helpful bystander with a first aid kit.
The government has tried to force health care workers to go back to these states, but while they can be dragged there, nothing is capable of making them treat those in need.
Two months later, 95% of those in the affected states have moved to the 36 states where health care is still possible. With a third of states effectively no longer in existence, the economy crashes.
Well done.
Iggo
(47,486 posts)Refuse to treat people because of political differences?
Seriously?
Are you in the right place?
What in the actual fuck!!