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[deleted] OP t1_ir3i7gg wrote

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weakenedstrain t1_ir3jrvy wrote

So uh… that whole pandemic on top of an already struggling healthcare system was a fiasco.

And you’re blaming… vaccines?

Please tell me I’m wrong.

Edit in response to edit: you’re blaming a mandate designed to keep people safe for costing more for healthcare. Nurses SHOULD be paid triple what they are for the work they do and the last few years.

I blame YOU and morons like you who think the mandate is the problem when mandates and amazing science are what got us through the pandemic so far with just one of the highest per capita death rates.

Antivaxxers made this LONGER and much more painful than it needed to be.

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[deleted] OP t1_ir3ke93 wrote

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wishabitchwood t1_ir3l8ts wrote

And you don't think nurses figured out their worth? Those that could become travelers did. Hospitals refuse to compete and pay their nurses accordingly. Raise pay, fix staff ratios. Then they might do better.

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[deleted] OP t1_ir3mm70 wrote

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wishabitchwood t1_ir3nov4 wrote

Boston seems to have no problem with any of this. I get in to better specialists there quicker than Bangor. So I travel 5 hours, get quicker, better, more up to date care.

I'm so sick of listening to "well covid" as an excuse for everything in Bangor when it comes to healthcare.

I refuse to go the EMMC after the way tgey've treated my adult child, my other adult child is a nurse and worked there during college for a year as a cna. They want nurses but treat workers like crap. Can't blame covid for that. Now she's a nurse that will never work for northern lights.

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weakenedstrain t1_ir3kzbz wrote

So… you’re saying the medical providers who survived the global pandemic in no small part due to the miraculous vaccine demand more pay as travelers since the anti-science anti-vax public-safety-endangering Covidiots left?

Well, yeah, that sucks, but, y’know… science?

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Blue_Eyed_ME t1_ir3k2d6 wrote

This makes no sense. States without vaccine mandates are facing the same shortages and traveller nurse expenses.

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[deleted] OP t1_ir3kv2w wrote

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weakenedstrain t1_ir3mlkv wrote

If they aren’t easy to get (degrees) why would a rational person throw it away over lies and superstition? But it happens.

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hike_me t1_ir3l4tz wrote

How many people were actually fired for refusing to get vaccinated?

Not many.

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priceless37 t1_ir4bd1v wrote

Dozens according to one article at the time. Mostly it was lower level support staff, not doctors and nurses

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hike_me t1_ir4wtgc wrote

Dozens, most being low level staff, out of tens of thousands of healthcare workers in the state doesn’t seem like much

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priceless37 t1_ir4ztnx wrote

It isn’t. That’s why it’s dozens and thousands. Most people aren’t morons that question the work they do everyday.

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[deleted] OP t1_ir3lvwa wrote

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hike_me t1_ir3muaj wrote

They’re already required to get a host of vaccinations including annual influenza. Adding Covid is not unreasonable.

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[deleted] OP t1_ir3ncp1 wrote

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hike_me t1_ir3nzp5 wrote

The politicization of the Covid vaccine by the right is what damaged healthcare

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weakenedstrain t1_ir3mqy4 wrote

If we can just invest in a good public awareness campaign about the venality of the antivaxx movement and the snake-oil salespeople that promote it, we can maybe weather the next pandemic better.

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