COVIDIOCY in the medical field: Nurses in Kentucky stage protest against vaccination requirement

WLWT

Just a little concerning that, apparently, so many health workers in America are so ignorant to - and contemptuous of - science. Does one really want such malevolent people caring for them? Any wonder the overall state of health care in America is so poor? Via WLWT - 

EDGEWOOD, Ky. — A homemade sign, with the words "Don't Fire Our Heroes," captured the message of a protest on Sunday outside a Cincinnati-area hospital. 

"It's about rights. It's a right to choose. I respect your right to have it and you should respect my right not to," Chris Kerns, a nurse for more than three decades, said. 

Kerns spent her Sunday outside the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Edgewood, Kentucky talking about why she thinks it's wrong for hospitals in Greater Cincinnati to require that workers get vaccinated against COVID-19. 

"This is American rights," Kerns said. "We have rights, and they're taking them away." 

Sister station WLWT asked Kerns if she faces an early October deadline to get vaccinated. 

"Yes," Kerns said. "And they can fire me. I don't care." 

Karla Griffin, a medical office worker, said her career is equally uncertain because she, too, opposes vaccine mandates. 

"Are you facing a deadline as well?" WLWT asked Griffin. 

"I am," she said. "Oct. 1st I lose my job. But it is what it is." 

Heather King, a healthcare worker, worries the vaccine requirement will hurt hospital patients the most if people like her choose not to take the shot. 

"I’m still undecided. It's a personal choice," King said. "We have to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1 or we lose our jobs. And unfortunately, the people that are going to suffer the most are our community and our patients because there's not going to be anyone to take care of them properly." 

Whether that's true remains to be seen. But Rachel, who's not a health care worker, was glad to support medical professionals who may or may not get vaccinated because they've been on the pandemic's front lines. 

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