With hospital staff resigning from rightfully refusing the Covid jab, and given the difficulties of getting in trained, fully vaxxed up migrant replacements in the short term, the System is simply biting the bullet and closing down medical units. People can just suffer a bit more, because, according to the ruling elites, they should be used to suffering a the new normal.
“A hospital in Maine has closed its neonatal intensive care unit because of a staffing shortage due to the state's impending vaccine mandate for health care workers.
Employees at Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston are required to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In 18 days' time, WGME-TV reports, any health care worker who is not vaccinated faces termination.
Staff resignations in protest of the vaccine policy have forced the hospital to close its NICU, leaving only four other NICUs open in the state.
Additionally, the hospital on Monday announced on its website that pediatric, heart attack, and trauma patients who came to the hospital would be assessed and stabilized, but sent to another facility if they need to be admitted, WMTW-TV reports. But on Tuesday the announcement was removed without explanation, and it is unclear why those hospital admissions were temporarily suspended.
While a majority of the hospital staff is already vaccinated, more than 250 employees have not submitted their vaccination records, WGME-TV reports. Of those 250 health care workers, 170 have roles that put them in direct contact with patients.
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills' vaccine mandate went into effect on Oct. 1, but the state will not enforce the rule until Oct. 29, giving hospitals time to create contingency plans should they face staff shortages.
The Lewiston hospital's contingency plan involves cutting intensive care beds by 50% and reducing the number of medical surgical beds by 40%, according to the Bangor Daily News.
Maine Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Jackie Farwell told the paper that the state was in touch with the hospital about staffing issues. She said $146 million has been set aside to assist health care organizations with staffing shortages and that money will be made available at the end of the month.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are planning to petition the governor to amend her vaccine order to include a testing option for unvaccinated workers, which should help some hospitals retain vaccine-hesitant staff.
After the order went into effect, several Maine hospitals reported workers had left their jobs in protest.
MaineHealth said on Oct. 1 that 69 staffers had resigned. Central Maine Healthcare reported 70 resignations at the time and 500 open positions at the hospital. Another 89 staffers left at Northern Light Health because they would not get vaccinated.
The vaccine mandate isn't just hurting hospitals. Three nursing homes in the state announced plans to close in September as long-term care facilities in the state say they have a "crisis" of staffing shortages.”
It is not just hospitals where the State is simply allowing the Great Rundown to occur, but with the police force too.
“Crime is on the rise in San Francisco but city officials have placed more than 180 employees including police and sheriff’s departments who have not received a coronavirus vaccine on paid leave, a move that triggers a process that could end in termination.
According to San Francisco Police’s crime dashboard, a number of year to year crimes are on the rise in the city, including homicide (12.8 percent), assault (9.2 percent), human trafficking (20 percent), and arson (9.3 percent).
San Francisco officials claim they can cut staff and still provide critical services.
“Across the country and the world, thousands of people continue to die from COVID-19,” Mawuli Tugbenyoh, spokesperson for the Department of Human Resources, said in a statement issued Thursday. “Sadly, this includes employees of the city and county of San Francisco.”
“To protect the health and safety of members of the public as well as employees, the city issued its vaccination policy,” Tugbenyoh said.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the development:
As of Thursday afternoon, 76 sworn police officers — or 3.5 percent of all officers — remained unvaccinated. A additional 32 non-sworn employees also have not received shots. Those numbers dropped from early Wednesday evening, when Police Chief Bill Scott said 118 officers and 31 non-sworn employees remained unvaccinated, on trend with a decline in recent weeks.
The Police Department has 2,832 employees, including 2,113 officers. Most, but not all, needed to get vaccinated by Oct. 13. The Sheriff’s Department reported a 3.8 percent unvaccinated rate, with 39 out of 1,014 staff not fully vaccinated. In the Fire Department, 35 employees — or 2 percent of 1,738 — have not gotten shots.
Of the departments affected by Wednesday’s mandate deadline, the Adult Probation Department had the highest rate of unvaccinated staff at 5 percent, but that only accounted for eight people. The other departments had higher vaccination rates.
San Francisco’s Department of Human Resources said employees who have not gotten vaccinated will now receive notices that they can no longer report to work. A hearing for each employee will be held and employees can appeal if they are ruled against. If their appeal is denied they will be terminated.
“Employees can apply for medical or religious exemptions. The city has so far received approximately 800 exemption requests from city workers, which it is reviewing ‘as quickly as possible with priority given to employees who have earlier deadlines for vaccination,’” the Chronicle reported. “As of Wednesday, 260 of those requests came from police, sheriff and fire departments.”
Police chief Scott said in an email that the department would rearrange staffing to fill patrol spots vacated by unvaccinated employees but he also stressed earlier in the year that the department was already 18 percent below recommended staffing levels when asking supervisors for more funding.
Tracy McCray, vice president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association and lieutenant in charge of the robbery unit, said on Thursday she was concerned about the shortage of police.
“It’s a time when we really can’t afford to lose anyone,” McCray said. “It’s just really harsh, it’s my way or the highway.”
All the ingredients of a classic “zombie apocalypse,” with crime running out of control, in the context of declining health, are being set up.