New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers

Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by tptacek on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:54PM (#28753369)

I took the time to look up the employee turnover rate at a regional health care provider in order to write my comment. Can I ask that you expend at least that much effort (it's not much!) to support your claim with evidence?

My argument might be more subtle than my comment makes it seem; if so, that's my fault, because I wrote downthread as well and probably assumed people read both comments. A very large cohort of the workers in a regional health chain are not medical professionals, but rather support staff. Those are the employees that I'm saying are relatively low-skilled and replaceable. What's more, our current economic conditions make it straightforward for them to hop to other jobs right now.

What you're saying seems pretty unlikely, given the demographics of vaccination.

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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by native_samples on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:25AM (#28756744)

Health officials have spent nearly two years claiming that all of society has to shut down because they cannot increase staffing capacity at all. That's why so many of the emergency hospitals that were built ended up shutting down having never seen a single patient.

This claim was always implausible on its face, but having so adamantly claimed this, public health does not now get to claim that huge numbers of workers can be trivially hired and trained within a few weeks. If that actually is the case then the justification for lockdowns evaporates.

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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by TrevorJ on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:07PM (#28765650)

You are right, I did not understand that you were speaking about support staff and not those in nursing. Obviously nurses and doctors are not trivial to train and replace.

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