The political class in North America is going to tank the continent.
And if you try to stop them or say something about it you’ll likely just end up “committing suicide”.
Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job
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#12I am an EMT and talk to a lot of nurses, PAs, and physicians in various circles. This wave is worse for a few reasons. - Healthcare staff have great animosity towards the unvaccinated patients. They aren't victims here, they did this to themselves. Nobody can muster any more compassion, especially for these people. Patients and people at large, not even just the total-nutjob anti-vaxxers, are tired of restrictions. "…
> - Healthcare staff have great animosity towards the unvaccinated patients.
In addition to this, I’ve also heard anecdotally that many of the unvaccinated (by choice) patients have animosity towards the healthcare workers themselves because the patients see this virus as politicized.
Overall I can imagine that it’s resulted in a more-hostile-than-average working environment which is bound to be stressful.
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#13There are discussions of a strike where I live because the province is trying to cut nursing total comp by about 5% https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/when-is-the-strike-vote-fa...
Manitoba Nurses are on shaky ground too as they haven't had a contract for 4 years.
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#14All the lockdowns started because we didn't want to overwhelm the hospital system. In the US, the hospital system, at least the ERs were already running on fumes. Our politicians have decided it's better to play world police and kill people overseas than invest in community hospitals.
All the billions handed out to the vaccine companies and the propaganda machines, but no investment in increasing hospital capacity. These mega corporations that run the hospitals, they prey on people's caring capacity. Nurses haven't already left the field because nothing else pays a living wage and they have 60k in student debt to pay off.
Let's just blame the unvaccinated though. That ensures Pfizer keeps buying ads on CNN.
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#15Good for them. Despite the mantras of "support our frontline workers" many of these employees have been treated like shit by their employers[1], their government who refused to take measures to limit the spread, and their patients - some of whom will continue to actively deny COVID even as they die from it. [1] https://www.nwahomepage.com/knwa/mercy-employees-frustrated-...
If a company cares about you, it is shown in money. The People and Culture guy is a snake oil salesman meant to scam you.
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#16The garbage fire of 2020 was almost worth it, it seems. First, the reconfiguration for hybrid remote work, but also - helping the "essential employee" class realize they have been taken for suckers. I can imagine it's hard to go back to pulling overtime around ungrateful anti-vaxxers, while the office TV is showing billionaires take off into space in personal rocket penises.
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#17The look on the interviewed Director’s face and the tremor in his voice speaks volumes about the stress he and his colleagues are enduring. The explanation Phan gives that healthcare workers expected this point in time to be easier because of warm weather and vaccinations is heartbreaking.
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#18There are discussions of a strike where I live because the province is trying to cut nursing total comp by about 5% https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/when-is-the-strike-vote-fa...
Ontario is squeezing nurses as well: https://cupe.ca/despite-heroic-sacrifices-ontario-health-car...
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#19Good for them. Despite the mantras of "support our frontline workers" many of these employees have been treated like shit by their employers[1], their government who refused to take measures to limit the spread, and their patients - some of whom will continue to actively deny COVID even as they die from it. [1] https://www.nwahomepage.com/knwa/mercy-employees-frustrated-...
If a company cares about you, it is shown in money. The People and Culture guy is a snake oil salesman meant to scam you.
There are certainly shops that treat you like garbage but pay very well. It's an abusive form of golden handcuffs.
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#20The garbage fire of 2020 was almost worth it, it seems. First, the reconfiguration for hybrid remote work, but also - helping the "essential employee" class realize they have been taken for suckers. I can imagine it's hard to go back to pulling overtime around ungrateful anti-vaxxers, while the office TV is showing billionaires take off into space in personal rocket penises.
I feel like this might be a highly underrated commentary on the socio-economic status of America.