Medicare/Medicaid Mandate Allowed; Hospitals No Longer Pretending to Follow the Science

The Supreme Court upheld Biden's vaccine mandate for health care workers in federally funded Medicare or Medicaid programs. The majority wrote,

After all, ensuring that providers take steps to avoid transmitting a dangerous virus to their patients is consistent with the fundamental principle of the medical profession: first, do no harm. It would be the very opposite of efficient and effective administration for a facility that is supposed to make people well to make them sick with COVID–19.

Meanwhile, health officials and hospitals let COVID-infected staff stay on the job. Why?

The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages and crushing caseloads that the omicron variant is causing....Many hospitals are not only swamped with cases but severely shorthanded because of so many employees out with COVID-19.

I repeat: "so many employees out with COVID-19." I wonder what the vaccination rates are in those hospitals in California, France, and Rhode Island mentioned in the article. Perhaps 90 to 100 percent? Something to think about before you get a booster. Of course, the shortage of staff has nothing to do with firing staff for refusing an experimental injection. They had to be fired because they can spread COVID. But staff who are infected with COVID apparently can't.

I hope that's clear--that hospitals and health officials are no longer pretending to follow any kind of science or even common sense. This isn't a recent phenomenon. For decades, health officials have advised diabetics to eat starches at every meal; told tired, cold, depressed thyroid patients that they're fine; dispensed antibiotics like candy; dispensed opioids like candy; and vilified ivermectin as dangerous when it's safer than Tylenol. Something to think about before you take some pills or have a procedure.

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