And there it is folks! The end goal, forced compliance!
I would force you to take the vaccine, yes, but if unable to do that, I would give you a way out if you felt that strongly about it. You can be segregated from society in detention with the other unvaxxed. I think I could find a couple of nurses to work the dispensary.
I think I already explained why. I am 100% intolerant of your right to refuse the vaccine, clog up hospitals, leave orphans, and generate huge medical bills that you can't pay or won't live long enough to pay. I'm not willing to compromise with such people. Of course, I'm not the one calling the shots (pun intended).
I can't emphasize enough that I don't care what those people think. They think poorly, like the tantruming infant in the doctor's office there for his vaccinations who, if he could speak, would probably tell us he's still doing the research and waiting on the FDA, as if there were any valid conclusion possible apart from take the vaccine, and unlike the infant, they are a threat to the rest of us.
Here's how I view the antivaxxers claiming that the rest of us want to oppress them. I simply don't take them seriously. "My rights! My rights! See the system oppress of my rights!"
"Put this drug into your body or lose your income! "
Nobody's telling them to lose their income, just to earn one somewhere else. Or not if you'd rather stay home.
It seems impossible for many to understand that we do not give these people permission to live any way they like among us. They see it as an affront that others don't want unvaccinated nurses in the hospital, as if what they wanted but nothing else matters. Everything to allow the irrational nurse to go on being irrational, screw everybody else. How many times have I commented on this phenomenon already? People that don't care at all about the fears of others or what they want perplexed and indignant that others won't let them have what they want.
This is my question here, is it better to lose however many medical professional staff country-wide over mandates?
Better than letting them work unvaccinated? Yes. And if there is a health care professional shortage, I say move and train vaccinated nurses from the COVID wars to places that they are needed more, which is just about anywhere in the hospital where other kinds of patients would be such as maternity patients. Nurses could get up to speed in a short time under the auspices of experienced maternity (for example) nurses, who check cervical dilation, count the timing of contractions, watch for bleeding (threatened abortion), blood pressure problems (eclampsia) or fevers (sepsis), how to assist in deliveries, do an APGAR assessment. Inexperienced staff don't even need to know how to deal with such problems right away - just to be able to recognize them. I know, because I did a two week rotation in obstetrics in medical school, and with zero experience, helped quite a bit.
How about an amazing anecdote? I was on duty one night for the delivery of a fetus that had already died in the womb. The dad was also present. I was the only one there that didn't know that the baby would be stillborn. So I'm making the usual comforting small talk about how most deliveries are a joyous experience, people looking at me funny. Are you familiar with the tongs used to deliver babies? The fetus's head was too large t deliver vaginally had it been healthy, but you don't do a C-section in such a circumstance. What they do is gruesome: the skull is crushed so that it can pass through the cervix and birth canal. I didn't know that the doc was deliberately crushing this skull, but I could see him using unusual force and could hear the sound of breaking bone. I was horrified at this doctor's ham-handedness.
Then the fetus appeared, head crushed, blue, and smelling like decomposition. I still thought that this was a live birth, and began doing the APGAR assessment - breathing, heart rate, reflexes, muscle tone, and skin color (the natural blueness pinks up right way with a breath or two). Of course, this was completely inappropriate considering the circumstances, and again grounds for unsettling looks from the staff. "What are you doing?" they asked me. Worst day of medical school, and a crappy thing to do to a young medical student.
But the point is, with experienced supervision, anybody can assist with this work.