The American Politics Thread

Frontline workers were considered heroes at the beginning of this pandemic.  Now their careers will be ruined and they will be discarded like garbage.

FJB

New York State health care workers will no longer have a religious exemption to the state's Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a federal appeals court vacated a temporary injunction Friday.

Nearly 16,000 health care employees in New York State have been granted religious exemptions by their employers prior to Friday's court ruling, the state's health department confirmed to CNN Friday night.

That's 15,844 employees of hospitals, nursing homes, adult homes, Certified Home Health Agencies (CHHA), Licensed Home Care Service Agencies (LHCSA) and hospice facilities, said Jeffrey Hammond, deputy director of communications for the New York State Department of Health.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/us/ny-state-health-care-workers-religious-exemption-ruling/index.html

CosmicVibration wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: CosmicVibration wrote: Frontline workers were considered heroes at the beginning of this pandemic.  Now their careers will be ruined and they will be discarded like garbage. FJB New York State health care workers will no longer have a religious exemption to the state's Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a federal appeals court vacated a temporary injunction Friday. Nearly 16,000 health care employees in New York State have been granted religious exemptions by their employers prior to Friday's court ruling, the state's health department confirmed to CNN Friday night. That's 15,844 employees of hospitals, nursing homes, adult homes, Certified Home Health Agencies (CHHA), Licensed Home Care Service Agencies (LHCSA) and hospice facilities, said Jeffrey Hammond, deputy director of communications for the New York State Department of Health. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/us/ny-state-health-care-workers-religious-exemption-ruling/index.html The irony here is these addled folks are claiming some type of "religious exemption" for a medical procedure....and yet they are working in a medical field where vaccinations are a prime deterrent for contagious diseases. Buh-bye. Get new jobs as snake charmers or televangelists hawking healing bleach. Perhaps join the Amish and make furniture.  Part 2 of the irony, they seem to ignore the prime directive of their religion - at least alleged Christians - wherein "what you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me", or "love thy neighbor as thyself." There's is a selfish take that actually goes against their supposed religious principles. Of course, there is a long history regarding the flexibility of religious principles and the bending and warping of said principles to allow for slavery, persecution and intolerance. Genocide, racism, caste -- one can make religion do just about anything, which makes sense, as religion is a man-made concept. STFU, get vaccinated, or find a job that suits the 2000 year-old precepts of your mythological floating sky deity. A shepherd. Or a stone mason. Maybe a temple guard or subsistence farmer. Or just go full-blown stone age and be a hunter/gatherer. Although misplaced, I agree to some of your banter...  The company I work for doesn’t consider scientific logic but they accept the irrationality of religion.   They didn’t want to consent to my antibody test but they gave me an exemption on the absurdity of religion.

Nothing misplaced, except for your inane reply. Your attitude toward your "religious exemption" proves my point. You don't deserve an exemption based on some phony religious excuse, and neither do any of the healthcare workers. There is no "religious" reason to preclude a healthcare worker from a medical mandate for all healthcare workers. Again, if the person is seeking an exemption because their religion forbids it (and I'd love to see the scriptural semantic gymnastics required to pull that out of their god's exalted posterior), they should not be working for a science-based medical institution. They should read Tarot, or draw horoscopes, burn incense or clutch their rosaries rather than rely on medicine.

CosmicVibration wrote: I bet most of the health care workers have a more robust immunity towards covid then those that have been vaccinated and weren’t exposed. Why are they being discriminated against?  Never mind logic, where is grade school common sense?

It's a requirement. For all workers. There is no discrimination. Saying, "God commands that I should get a raise" will not work at their annual job review either, even when quoting scripture. Or quoting Spock's "Live long and prosper" for that matter.

And there are scientific studies that show quite clearly you are more likely to spread Covid-19 if you are unvaccinated. You should not be around sick people if you will in all likelihood get them even more ill.