REALITY CHECK: Nurses Leaving Hospitals Due to “Unsafe Work Conditions” (USA Today)

October 13, 2021

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/reality-check-nurses-are-leaving

REALITY CHECK: Nurses Are Leaving Hospitals Due to “Unsafe Work Conditions” (USA Today)

By James Lyons Weiler
CLAIM: Nurses are leaving hospitals due to “unsafe work conditions”

A story has been circulating on social media started by a series of tweets by an organization known as “USA Today” that claimed that nurses were leaving hospitals across the United States due to “Unsafe Work Conditions”.

They cite a nurse, Bonnie Castillo, as having a simple “solution”:

USA Today also then claims that “Long before the pandemic, hospitals staffed at bare-bone levels to maximum profit, rather than at the level need to safely care for patients and the severity of their conditions”.

Second source reality check: According to Becker Hospital Reviews, hundreds of “healthcare workers” are leaving individual major hospital systems over vaccine mandates:

10/6/2021 – “400 Henry Ford workers leave jobs over vaccination mandate”

“Henry Ford is among the latest health systems to lose employees over noncompliance with mandates.”

10/4/2021 – “1,400 unvaccinated workers leave Northwell Health”

“The departures — announced one week after New York state’s mandate took effect requiring healthcare workers get at least one shot by Sept. 27 — included about two dozen leaders at the management level, or above, and represent under 2 percent of Northwell’s employees. With the departures, Northwell is reporting a 100 percent vaccinated workforce”

Third Source Reality Check: FierceHealthcare.com published a list started on Sept 24, 2021, last updated on October 8, 2021 that reports the number of employees that have left 31 hospitals over vaccine mandates.

Fourth Source Reality Check: Kaiser Permanente Sued After Instituting Vaccine Requirement

“USA Today” has a history of spreading incorrect information on social media, especially about issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, in February, 2021, USA Today incorrectly reported that the US CDC was not inflating COVID-19 deaths. They also incorrectly reported that I spread misinformation in a speech I gave in Harrisburg, PA. In reality, USA Today had cited another source of misinformation that had failed to note the date of my speech and who updated their “fact check” after I pointed out to them that they had misunderstood the context of my correct claim on the 21%. The study to which I was referring did, in fact, report a 21% increase in serious adverse events in recipients of the Moderna vaccine. USA Today cited a source that misapplied that rate to another, later study.

Related: About that 21% – Fact-Checkers Take Note (jameslyonsweiler.com)

Reality: Nurses and other ethical medical professionals are leaving unethical medical facilities due to vaccine requirements. Staffing shortages are, in fact, the direct result of vaccine requirements. If conditions in hospitals have now become “unsafe” due to staffing shortages, as has been alleged, the vaccine mandates are the root cause.

POPULAR RATIONALISM RULING: MOSTLY FALSE.

WHAT IS FALSE: USA Today is misleading its readership and the public on the important role of vaccine mandates are having in driving ethical physicians and medical professionals from unethical hospitals who have implemented vaccine requirements as a condition of employment. Also, USA Today failed to report that OSHA has yet to file a final ruling that protects employees from lawsuits over dismissals. To date, OSHA has only published an guidance and an exploratory analysis in the Federal Register.

WHAT IS TRUE: USA Today correctly reported that hospitals put profits before staff safety and patient wellness. The claim “Long before the pandemic, hospitals staffed at bare-bone levels to maximum profit, rather than at the level need to safely care for patients and the severity of their conditions” is true. After the Ebola outbreak of 2014, hospitals were funded to create readiness programs for the eventuality of a major pandemic coming to the United States. They implemented conditional workflows, including patient in/patient out pattern.

The public was asked by the US Government to give healthcare two weeks to get ready for the patients. Early on, we knew which co-morbid conditions meant that a case of COVID-19 was likely to be severe COVID-19. Hospitals have received trillions of dollars in Federal funds. Instead of working on a readiness program for COVID-19, patients who test positive have been sent home to serve as incubators of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These patients have not been informed of readily available, effective protocols for in-home ambulatory care that reduce patient mortality risk.

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**Comment**

A few more reality checks:

The real reason for canceled flights has been met with all kinds of excuses from bad weather to air traffic control problems.  What isn’t being discussed are airline employees walking off the job due to “vaccine” mandates and severe adverse reactions and even deaths of pilots and flight attendants.

“It’s much bigger than people think,” the co-pilot allegedly said.

Not only that, flights are being diverted due to:

  • pilots with chest pains
  • passengers with chest pains forced an emergency landing too
  • a Seattle-based pilot was found dead on his floor from an embolism
  • flight attendants are not returning to active duty in “droves” following their shots; two were found dead after their shots
  • seven Atlanta-based flight attendants have already had breakthrough infections
  • a vaccinated pilot got a breakthrough infection and died of kidney failure
  • reports just keep coming in, with the airlines keeping their communications sealed   Source

US Freedom Fighters is fighting back.  This group of transportation industry employees has been fired for refusing the COVID jab, but have come together to fight mandates which strip citizens of their right to medical freedom. They invite anyone who cherishes freedom to move about the country and the world freely. Go here for video.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/12/21/warning-3150-injuries-in-1st-week-of-covid-vaccines-among-american-healthcare-workers-pregnant-women-included  Mounting list of adverse reactions and deaths

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Fauci Plot to Blow the Vaccine System Up

https://thenewamerican.com/october-2019-cspan-video-shows-fauci-plotting-to-blow-the-vaccine-system-up  (Video Here)

October 2019 CSPAN Video Shows Fauci Plotting To Blow The Vaccine System Up

by Ben Armstrong

Evil Fauci plot exposed! Horrible Department of Defense vaccine numbers are exposed! 2.5 million reported Instances of adverse effects from COVID vaccine affecting 570,000 people and that is the best case scenario! (See link for video)

This video presents a panel discussion hosted by the Milken Institute discussing the need for a Universal Flu Vaccine, that everyone would have to take and would make a huge profit for Big Pharma.  The 1 minute and 51 second dialogue is between moderator, Michael Specter, a journalist who is a New Yorker staff writer and also an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Rick Bright, director of HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

Fauci explains that bringing a new, mRNA vaccine, would take at least a decade, and he would know as he’s been trying to develop an mRNA “vaccine” for HIV for a decade.

Brian Shilhavy digs into the original 1 hour video where the following join Fauci, Specter, and Bright:

  • Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine
  • Bruce Gellin, President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute
  • Casey Wright, CEO, FluLab

They admit the old way of producing vaccines was not sufficient for their purposes, that the annual flu virus was not scary enough to create an event to convince people to take the jab, and that they needed a global event where many people were dying, to be able to roll out a new mRNA “vaccine” to be tested on the public.

By now you know the punch line.

Shilhavy points out the discussion reveals a lot about “public health” including:

  • If they do too good of a job in public health, then they lose funding to develop products.
  • The estimate that 650,000 people die yearly from the flu is a complete guess as there are probably less than 1,000 confirmed laboratory cases of influenza each year in the U.S.
  • Bright complains that the yearly distribution of flu vaccines is inefficient in terms of collecting data, and in the process actually admits that some vaccines just don’t work well:

“We distribute 150 million doses of the seasonal (flu) vaccines every year, we don’t even know how many people are being vaccinated from the doses that are delivered to the people, which doses they got, and what the real outcome was, so that we can learn from that knowledge base on how to optimize or improve our vaccine. So there are opportunities that we have today…

I think if we uncloaked the poorest performing vaccines in the market place today, it might be very revealing to tell us which of the technologies we have, and allow us to go deeper into those technologies to determine why they are more effective. There are vaccine licenses today that are more effective. I think that we’re just afraid to admit the truth.”

So much for vaccines being completely “safe and effective.”
  • The panel discussion can be boiled down to: Nobody wants to fund research for a universal flu vaccine. So how do we change that? Create a pandemic of fear over the flu (but they couldn’t call it the “flu” because people are no longer afraid of influenza, and the fear over “AIDS” had also subsided).
  • Hamburg states that this time it has to be different and the need to really be organized in a way where there will be accountability for sustained action.
  • Fauci also tips his hand was to why he’s opposed to natural immunity. In short, it translates into an immune response against other strains which will interfere with his vaccine agenda.  He wants to jab 6 month old babies with a universal “vaccine” to prevent “confused” natural immunity from happening  before the child grows older.
  •  Wright made a remarkable comment about the need for “philanthropy” as it allows more risk with experimentation and bolder concepts.  Of course this is where the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other “philanthropies” come in as they are free of regulatory issues and have no accountability.
  • Gellin then talks about a report published by his organization that called for an “entity” that would make these decisions and bring everyone together to collaborate to create this universal vaccine, and eliminate those who oppose.

Shilvany states:

This is one of the most explosive videos I have ever watched that takes us into the mindset of the Globalist Tyrants and their greedy desire to control the human race by means of vaccines.

As you watch this, you need to ask yourself: Who appointed these people as caretakers of humanity to decide what is good for the entire human race?  Source

DISCLAIMER: Views and opinions expressed on The Ben Armstrong Show are solely those of the host and do not necessarily represent those of The New American. TNA is not responsible for, and does not verify the accuracy of any information presented.

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Can Pets Harbor Ticks in Winter?

https://danielcameronmd.com/pets-harbor-ticks-in-the-winter/

Can pets harbor ticks, even in the winter?

A dog with ticks sitting in the woods in the winter season.

A recent study utilized TickSpotters, a photograph-based crowdsourced surveillance program to identify a variety of tick species found on domestic pets throughout the year. The findings revealed that ticks, although typically thought to pose a health risk in the spring and summer, are present in colder months, including in the winter.

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In their article, “An analysis of companion animal tick encounters as revealed by photograph-based crowdsourced data,” Kopsco and colleagues found:

“The percentage of reports of ticks found on companion animals is more than doubled in the fall and winter seasons from what was reported in the spring and summer seasons.”¹

Between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018, TickSpotters received  5,132 specimens from domestic animals (stated or assumed to be pets). The majority of ticks were found on dogs or cats.

50% of the ticks had been attached for 2.5 days or longer.

“Prior to uploading a photograph of the specimen to the system, instructions were provided to participants on how to take a photograph of the specimen with a size reference, proper lighting and clear focus to ensure the image highlighting the necessary anatomy to facilitate correct identification by researchers,” the authors write.

A variety of tick species were identified. Blacklegged ticks comprised 4 out of 10 of the tick species. American dog ticks, lone star ticks, and brown dog ticks were also found.

Additional findings:

  • Majority were adult ticks (9 out of 10);
  • 50% of the ticks had been attached for 2.5 days or longer;
  • Nearly 50% of the ticks were found in non-endemic states;

For example, 7.6% were from the East and West south central (AL, KY, MS, TN, AR, LA, OK, TX), 4.6% were from the Mountain area (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY), and 12.9% were from the Pacific area (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA).

  • More than half of the tick bites occurred in the Fall or Winter;

29% of all submissions occurred in the Fall (September-November), while 34% of all ticks  submitted occurred in the Winter months (December-February).

Since the duration of tick attachment on pets was more than 2 days, the authors raised the concern that pets are:

“not being checked regularly or thoroughly enough for ticks, or that owners are less inclined to continue use of effective tick prevention products when they believe tick activity is lower.”

Nearly 50% of the ticks were found in non-endemic states.

The authors also raised a concern for humans.

“A recent survey of pet owners found that people whose pets had a tick encounter within the past 6 months were more likely to encounter a tick themselves.”

“Crowdsourced data reveal that mostly adult ticks are detected on pets, and they are found at a point in the blood-feeding process that puts pets at heightened risk for disease transmission.”

The authors suggest, “Our findings emphasize the importance of more broadly publicizing these ticks’ seasonal activity.”

Related Articles:

Can you get ticks from pets?
Tracking ticks in Canada with digital images
How do Lyme disease vaccines work in dogs?

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**Comment**

And this, right here, is why we never got any more pets after ours died.

I’m no expert but suddenly when I put a tick collar on our elderly dog, his health declined rapidly.  The vet told me it wasn’t the collar, but his skin and hair began falling out until he was left with something that looked like a rat tail.  Shortly after that he died of what appeared to be heart-related.  I always felt like I sent him to his Maker.

In my studies, I’ve looked high and low for a “safe” tick/flea killer for pets, knowing we are at ground zero.  To this day, I don’t believe any of them are safe.  Some are safer than others but I never felt confident in choosing something that worked but was safe.

Knowing that pet owners are at a higher risk of tick bites, we made the hard decision to be a “pet-less” household.

My best advice if you still want pets is to have a good discussion with your veterinarian on all the available products on the market – the pros and the cons.  I know Nootkatone is hopefully going to be available within a year and hopefully will be made into safe animal products.  That is one chemical I remain hopeful about.

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Lyme Advocacy Webinar Oct. 28, 2021

https://www.lymedisease.org/advocacy-webinar-oct28/

TOUCHED BY LYME: Advocacy webinar Oct. 28—register now

Dorothy Kupcha Leland

Oct. 4, 2021

Many people who have Lyme disease themselves—or have a loved one with Lyme—want to do something to change the status quo.

You know what I’m talking about—the current situation that leaves so many Lyme patients in the lurch. Few doctors willing to treat them, little to no Lyme insurance coverage, ineffective tests, denial by public health officials—the list goes on and on.

Can one person make a difference? And if so, where does that one person begin? Well, I have a suggestion.

I recommend you start by registering for the free webinar called Advocacy Q & A, sponsored by Project Lyme. Its goal is to help you learn how to get involved with Lyme advocacy at the federal, state and individual levels. It will be held via Zoom on October 28, at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time (2:30 p.m. Pacific Time).

I’m honored they asked me to participate. I’ll share insights from my 15 years of advocacy with LymeDisease.org, and discuss how the MyLymeData project helps drive patient engagement for healthcare reform.

I’ll be joined by Bonnie Crater, co-founder of the Center for Lyme Action, a group that lobbies in Washington to increase federal funding for Lyme disease. CLA is best known in the Lyme community for its annual Lyme Fly-in. She’ll tell us all how to get involved with 2022’s event.

Also on the panel will be Holiday Goodreau, Executive Director of the LivLyme Foundation and co-creator of the free global app Tick Tracker. She was recently named as co-chair of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Like me, she’s the mother of a daughter with Lyme.

Click here to register.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s Director of Communications. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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Amish Have Herd Immunity By Defying Everything the Government Says

October 12, 2021

https://fullmeasure.news/news/shows/amish-covid  (News Video Here)

Amish Covid

By FULL MEASURE STAFF Sunday, October 10th 2021
Excerpts of article:

Lapp: “There’s three things the Amish don’t like. And that’s government— they won’t get involved in the government, they don’t like the public education system— they won’t send their children to education, and they also don’t like the health system. They rip us off. Those are three things that we feel like we’re fighting against all the time. Well, those three things are all part of what Covid is.”

Lapp says they weren’t denying coronavirus, they were facing it head on.

Nolt: I know of some cases in which Amish people refused to go to the hospital, even when they were very sick because if they went there, they wouldn’t be able to have visitors. And it was more important to be sick, even very sick at home and have the ability to have some people around you than to go to the hospital and be isolated.

Then, last March, remarkable news. The Lancaster County Amish were reported to be the first community to achieve “herd immunity,” meaning a large part of a population had been infected with Covid-19 and became immune.

One thing’s clear: there’s no evidence of any more deaths among the Amish than in places that shut down tight— some claim there were fewer here. That’s without masking, staying at home, or another important measure.

By staying open, the Amish here have one tangible 2020 accomplishment few others can claim.

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**Comment**

I love it when the little guy wins.

The Amish, like Sweden, and parts of India, defied what corrupt public health officials have tyrannically mandated and not only lived to tell the tale, but thrived beyond all the nay-sayer’s expectations.

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