I think this means that the maternity ward will close for now and women in labor will be routed to other hospitals. The whole ward will “pause”. 

Ugh. I really don’t get the healthcare workers who’d rather quit than get the COVID vaccine, which is highly safe AND effective. My husband’s cousin is one of those healthcare workers - a nurse practitioner with a Master’s in Nursing. She used to assist with doing open heart surgery on babies. She isn’t dumb but…

Not only should they not be allowed to work in medicine anymore, given their higher duty of care, I firmly believe they’ve forfeited their right to live in society. The U.S. must have tons of barely inhabitable islands off its coasts. Give them a tent and a box of matches and leave them on one of those.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I think it’s less about “freedom” for some people than about some weirdass mix of irrational belief in their own invulnerability and perhaps PTSD, mixed with a strangely macho working environment. My mom was an OR nurse for most of her career, and she worked in ER before that. She smoked until several years ago, and…

Exactly. And I still don’t get it.

My Ex was/is an Operating Room nurse. Supposedly an educated, health conscious person, and so were her co-workers.

I hope the people at the unemployment offices get pictures of their Surprised Pikachu faces when they realize they can’t get benefits if they quit their jobs.

Reading various stories about similar issues, nurses and most hospital staff are required to have current and up-to-date vaccination and immunization cards on hire and regularly. It's not new. It's part of the job. 

I delivered my kid pre-vaccine and the only reason it wasn’t completely terrifying was my confidence that all the medical staff at my hospital here in Toronto were doing everything possible to keep me safe.

I keep asking myself: “How many of them got a flu shot because the hospital mandated it? How are the COVID-19 vaccines any different?” Then I remember that COVID-19 has been politicized to the extreme and these supposed health care workers refuse to get on board with protecting the people they’re supposed to be helping…

Who would want an unvaccinated worker anywhere near their vulnerable newborn?  Good riddance.

I don’t care. Nothing Biden says is going to not sound bad to people whose entire political philosophy at this point is “own the libs.” I’m sick of people worrying and worrying about how people who are never going to operate on bad faith are going to receive things Dems and liberals say. I cannot imagine…

Yeah, the weirdo argument here seems to be that people won’t trust the “drastic measures” the government’s taking because those measures weren’t taken before—when they would have probably been seen as even more drastic? But at the same time, these new measures are the basic minimum a government should take? Okay,…

Antivax sentiment in the US predates the US itself. Our very first vaccine mandate was instituted by George Washington during the Revolutionary War. The Brits had mandatory inoculation against smallpox; revolutionary fighters saw it as a “European thing” they didn’t need. We were losing the war at first in part…

To someone who is anti vax, at this point, nothing is going to sound good to them. They booed trump at the mere suggestion that maybe they could use their freedom to possibly think that getting vaccinated isn’t the worst idea. They can all get bent at this point.

Well said. 

The quality of analysis here has really tanked since the days of Lindy and company. So many bad takes.

We were always going to get to this point. Every epidemic in US history that has ended was ended with mandatory vaccinations.

Are you blaming Biden for the Tuskegee experiments?

Antivaxxers and antimaskers are not “a…

The threat of prosecution alone would be a major deterrent. But there’s precedent from the Civil Rights era, and the law is based on the original Klu Klux Klan Act from the 1800s.

Lawrence Tribe has been pitching the idea of having the DOJ prosecute anyone filing suit under the Texas law. Federal law would allow this, believe it or not, because of the provision that makes it a crime to deprive someone else of their constitutional rights: