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when fire season gets here.

In OH 60% of the workers in nursing homes have also rejected getting the vaccine.

aren't showing up for their second shot. These are the health care workers who got their first shots and didn't come back.
It's subjective and I don't know how many. But, it made me sad.

a friend who is a nurse and knows of nurses who refuse to get flu shots. Don’t know how they keep their jobs.

It really should be a requirement of employment EVERYWHERE

at our local small hospital. She is the vaccine coordinator. A few days ago she told me only 60% of the staff had been vaccinated. They have plenty of doses. I was shocked to hear this, I mean why wouldn't an RN at a hospital want to be vaccinated? But I didn't know all the facts.

The real story is this is planned. They are being vaccinated in stages for a very good reason. They could have done everybody in one day, it's a small hospital. But because of the risk of reactions to the vaccine, they didn't want to have too many of the staff out sick, even if only for a few days. Now they have seen than only a tiny bit had any reaction to it. But they are still proceeding with caution.

So I wonder if some reporter saw the numbers (which are curiously similar to my daughter's hospital) and jumped to a conclusion like I did without fully investigating the situation and talking to the people in charge of the program. Just a thought.

is some follow-up.

with flu shots at the hospital is in the upper 90s percentile. There are a few who have genuine allergies or religious restrictions to that vaccine. Their policy is, don't get the vaccine, wear a mask every minute you are on hospital grounds. I worked there as a volunteer and I would, during the course of the day, see one or two people wearing masks. There are very few anti-vaxers among hospital workers. I'm not familiar with the firefighter culture.

1 out of the 3 is crazy over the top right wing and racist. Much like the percentage you see with cops. He's retired now.

I was not surprised when I heard they arrested that retired firefighter for throwing a fire extinguisher at cops at the Capitol. I thought of my crazed relative and was relieved it wasn't him.

Google racism at fire stations. There are a lot of right wing racist macho white guys who comprise the ranks of firefighters. They have made life hell for Black and female firefighters. It's disgusting.

I wish they would let us folks in the community have the vaccines they're not using.

What a waste!

The vaccines will be used on health care workers in the coming days. They are not being wasted.

I didn't say the vaccines were wasted. What these firefighters did in blowing off their vaccinations is inexcusable and pathetic.

Healthcare workers can already get vaccines, they were first to get them. It's the rest of us that could use them here in LA, especially if we happen to need the services one of those 40% of firefighters who won't get vaccinated.

I thought you were talking about the hospital situation I described. I can't speak about the specifics of the firefighter situation, because I don't know if they may be vaccinating their personnel in stages like they are doing at the hospital.

The biggest problem we have now is the disappearing federal stockpile. I'm worried the second shot won't be available for some who got the first one. Oh, well, we are three days from better federal management of the supply. I still think Kushner was selling it in the Middle East while he was over there in recent weeks and pocketing the money. One last grift.