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Against Their Will: The Immorality of Hospital-Forced Nurse Mandates
America relies on hospitals. When faced with catastrophe we expect them to have the best medical advice and best trained personnel.
Increasingly, hospital administrators advance official vaccine narratives and NIH protocols while ignoring often sound advice that might be contradictory.
Our nation’s response to COVID-19 has bankrupted businesses, severed relationships, and placed our economy on a path to potential stagflation. We see these same responses beginning to infect choices at our nations’ premier health institutions.
As of this writing over 214 hospitals and health systems are mandating employees get vaccinated over threat of losing their jobs. Is this extreme action justified?1
Recently I interviewed nurses who had decided against taking the COVID-19 vaccines. All agree that universal vaccinations are premature, can do potential long-term harm, and in most cases are unnecessary.
Unlike their media portrayal, front line, laboratory, and healthcare workers are not anti-vaxxers nor extremists. Most get regular flu vaccinations. They have all cared for COVID-19 patients receive exemplary performance reviews and consider themselves well-informed on both sides of the vaccine debate.
The hospitals they work for are part of Catholic affiliated Common Spirit Health, the nation’s largest non-profit health system. According to their literature, Common Spirit champions the common good and advocates for the poor and vulnerable.
Many of their staff would disagree these qualities are applied equally.
Within days of Common Spirit announcing they were mandating vaccines under threat of job loss, an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 workers applied for an exemption.
According to one 20-year veteran RN, “we suspected this was coming, but couldn’t believe they would just dump us over the vaccine. It was humiliating after all we have done to help.”
When their records system crashed many waited up to a month to learn if their application was accepted. The process was devastating.
A unit nurse confided, “The ordeal took a toll on my spouse and our kids. We didn’t know how we would pay our bills. Our kids saw we were afraid and that made them afraid.”
The pressure to get vaccinated was enormous.
At one point a letter from the Franciscan Ministries circulated proposing that vaccines are the ministry “opportunity of our times” and getting vaccinated was “an act of love...” Regardless of intentions, it was pure propaganda. The note warned that, “Autonomy is not absolute because we have a shared responsibility toward one another.”2
That responsibility did not appear to extend to those rejecting the vaccine. Those who were denied religious exemption opened their emails to find this icy note:
Dear ____,
After careful review, in alignment with our mission and values, your request for a religious exemption, as an accommodation from the COVID vaccine requirement, is denied, as it does not meet the necessary criteria or presents an undue burden to the business.”
“I have had ‘excellent+’ ratings on every performance review,” said a lab technician. “How dare they say I am a ‘burden to the business.’”3
Initially HCWs were told there would be no appeals. If their request was denied they would be placed in a “jeopardized position” and work until a replacement could be found at which time they would be terminated.
The administration did reverse course allowing the ‘denied’ to submit a verification form. Even this was handled poorly.
“We had to send a letter verifying why we want a religious exemption,” an assistant said. “We had already been through this. It was insulting and demeaning.”
While some finally received the exemption, the damage Common Spirit created may be irreparable.
One nurse noted, “the trust is gone. I love my patients and my co-workers, but I don’t know if I can ever trust Common Spirit again.”
Others were frustrated with the shifting work culture:
A nurse who had worked through the worst of the pandemic, told me, “After the mandates were announced, things began to change. Workplace divisions grew. Some took the vaccine because they believed in them, a lot were afraid to lose their jobs. We have learned not to talk about it.”
More than a dozen workers agreed that what “we are seeing in the hospitals is not what is being reported in the media. Common Spirit is buying whatever the FDA and CDC say. They are not collaborating for the Common Good.”
“One patient had thrombocytopenia, (a disease that reduces the blood’s clotting ability.) They had been in remission for years. Days after receiving the vaccine the patient was hospitalized with the most severe case they had ever experienced. The patient told the staff, “I don ‘t understand. The only thing that changed is I took the vaccine. Could the vaccine have caused this?” The doctors ignored the comment. The case was never entered in VAERS as an adverse effect of the vaccine.”
In one nurse’s words, “I go by records. I saw lungs, legs, arms, with blood clots two weeks after testing positive. Now we are seeing the same thing after the vaccines, and they don’t even have COVID. If they do have COVID, but the vaccine hides the symptoms, that is even worse.”
Their biggest frustration is that the administration and many doctors are so engulfed in FDA and CDC releases, media censorship, and slanted studies they do not see what is really going on. It is becoming clear the vaccines are not as safe and effective as initially thought.
Data that opposes the official narrative is labeled anti-vax or misinformation. Many feel leadership is too blinded to see past this. They want the hospital administration to be more open to ideas and stop promoting mandates until a more thorough investigation is completed.
To start that conversation here are several valid reports that reveal a different side of the vaccines and the agencies that promote them.
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