The vaccine conundrum and the Mayo Clinic: Why do 700 employees prefer to lose their jobs rather than be vaccinated?

American Thinker ^ | 01/11/2022 | Matt Dean

[SeekAndFind]

This week, some 700 unvaccinated Mayo Clinic employees lost their jobs because they did not agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine or did not receive a medical or religious exemption. In addition, an unknown number of Mayo employees have already quit or retired to avoid being fired. The move comes as hospitals throughout the country struggle with a surge in hospital admissions combined with severe staff shortages.

Mayo, like many corporations, is between a rock and a hard place due to President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate. They have been put in a uniquely difficult position because their multistate clinic is often relied upon to develop and promote government public health policy.

For decades, Mayo has provided trusted medical advice to the country and world. At a time when public trust in the federal government’s ability to lead the pandemic recovery has eroded, we would all benefit from Mayo’s leadership in realizing that they made a mistake in terminating these frontline workers.

Like many local elected officials, Minnesota state Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R-21B) began hearing from constituents who faced a real conundrum: get vaccinated or get fired. Drazkowski’s constituents are some of the 47,500 employees of the Mayo Clinic, his state’s largest employer.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Conatus survival instincts. Next question? LOL
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I had forgotten that word and its meaning. I do recall Spinoza in his Ethics had something to say about it.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I wholeheartedly support your freedom to choose not to see a first world doctor or hospital. It makes no difference to me.
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Of course!

[Trillian]

Because they know it’s a death sentence.

[so_real]

"each thing, as far as it lies in itself, strives to persevere in its being" -- Spinoza

The definition of "hero", to my way of thinking, has always been one who sets aside conatus at great risk to himself for the benefit of another. As the snowflake liberals go about redefining words for their personal benefit, we should make a list of all the greater meanings being lost to our progeny.

[Usually_Disappointed]

And the vast, vast majority of those Mayo employees chose to get vaccinated.

To keep their job. Why do we ignore the incentive as if it isn't important?

[Catholic and Conservative]

The article says "Employees who suggested that their discomfort was with the use of fetal cells in the testing of vaccines were warned that medications such as aspirin, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine also had been tested with fetal cells."

Someone is attempting to mislead Mayo Clinic employees.

Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955. Aspirin has been used for more than 100 years. They were certainly not developed using fetal cells. As far as I've been able to determine, the safety and efficacy of Ivermectin was established using animal and bacterial studies in the 1970's and human testing in the early '80s. [1,2,3]

[AustinBill]

Yup. I'd like to see Biden dare to try to shut down the Mayo Clinic for not bending the knee to his unconstitutional diktat.

[Svartalfiar]

In US health care workers In general, vaccine refusal goes up as educational/professional level decreases.

Funny thing, the "vaccine" refusal rates also go way up as people get excessive education.

[Svartalfiar]

The 700 are looking at the chance to move to something without taxable income while still having a very good chance at a big check for not working.

What are you talking about here? UI? Only some of that is not taxed ($10M per year maybe), although I don't know if they've made that allowance for this year yet.

What big check? Severance? I doubt they'll get that if they were fired. UI? UI is only a portion of your previous wages, and is limited by every State. Texas is one of the more generous ones, and it maxes out at $521 a week, if you were making at least ~$50M a year. That's not a "big check". And several of the red States don't even allow you to pull UI if you were fired for "vaccine" refusal.

[Retphys]

Sadly I couldn’t find anything more recent, but as of a June 2021 survey, 96% of
Practicing US physicians were vaccinated.
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-survey-shows-over-96-doctors-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-19

This one is older (March 2021] but points up the differences
“ During March 2021, 300 LTCFs reported COVID-19 vaccination coverage for their HCP. COVID-19 vaccination coverage was highest among physicians (75.1%) and lowest among aides (45.6%). Vaccination coverage among aides was lower in facilities located in zip code areas with higher levels of social vulnerability.”
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7030a2.htm