Time is running out. So many citizens are being pushed into a corner, coerced into making critical short- and long-term health decisions with wildly conflicting information while simultaneously facing imminent job loss. The mandates are having a broad ripple effect on other parts of society with many negative consequences.
Meanwhile, many Idaho legislators sit idle saying “we need to take a wait-and-see attitude and see how this new mandate plays out……….” Elections have consequences. Are you sharing your personal stories with your legislators?
Contact Your Legislator RIGHT AWAY and tell them you expect their participation in protecting the citizens – those they were hired to represent! Wednesday, September 15, 2021, Idaho Legislators will be reconvening to represent the people in this time-sensitive manner! Will Your Legislator be there?
Our local media was so concerned that people might hear from a minority, they tried to spread the word that the memorial/vigil for those who have been injured or killed from the jab has been canceled. That was a lie. These talking heads don’t want you to know about these numbers and hear from the victims themselves.
This event was well attended by compassionate individuals who wanted to honor the pain and suffering of others. And even with threats from a representative of the Anne Frank Memorial to call the police and several disrespectful hecklers, the event proceeded peacefully.
This event is NOT a protest. This is a memorial designed to honor the voice of those who are trying to speak out but are being intentionally silenced and ridiculed by much of the public. We were heckled. How IRONIC that it was a Human Rights Memorial representative was disruptive and threatened to call the police on this peaceful gathering.
a visual display created by local high schoolers. Each flower represents 100 lives lost or injured by the vaccine.
HFI hosted an event in Boise that the city attempted to silence with threats of calling the police. Truth prevailed!! We hosted an event ON PUBLIC PROPERTY that backs to the Human Rights Memorial. This event was to honor those who suffered injury and death.
We gathered today because of tragedy. Individuals who did what we have all be told to do, for our own safety and for the benefit of others, suffered disastrous results. Children are now without their mother, a man without the ability to walk. Teens and formerly healthy young adults now have lifelong heart conditions. Individuals are dead and damaged by an experimental medical product. And our communities and cities, instead of providing support and compassion have ignored – worse yet, ridiculed these families for speaking bout the injury they suffered.
In fact, we are outside the Human Rights Memorial because the city of Boise and those who maintain the Human Rights Memorial felt that the voices of the minority shouldn’t be heard. Those quotes you read in the memorial are there because someone felt it significant to hear from the victims and to learn from the tragedy.
How ironic Boise and those who manage the Human Rights Memorial are attempting to discriminate and silence us today. Threats to call the police in addition to having their volunteers stand behind the speakers, who have suffered from loss and permanent injury, in an attempt to mock them.
We came to acknowledge that more than 15,000 deaths nationwide have been reported. To give voice to the almost 21,000 people who are now struggling to live life with a permanent disability and the 12,000 whose hearts went from healthy to diseased After their jab. To all those who have said we shouldn’t have a memorial like this because there are 2000 Idahoans who died from COVID In the past 18 months. We want to also recognize there have been 2000 who reported having suffered from vaccine reactions in the past 9 months.
Honoring the suffering and pain of one individual does NOT deny the pain of another. There is enough pain to go around- what we are lacking is compassion.
HFI Response to those who think a memorial for the victims of vaccines is inappropriate
Those who have suffered Injury because of COVID vaccines are suffering pain AND RIDICULE. Today, I hope they felt honored. Let them know they are seen, they are heard, they are believed. #choosecompassion#Respect#solidarity
Video will be provided soon.
One flower represents 100 individuals whose hearts went from healthy to diseased after the shot.Each lavender rose represents 100 people who now have to live with a permanent disability. The small flowers in the vase represent 100 preborn children who died after their pregnant moms received the vaccine.Data for 9/17
one week increased of death, injury and suffering from the vaccine
We pray that those who are suffering and injured know that they are seen. heard. believed.
Is a mask similar to wearing a bike helmet? I am seeing way too many analogies from pro-mask parents, saying that they are just like bike helmets, seat belts or steel-capped boots. This is nonsense. Let’s talk about the medical aspects of mask-wearing, not the peripheral aspects of social distancing, isolation, etc.
If you wear a surgical mask or a homemade mask of cotton …, especially in an enclosed space with other people, like a classroom or bus, this is what happens:
1) the air heats up and humidity rises. The mask rapidly becomes moist with your breath and as a result, the viruses, bacteria, and fungi which accumulate on the outside have a nice culture medium to grow in, and which can be breathed in, as you force air through the moist mess.
2) Constantly touching, or shifting the mask to attend to itches, or general discomfort contaminates the mask with anything on your fingers.
3) you start rebreathing your own carbon dioxide, which results in making your blood acidic. This can result in kidney dysfunction among a long list of other health issues well-proven and discussed in the medical literature.
4) your intake of oxygen is reduced and your brain doesn’t function as it should. These factors have been extensively discussed in the medical literature because those effects are even seen in the theatre when surgeons wear surgical masks, which cannot stop viruses but are principally there to prevent surgeons from splashes of blood from the patient and putting any droplet onto the patient. Because this is an issue in theatres, for both nurses and doctors when surgeons and nurses wear masks, this is what OSH has set up.
a) extra oxygen must be pumped INTO theatre to compensate for the oxygen decrease in breathing
b) the air pressure in theatre is negative which means that while oxygen is being pumped INTO theatre, the air in the theatre is pumped OUT of the room so that no air recirculates which keeps the air clean, so generally, air is pumped in from underneath and sucked out through the ceiling.
c) The humidity is also kept very low so that the surgeons can stay as sweat-free as possible, and the mask lasts longer.
d) Temperature is low and controlled.
e) because of breath moisture getting trapped in the fabric, the minute a mask becomes damp, that results in any virus or bacteria being trapped there, and becoming a Petrie dish.
It’s inevitable that breathing in through fabric will force some of that accumulating moisture with multiplying bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc, into your mouth resulting in infection, THEREFORE in theatre, the MINUTE a mask becomes even slightly moist, it is changed out and a new dry one put on. So a surgeon can go through a lot of masks during one operation. And if you are wondering why surgeons emerge from theatre and the first thing they do is rip the mask off, it’s because the very act of wearing a mask is incredibly tiring.
Surgeons hate wearing them, not for any of the above reasons, but because you end up touching your face to relieve the tickles and itches, or adjusting them because they are not comfortable. Masks are a distraction and a thought impediment…
Nowhere do I see any suggestions that buses, classrooms, or other enclosed spaces should be subject to the OSH regulations designed to keep surgeons safe. So essentially they are saying that children can do what surgeons can’t and that in an uncontrolled environment, masks are perfectly safe. Masks are not safe, and it’s also ludicrous to expect children to observe the sorts of hygiene requirements that surgeons have been trained to adhere to. And we aren’t even talking about the fact that cloth masks and surgical masks don’t stop infection – which is the government message of masking up. As far as I know, none of the above apply to bike helmets, car seat belts or steel-capped boots.
None of those things is an irritant, and neither do they change, in ANY way, the biochemical balance in the body or have the potential to result in serious staph skin infections, and an increase in respiratory pathogens as a result of breathing through the developing Petrie dish in front of your face. Masks have the potential to create serious issues for adults and children. Next time you go to buy that $52.00 box of masks make sure you read the warning on the side of the box that says that these masks cannot protect you from covid. And please rethink these faulty analogies, because it’s vital that people understand the facts so that they can avoid cognitive assumptions and biases.
On September 1st, 2021, I am being forced on a 28-day unpaid suspension, and ultimately, I will be terminated on October 28th due to the hospital’s decision to force experimental vaccines without any long-term testing on all staff, volunteers, and vendors in the healthcare system.
In 30 days, I will be forced to walk away from the profession I have given my life and my heart to for the last ten years. I’m walking away from the only “big girl” job I’ve ever known. I’m walking away from my pharmacy tech position to which I have sacrificed years of my life. Sleeping at the hospital, continuing education, extra hours worked. I’ll never get any of that back.
I’m walking away because I refuse to allow someone to put something that I don’t want into my body, not through bribery, force, or coercion.
I’m walking away because it’s what’s best for myself and my family. I’m walking away because “healthcare” has become a discriminatory, ugly beast.
I didn’t sign up for this. The healthcare I began my career in was night and day different than this. We were blind to choices made by our patients that brought them to us.
We are not God, judge, or jury. We are healing hands.
I will walk away because it’s a lesson my child needs to see.
That his momma gave it her all and still lost. AND THAT ITS OK TO LOSE. He will see what mountains one voice can shake. He will see those mountains move with lots of voices. He will see those mountains crumble with an army of voices. He will learn; his singular voice is capable of amazing things.
I will walk away with my head held high. I will own this with resolve to move forward. Although my life and heart have been given back in pieces, I will gather those pieces and walk away. I’ll put those pieces together and create something new.
I’ll rely on the friends I have made in this fight. I’ll rely on my family for the days when the fight seems to be too great. But I will walk away knowing I have an army of people behind me.
I will walk away. I will do it on my terms. Head held high. Full of pride for giving my all to this fight. Full of pride because I will always tell my son I STOOD UP FOR WHAT WAS RIGHT FOR ME.
One of many stories from our healthcare heroes who are being denied informed consent and bodily autonomy by the very industry that should have those concepts held in the highest regard. These words are taken from a public post on facebook. These healthcare workers can see that with only 1% of the damages reported there is a risk that can cause permanent damage. A job is temporary. Death is permanent. Disability is permanent. Where there is risk there must be a choice.
After months of support and encouragement from Health Freedom Idaho, the newly founded Take A Stand Now organization decided to publicly distance itself from our support. They cited a difference in “ideas of activism” as the reason for distancing, and insinuated that a literature drop in Senator Winder’s neighborhood had damaged their “integrity.”
Health Freedom Idaho has been active and working diligently to gain ground for health freedom in Idaho for over five years. We have fought for the rights of healthcare workers and all Idahoans to informed consent and bodily autonomy before most even knew they needed to be defended. We have educated ourselves and applied different tactics over the years to build our successful non-profit organization and gain traction politically. In our experience, we have found “access” politics to be a waste of time and effort. It’s a trap set by the elected to make you feel essential but gets absolutely nothing accomplished.
We have learned that politicians will make you feel like you can accomplish something because you’ve had access to them and their time. They will use diversion tactics with “busy work” that has the illusion of progress. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking, and eventually, they wear you out, and time runs out. You are left spinning your wheels trying to earn a living with less time and energy while trying to preserve your liberty. Then, they will claim they have nothing to offer but crumbs. A compromise isn’t a win, it’s not even close to liberty, but they have worn you down and you accept it since it seems better than nothing.
On the other hand, confrontational politics is one of the tools that we credit for our successes. We hold our elected accountable for their votes and decisions while educating their constituents on how these actions affect them. The elected will always be concerned about keeping their power and money.
If the lobbyists’ influence is stronger and louder than the peoples’ voices, we will lose. Freedom loses.
When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
It is unfortunate that TASN fell for the division tactics of Senator Winder and has allowed their powerful voices to be silenced. This is the ‘divide and conquer’ tactic that has always worked with politicians to thwart liberty. We have seen it time and again in our state and in other states.
HFI has had nothing to gain by providing assistance, experience, and support to TASN, other than winning more health freedom in Idaho.
Long-term legislators like Speaker Bedke and Senator Winder have everything to gain by dividing TASN from the largest health freedom activism group in Idaho. They want to keep their control and assure that our unity of voice won’t be louder than IACI (the master they serve).
While TASN continues down the path of access politics, HFI will continue literature drops and respectfully educating the constituents of the politicians who are selling their freedom for money and power.
Holding politicians accountable is the duty of We The People. This is how you defend the Republic!
While we do find their public statement and press release in poor taste, we will NOT hold it against them. On the contrary, we will continue to support health freedom for the entire state, including our healthcare communities. We don’t hold grudges.
Take a Stand Now – if you would like to apologize and unite to defend informed consent and bodily autonomy, we will work together on a stronger, louder, and united front for freedom.
Health Freedom Idaho’s Response to Take a Stand Now
The morbidity risk for children of the virus is nearly zero. Still, schools are attempting to mandate masks with some giving options to opt-out with a doctor’s note. Here is an example of an exemption note obtained for a child that was used successfully in a school situation.
To Whom It May Concern:
Child’s Name has been under my chiropractic care for a number of years. I care for his spinal integrity and nerve system optimization. Having an unobstructed nerve system allows him to better adapt to his environment and function at his best.
The child’s name is a curious young man, full of wonder. He has a terrific sense of humor and he isn’t afraid to ask deep questions. I believe, with his mother’s corroboration, that he is quite at ease in my office because he knows what to expect and I eliminate as many stressors that may hinder his comfort. Otherwise, he can act inattentive and become easily distracted.
In 2020, Child’s Name underwent a psychoeducational evaluation that revealed that he has some challenges with language processing which are impacting his ability to complete classwork to his full potential. Furthermore, he demonstrated relative weakness with making sound/symbol (auditory/visual) and visual recall associations for spelling and reading. These difficulties, concludes the evaluator, are indicative of an auditory, visual, and kinesthetic integration challenge.
Apparently, Child’s Name’s scores were below average on one selective attention task and one dual attention task, and very low on single attention tasks. These combined results indicate that he has features of ADHD, combined presentation. He also has underlying processing difficulties that make academics, especially writing, very laborious for him and create fatigue, inattention, and overactive motor tendencies.
Child’s Name’s parents are concerned, with reason, about the effects that wearing a mask will have on Child’s Name’s academics and social development/engagement. Social engagement depends on how well we can regulate the muscles of our faces and heads via pathways linking the cortex with the brainstem. These are the muscles that give expression to our faces, allow us to gesture with our heads, put intonation with our voices, direct our gaze, and permit us to distinguish human voices from background sounds.
The neural regulation of the muscles of the face and head influences how someone perceives the engagement behavior of others. Absent facial expressions, and especially in someone who already exhibits learning, processing, and social challenges, may cause compromised emotional regulation and limited, spontaneous social engagement.
Should Child’s Name be forced to wear a mask while at school, we may likely see a further decline in his ability to learn and to exhibit adaptive and social behaviors?
Child’s Name’s parents are very well informed about the current health situation/crisis in which we find ourselves. They go to great lengths to ensure that Child’s Name eats well, gets plenty of clean water, exercises, and rests. I believe that Child’s Name’s nerve system and subsequent ability to learn would be enhanced if he was allowed to attend school without having to wear a mask. To ask this child to wear a mask while in school would very likely impact his ability to learn, to interact with others, and to continue to develop socially.
Health Freedom Idaho is sponsoring an historic bipartite event on the morning of September 11th at Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. Following a moment of silence and prayer led by Pastor Tim Remington in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, a panel discussion will ensue between state and local leaders regarding the grave potential for Covid-19 vaccine mandates, and the intersection of various Constitutional, God-given, business and other rights that these mandates either infringe upon or enforce. The panel discussion will be followed by a Town Hall style Q&A session- engaging the citizens’ voices, which have largely been ignored.
The Covid-19 pandemic and executive health department imposed lockdowns, coupled with ever-expanding mandates have summarily expunged American citizens’ rights and responsibilities to take an active role in their own governance. For 18 months, a litany of rights- Constitutional rights; God-given rights; business rights; and purported community rights to be free from illness- have been placed at intersecting odds with one another.
Health Freedom Idaho is setting the record straight. Join us.
Date: Saturday, September 11th, 2021
Location: Candlelight Christian Fellowship 5725 N Pioneer Dr, Coeur D Alene, ID 83815
Time:
Panel Discussion 09:00 am to 10:30 am
Intermission 10:30 am to 11:00 pm
Citizen Town Hall Q&A 11:00 pm to 12:00 pm
For questions or comments, please call or text the Health Freedom North Idaho hotline: 208-956-0721
This is a response to a recent Health District Board Meeting by a local Idahoan:
Thank you, Mr Labrador, for addressing the issue with the CDC making baseless, anti-science recommendations. The CDC has lost a great deal of respect over this issue. It is wise to not follow suit. However, while addressing this issue Mr. Ladrador also uses CDC proclamations to make a point that the unvaccinated are responsible for hospital admissions. This is very misleading. Please, educate yourselves on how the vaccinated are being classified under CDC standards.
The CDC states, “In general, people are considered fully vaccinated: ±
2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or
2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine
If you don’t meet these requirements, regardless of your age, you are NOT fully vaccinated.
Keep taking all precautions until you are fully vaccinated.”
Therefore, those who are not “fully vaccinated” AND outside the prescribed two-week vaccination window, are counted as unvaccinated. This is deceptive.
Why can’t the CDC be transparent and add a third category of partially vaccinated if they do not wish to categorize a vaccinated person who is under two weeks post-vaccine? How do we know that newly vaccinated people are not the patients currently admitted to the hospital? After all, we are using an old vaccine for a variant it was not designed to protect against.
Secondly, the CDC stopped counting vaccine breakthrough cases in May 2021. *cases of COVID in the vaccinated.
This was roundly criticized by scientists and doctors. Many shared the same concern in neglecting to follow the real data and ensure we are protecting our most vulnerable population. If the vaccine cannot stop transmission, how can we protect the vulnerable? Will we create more variants with a leaky vaccine and will these strains negatively impact our children?
Thirdly, data collected is year-to-date. This is a major issue in that the CDC is muddying the data by counting unvaccinated persons before the vaccine was widely administered.
“Two-thirds of 2021 cases and 80 percent of deaths came before April 1, when only 15 percent of the country was fully vaccinated, which means calculating year-to-date ratios means possibly underestimating the prevalence of breakthrough cases by a factor of three and breakthrough deaths by a factor of five. And if the ratios are calculated using data sets that end before the Delta surge, as many have been, that adds an additional distortion, since both breakthrough cases and severe illness among the vaccinated appear to be significantly more common with this variant than with previous ones.” Confounding the issue by ignoring these problems does not impart confidence among the public.
The CDC’s failure to track and monitor this requires us to look at other countries with large vaccine administration. Are countries with high vaccine uptake like Israel fairing better than us? A report showed that “ Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection.”
Many of us have recovered and the public is benefiting from our robust immunity against the Delta variant and future covid strains.
Lastly, I encourage the board to reflect on their impact on the local community. The impression in the community over the last year was that CDH was unorganized, parroting misleading CDC guidance. Many of you do not have medical credentials and the best you can do is look to professionals for input. As we have seen, science is always changing.
Today’s guidance is based on fleeting data that will be updated and evolving tomorrow. Do you really feel comfortable making definitive proclamations based on rapidly changing data? The public has access to the same information you do. We can make decisions for ourselves.
Please, consider slowing down on your recommendations and recognize your limitations. Perhaps your next announcement can address your new restriction of power to an advisory role in House Bill 316.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html) COVID-19 Vaccination COVID-19 vaccines protect against COVID-19. Get safety info and more.
Saturday, September 25, 2021, 10:00 a.m. just BEHIND the Anne Frank Memorial on the grass by the greenbelt Health Freedom Idaho hosted speakers who have suffered injury from the vaccine. With a beautiful mural created by local high school students to help us visualize the actual number of lives that are being affected by the vaccine itself.
We will honor the victims with a moment of silence and the opportunity for silent prayer.
Our local media was so concerned that people might hear from a minority, they tried to spread the word that the memorial/vigil for those who have been injured or killed from the jab has been canceled. That was a lie. These talking heads don’t want you to know about these numbers and hear from the victims themselves.
This event was well attended by compassionate individuals who wanted to honor the pain and suffering of others. And even with threats from a representative of the Anne Frank Memorial to call the police and several disrespectful hecklers, the event proceeded peacefully.
a visual display created by local high schoolers. Each flower represents 100 lives lost or injured by the vaccine.
HFI hosted an event in Boise that the city and/or those who maintain the Human Rights Memorial attempted to silence with threats of calling the police. Truth prevailed!! We hosted an event ON PUBLIC PROPERTY that backs to the Human Rights Memorial. This event was to honor those who suffered injury and death, not a protest.
We gathered today because of tragedy. Individuals who did what we have all be told to do, for our own safety and for the benefit of others, suffered disastrous results. Children are now without their mother, a man without the ability to walk. Teens and formerly healthy young adults now have lifelong heart conditions. Individuals are dead and damaged by an experimental medical product. And our communities and cities, instead of providing support and compassion have ignored – worse yet, ridiculed these families for speaking bout the injury they suffered.
In fact, we are outside the Human Rights Memorial because the city of Boise and those who maintain the Human Rights Memorial felt that the voices of the minority shouldn’t be heard. Those quotes you read in the memorial are there because someone felt it significant to hear from the victims and to learn from the tragedy.
How ironic Boise and those who manage the Human Rights Memorial are attempting to discriminate and silence us today. Threats to call the police. Having their volunteers stand behind the speakers who have suffered from loss and permanent injury, in an attempt to mock them.
We came to acknowledge that more than 15,000 deaths nationwide have been reported. To give voice to the almost 21,000 people who are now struggling to live life with a permanent disability and the 12,000 whose hearts went from healthy to diseased After their jab. To all those who have said we shouldn’t have a memorial like this because there are 2000 Idahoans who died from COVID In the past 18 months. We want to also recognize there have been 2000 who reported having suffered from vaccine reactions in the past 9 months.
Honoring the suffering and pain of one individual does NOT deny the pain of another. There is enough pain to go around- what we are lacking is compassion.
HFI RESPONSE TO THOSE WHO THINK A MEMORIAL FOR THE VICTIMS OF VACCINES IS INAPPROPRIATE
Those who have suffered Injury because of COVID vaccines are suffering pain AND RIDICULE. Today, I hope they felt honored. Let them know they are seen, they are heard, they are believed. #choosecompassion#Respect#solidarity
One flower represents 100 individuals whose hearts went from healthy to diseased after the shot.Each lavender rose represents 100 people who now have to live with a permanent disability. The small flowers in the vase represent 100 preborn children who died after their pregnant moms received the vaccine.Data for 9/17one week increased of death, injury and suffering from the vaccine
This event is NOT a protest. This is a memorial designed to honor the voice of those who are trying to speak out but are being intentionally silenced and ridiculed by much of the public.
We pray that those who are suffering and injured know that they are seen. heard. believed.
Idaho Healthcare Personnel, Employees of Hospital Vendors, and Concerned Citizens:
First, I would like to thank you for your service to our state and for your dedication to helping Idaho citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. Words alone cannot express our heartfelt gratitude for your dedication and bravery during the past 17 months.
As your Lt. Governor, I am concerned that a sudden loss of healthcare personnel might lead to a healthcare crisis in our state. Therefore, I would like to help you understand your rights as both citizens and employees as they pertain to personal healthcare decisions and to issues of potential discrimination.
The law is clear about informed consent for healthcare treatment and procedures. Below please find information I hope is helpful.
Informed consent is required in state law:
Any person, including one who is developmentally disabled and not a respondent as defined in section 66-402, Idaho Code, who comprehends the need for, the nature of and the significant risks ordinarily inherent in any contemplated hospital, medical, dental, surgical or other health care, treatment or procedure is competent to consent thereto on his or her own behalf. Any health care provider may provide such health care and services in reliance upon such a consent if the consenting person appears to the health care provider securing the consent to possess such requisite comprehension at the time of giving the consent.
Consent, or refusal to consent, for the furnishing of health care, treatment or procedures shall be valid in all respects if the person giving or refusing the consent is sufficiently aware of pertinent facts respecting the need for, the nature of, and the significant risks ordinarily attendant upon such a person receiving such care, as to permit the giving or withholding of such consent to be a reasonably informed decision.
Obtaining sufficient consent for health care is the duty of the attending health care provider upon whose order or at whose direction the contemplated health care, treatment or procedure is rendered; provided however, a licensed hospital and any employee of a health care provider, acting with the approval of such an attending or other individual health care provider, may perform the ministerial act of documenting such consent by securing the completion and execution of a form or statement in which the giving of consent for such care is documented by or on behalf of the person.
Also, according to state law, the right to work shall not be subject to undue restraint or coercion:
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state of Idaho, in order to maximize individual freedom of choice in the pursuit of employment and to encourage an employment climate conducive to economic growth, that the right to work shall not be subject to undue restraint or coercion.
Most of the healthcare providers have Human Resource (HR) Departments. It is their responsibility to ensure that policies, working conditions and the concerns of employees in the workplace are addressed in an appropriate manner. As employees, it is our responsibility to notify the HR Department when there are untenable conditions in the workplace. Here are some things to consider:
If you decide that you will not comply with a demand to receive a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment, I suggest that you issue an affirmative statement to the company that you are opposed to the vaccine and do not intend to receive it based on a religious exemption, medical condition, or other circumstance. This notification will serve two purposes a) the company will know the seriousness of the policy and b) it will not be able to say that they were unprepared for the loss of their employee. A form could be developed and a specific request should be made that the form be placed in your employee file.
Ask the healthcare provider who is administering the vaccine if they have an informed consent form available, which should list out any side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. If you accept the risks from the vaccine you should sign it and keep it in your medical file. Remember, you have a right to provide this consent or not, according to state law.
Ask the company how they expect to receive verification of the COVID-19 vaccination if it is provided by another healthcare provider.
How will this COVID-19 vaccine status be disclosed to your supervisor for enforcement? There are legitimate concerns about the privacy of our individual healthcare information.
Document any forms of harassment or intimidation from your employer or direct supervisor. For example, being required to place a sticker on a name badge as a show of compliance may be considered a form of intimidation. The recommended course of action, should you believe discrimination is occurring, is to file a complaint within your HR Department for each case of harassment or intimidation, no matter what form it takes. If you do not feel comfortable doing this, at least keep a personal diary of any incident.
The purpose of all of this information is to provide evidence in the case of a lawsuit for termination of employment. The employee might have standing if they demonstrate that they have done all they could to notify the company and ask for an opportunity to seek accommodation. If anyone were to walk off the job prior to this date, there may not be any recourse. It would simply be deemed that you quit and you might not be able to claim unemployment compensation.
Please staff your stations until the day comes when the company where you work will choose to implement their vaccine mandate. Ultimately, this decision rests on hospital leadership and administration. I have asked them to come to the table to discuss the mandate and its impacts. Other, longer-term alternatives may be available as well, but for now the above would be my advice.
Most of all, please know that I and others are making an earnest effort to amicably resolve this.
