Suey - 10/16/2021 14:57
Our employee's wife might change your mind. Yes, she currently has natural immunity. She spent 1 week in the hospital then 1 week at home, 1 week in ICU, and now 5 days in a hospital room. She waiting to be transferred to a rehab facility. (she was not vaccinated and was not the healthiest ). She has blood clots in her lungs, partial collapsed lung. Right now she can not stand up by herself. She is on oxygen and will be on oxygen for at least the next 2-3 MONTHS! She'll be lucky to be home for Christmas. The reason she wasn't in the hospital more was because of the LACK of HOSPITAL BEDS! I REPEAT lack of hospital beds. She spent 2 days in the ER waiting for a bed. They almost sent her to an ICU in Minnesota. If a hospital bed had been available when she first went to the ER after just day 3 of being sick maybe things might of turned out differently. Maybe if they had available beds when they sent her home from the hospital after first admission maybe she wouldn't have needed ICU a WEEK after being home.
I know most of you think this whole lack of beds is due to nurses and CNA leaving due to the mandates. Nope they are quitting because they are tired of putting up with this COVID. Folks we need to have compassion for those in the health care field. There are people missing appointments and surgeries due to lack of hospital beds. They have found time after time that the way to keep people out of the hospital is for them to be vaccinated. Yes, some people who are vaccinated still get hospitalized.... but overall vaccinated people who have BREAKTHROUGH cases don't need hospital beds. I just reread a search "why I won't get vaccinated". At the end was a person LTK that was considering getting vaccinated due to his doctor telling him about the lack of beds and what COVID was doing to the unvaccinated.
Farmers and Ranchers, I want to see light at the end of the COVID tunnel. We need to stop the hospitalizations. Hopefully, the new MERK pill will be what we need to stop more hospitalizations.... once it becomes available. Until it is available for everyone, we've still got to stop the people getting really sick and filling the hospitals.
You are worried that the vaccinated can spread COVID. But, before they can spread COVID they have to GET COVID. In some studies only 2.6% of the vaccinated are having breakthrough cases. Remember lots of those vaccinated people were OLD people, people in nursing homes, assisted living, people with prexisisting conditions. People that tend to get sick easily. Most were vaccinated several months ago. We currently are wanting our booster but not available in our area yet. How can people IGNORE all the stats from hospitals showing that it is the UNVACCINATED that are MOSTLY in the hospitals.
Above I talk about our employee's wife. Our employee NEVER got sick. He was vaccinated! His daughter and SIL who both had COVID in April 2020. Both caught COVID again. The SIL has spent time in ICU, hospital and is home on oxygen hopes that he'll be able to go back to work sometime. So your natural immunity arguments go out the window with me.
Why would business want their employees vaccinated. HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS. Can you imagine what health insurance premiums are going to be with all these sick people? Then there is lost time from sick employees and quarantined employees. Employees that can't work because they have to stay home and take care of sick family. Employees that have Long Haulers and now you have to find someone else to train to do their job. Harvest takes longer when your employee can't be there to work because their family is in the hospital and they need to be there for the latest updates.
There's lots of the population that still has not had COVID. I assure you my 2 grandsons born since the start of this pandemic have not had COVID. And neither have their parents or siblings. And we hope to prevent them from getting it. I don't want my Grandchildren to be the % that get really sick or die from COVID. In fact I truly wish no one else has to suffer with this virus. There's still a lot of people to get this virus and unfortunately too many will suffer when they do get it. Vaccines can help prevent some of the suffering.
AND THAT:S MY OPINION!!!