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Clairity Blue's avatar

Exactly. What you said. All of it.

My husband and I are -- or should I say were -- nurses working for BC health authorities in the lower mainland. My husband was an emergency psychiatric nurse and I did specialty oncology and home care. When we were threatened with the mandates we thought, heck no, they won't mandate a gene therapy that has failed for the past 40 years!! As an HIV and oncology nurse, I have watched mRNA fail over and over and over again. At the best, clinical trial animals lived to 3 years human life equivalency. Our union defeated the flu vaccine mandate, and we thought, they surely will stand by our side.

The president of the BCNU was fired... ahem, stepped down in September 2021. And then the health authorities did what we didn't think possible. October 25th we were put on leave and fired.

Since this time, we had hundreds of colleagues fired as well. Good nurses. Experienced. Leaders and preceptors for their units. It also includes the leader and 28-year experienced nurse of the solid organ transplant unit at VGH who did all the critical care and training of new staff. Needless to say..... things have fallen apart. Bad. We are told of colleagues sick with COVID regularly, and a host of other issues. Friends who vaxd 3 or 4 times to keep their jobs report palpitations, strange headaches, fainting, neuropathies, and young nurses have had heart attacks and strokes. 2 nurses have died mysteriously and suddenly. The emerg psychiatry units my husband worked at closed during shifts or entirely downsized or have been eliminated. BC oncology care is in shambles to the point where managers are having to hang chemo and patients are going weeks to months without getting treatment. The entire BC healthcare system has been crushed.

We have been told by insiders that BC lost, through firings and forced early retirements and vac-related disabilities, as many as 8000 nursing registrations in 2022. That is almost 25% of the nursing workforce.

I guess it is worth it, though, because here we are immune and healthy while our colleagues are sick and disabled and working short every shift. But hey, at least they won't get covid from us dirty unvaxed!

Final note, we gave up on Canada and went back to the US. We might not have jobs there either because of the CMS mandates, but at least we know that 50% of the population is going to fight for freedom. Canada. Shame.

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Igor Chudov's avatar

Sheldon, it is not just the three selected industries that are fscked!

It is the whole Canada, very many people too sick to work for now, and soon to get even sicker. Hospitals, airlines and ferries are simply canaries in the coal mine, because their workers are more exposed, but soon everyone will be totally exposed due to massive infection and reinfection levels.

I call this "Chronic Covid"... Infection everywhere... All sorts of variants... etc

Heck, it is not just Canada... It is my country too... ouch.

Our demographics will soon change quite dramatically. This saddens me and I want none of that to happen, but I fear that it will.

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