My nephew, age 21, finally got his first jab this past week. He decided to do it because places are requiring it now. (Auntie, who has been hoping for months, can finally relax!)

Good! I wish more places were requiring it.

Same here with the major medical networks, and many employers jumping on board. A day late and a dollar short. I so wish that the previous administration could be held legally responsible for all of the unnecessary deaths…and now the hesitancy to mandate vaccination is still killing people…argh!!! When will it end???!!!

I’m hoping they have medical exemptions for people who are technically working in healthcare, but 1. working from home [and hermiting there] and 2. medically recommended to not get the shot.

I have a friend who just jumped through all the hoops at her university because she has brain and heart inflammation that are still not entirely understood but that her doctors think are related to immune responses and the *last* think they want at the moment is to poke her immune system with a pointy stick. (she desperately wants the vaccine because she’s an extrovert and is so tired of hiding out in her house and never seeing anyone in person except medical staff, but: brain damage/death being a decently-likely outcome: ehhhh we’ll wait until the inflammation goes down enough to be out of the risky range?)

But people who are in-person, and people without medical reasons of the serious grade? Vaccination time, please?

The health system I work for just instituted mandated vaccinations for all of its staff (regardless of location), volunteers and contractors. Same as they did for the influenza vaccine several years ago.

Oh my, the stink some folks are raising about this!!

They do allow for medical or religious exemptions. And we are asking our patients who want a medical exemption, with no clearly documented allergy to a vaccine ingredient or other clearly recognizable medical reason for the exemption, to see their provider to discuss.

I have been floored by the nonsense I have read on public posts (Facebook) about this policy by folks who are employees (though possibly not after October). Sigh… our education system has obviously failed many people by not teaching critical thinking skills and slacking on basic scientific literacy.

That medical personnel or working with those in that field are dragging their heels/protesting getting the COVID shot is beyond my comprehension. Grrrr.