LAPD Still Won't Get Vaccinated (riding, better, employees)

[goodheathen]

Police protect personal safety, just like healthcare workers. (*Police even work in hospitals sometimes, re prisoners who need healthcare.) It's not like government officer workers, whom the Supreme Court very likely would decide don't need to be vaccinated. I made this thread about LAPD partly because of their special function, knowing that the LA mandate isn't just on them.
*That in some situations might almost force the police to be vaccinated, because what if a hospital only allows vaccinated people in some wings for non-emergencies?

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by joosoon

The next step will be an allowance for asymptomatic cases just like with healthcare workers.

Despite the hype on social media and other alternative media outlets, asymptomatic exceptions for health care workers were really last ditch efforts if COVID sickened most of the medical professionals.

I honestly would trust the WHO over the CDC on COVID. CDC really needs to hire a California PR firm because who ever is handling their PR (federal employee or outsourced D.C. firm) is not very effective in messaging to the average American.

Americans have relied on the CDC due to nationalism (and by pro-Trumpers during 2020), but even with Biden taking the helm for a year they are still messy with the public messages. Leaks have created even more confusion!

[CA4Now]

This pulmonary and critical care physician's experience with an unvaccinated LAFD patient.

"I recently asked a security guard to accompany me and an ICU nurse to meet the family of an unvaccinated 42-year-old firefighter who refused to accept that COVID-19 caused his respiratory failure. Adamantly refusing intubation despite worsening over weeks, it was only when his oxygen levels precipitously dropped and he complained of excruciating breathlessness that he accepted a breathing tube.

A dozen irate family members and friends now demanded answers. Because of visitation restrictions to limit contagion, they awaited me in lawn chairs outside the hospital. Through my N95 mask, I tried to explain in simple terms what was happening to their loved one. They hectored with incessant questions about test results, accusations of mistreatment and demands for therapies like vitamins, ivermectin and sedatives.

Warning repeatedly “not to lie,” they recorded me with their camera phones..."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...rnover-burnout

[CA4Now]

"More than 2,000 employees of the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are at home sick or quarantining after testing positive for the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday (1/19).

LAPD Det. Meghan Aguilar said that some 1,134 personnel out of 12,200 are currently at home, including 898 sworn officers. Those numbers are up 42% from the 803 personnel who were out Jan. 11.

On average, an LAPD officer sidelined with a coronavirus infection is missing 20 days of work and a civilian employee is missing 33 days, Aguilar said. Officials noted that average includes some personnel with long-term COVID-19 cases who have spent months recuperating."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ffs-department

[Finper]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

"More than 2,000 employees of the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are at home sick or quarantining after testing positive for the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday (1/19).

LAPD Det. Meghan Aguilar said that some 1,134 personnel out of 12,200 are currently at home, including 898 sworn officers. Those numbers are up 42% from the 803 personnel who were out Jan. 11.

On average, an LAPD officer sidelined with a coronavirus infection is missing 20 days of work and a civilian employee is missing 33 days, Aguilar said. Officials noted that average includes some personnel with long-term COVID-19 cases who have spent months recuperating."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ffs-department

A lot of those employees are vaxxed. Guess vaxxes don’t work if they’re taking a month off to recuperate

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Finper

A lot of those employees are vaxxed. Guess vaxxes don’t work if they’re taking a month off to recuperate

20% weren't. Try again.

[goodheathen]

I assume that the policy in the municipal realm remains 10 days minimum before a return to work.

[Finper]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

20% weren't. Try again.

Nice try but it’s 43%. I thought all cops and fireman were fired that weren’t vaxxed? That mandate thing never happened? Shocking!!!

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Finper

Nice try but it’s 43%.

Sorry; no numbers anywhere near that for either the LAPD or LAFD. I don't know where you get your information.

[Finper]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Sorry; no numbers anywhere near that for either the LAPD or LAFD. I don't know where you get your information.

From that article. It said as of Jan 15 43% of vaxxed cops are sick. Do you really not know that many vaxxed people are getting sick?