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"Jennifer Bridges, a nurse at Houston Methodist Hospital, has come forward with more information about her employer’s criminal attempts at suppressing the truth about the dangers of Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines.
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Originally Posted by MissTerri
Yes, she was a frontline worker as were many who walked out and quit rather than being forced to take the vaccine. Not everyone was or is terrified of covid and not everyone wants the vaccine. Not even among frontline workers who worked with covid patients.
It's not about the hospital workers; it's about protecting the patients. Kinda obvious, dontcha think?
Well another ER nurse, Amanda Rivera, at Houston Methodist, not part of the lawsuit, also refused the vaccine, and is losing her job.
She is not taking the vaccine because she said, "once it's done (the jab) it's done, you can't take it back. My health isn't worth it."
But WHY is she so worried about the vaccine? She explained when interviewed by KHOU-11 TV:
So an ER nurse doesn't want the vaccine because she works in ER, not me, not you, and she sees them bringing in people all day to her to deal with that are having severe reactions of shortness of breath. chest pains, from the vaccine.
Search YT for "'I kind of feel betrayed' | Houston Methodist nurse leaves job over vaccine requirement"
My aunt was having trouble breathing after being vaccinated. Her feet swelled and her heart stopped.
Update: A Federal District Judge has dismissed this lawsuit. No idea if the plaintiff's attorney will try and appeal. Story seems to indicate it's their intention to file another suit at the state level.
"Current state vaccination laws for adults are focused on health care workers and patients in health care facilities, rather than the general population. State vaccination mandates for health care workers vary but generally include the requirement to offer certain vaccines, and in some cases document employee vaccination status (subject to exemptions described below). For example, 18 states require flu vaccine to be offered to hospital staff and/or require hospitals to report the status of employee vaccination to the state, and 15 states have measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination laws for hospital health care workers."
"Mandatory vaccination laws were first enacted in the early 19th century, beginning with Massachusetts' smallpox vaccination law in 1809. (I call that, forever.)
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Health Care Workers
A number of states have laws requiring employees of certain health care facilities, such as hospitals and nursing homes, to be vaccinated against diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella. Such laws, which vary widely, generally contain opt-out provisions where a vaccine is medically contraindicated or if the vaccine is against the individual's religious or philosophical beliefs.38 A few states have laws pertaining to influenza vaccination of health care workers, and most that do provide for voluntary influenza immunization programs and staff education measures for employees; however, a few states have mandatory requirements for influenza vaccinations for health care workers.39" Read more, H1N1 2009 pandemic ...
"A number of professional organizations, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians, endorse the proposition that health care workers have a professional and ethical responsibility to help prevent the spread of infectious pathogens among patients and themselves, and that health care workers should receive annual influenza vaccinations as a condition of employment and professional privileges." Read more DOD ...
"As noted above, state and local governments have primary responsibility for protecting the public health, and this has been reflected in the enactment of various state laws requiring that school children be vaccinated against certain diseases before enrolling in school and that health care workers be vaccinated as a condition of employment, as well as laws providing for mandatory vaccination procedures during a public health emergency."
Is COVID a health emergency? ... that was a rhetorical question. Now, anyone want to take bets on how this lawsuit(s) turns out?
In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas' written decision, Judge Lynn N. Hughes said lead plaintiff Jennifer Bridges, a nurse, and 116 other Houston Methodist Hospital employees who challenged the requirement, had no case. Hughes addressed the plaintiffs' arguments one-by-one. On the vaccination requirement violating due process, she wrote, "Texas does not recognize this exception to at-will employment."
On their argument that the requirement would force workers to break the law: "Receiving a COVID-19 vaccination is not an illegal act, and it carries no criminal penalties." "She [Bridges] is refusing to accept inoculation that, in the hospital's judgement, will make it safer for their workers and patients in Methodist's care," Hughes wrote.
On their claim they were being coerced: "This is not coercion. Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the COVID-19 virus. It is a choice made to keep staff, patients and their families safer."
On their claim that they are being required to take an "unapproved" medicine: "Federal law authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to introduce into interstate commerce medical products intended for use in an emergency."
At times, Hughes seems to mock the plaintiffs, saying, for example, that their complaint was written "press-release style." Plaintiffs, she said, "misconstrued" the law and "misrepresented the facts" of vaccination, including that the requirement amounted to forced medical experimentation because Covid-19 vaccines have received emergency Food and Drug Administration authorization but not full approval. Hughes also knocks down a comparison to forced medical experiments in Nazi Germany. "Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible," she wrote.
I guess all the legal experts in this thread who were convinced this lawsuit had merit can go back to being immunologists and microbiologists in other threads.
^^ I wonder what the plaintiff's next step will be. Judge Lynn Hughes (who is a male btw, MSN) was appointed to that position by Reagan in 1985, apparently has one of the lowest affirmation rates at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and his rulings get overturned there more frequently than those of his colleagues. My guess is if they try and pursue additional suits, they'll be via the state court system.
Last edited by Texas Ag 93; 06-13-2021 at 07:03 AM..
Hospital workers are real people. Many of them already had covid and have immunity anyway.
Natural immunity is not the same as vaccine immunity. In many cases vaccine immunity is more protective than natural immunity. That is especially true for people who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19.
Natural immunity is not the same as vaccine immunity. In many cases vaccine immunity is more protective than natural immunity. That is especially true for people who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19.
Natural immunity is at least as good as vaccine induced immunity. That has been established.
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