The news was certainly appreciated when we learned that Denmark was ending all COVID-19 restrictions: Denmark has lifted all Covid-19 restrictions within the country, with coronavirus no longer considered a “socially critical sickness,” according to the government. This means that an indoor mask mandate, the use of a “Covid pass” for bars, restaurants and other […]
Despite the fact that the COVID-19 vaccines appear to have little, if any, effect in reducing the transmissibility of the virus, especially the Omicron variant, the tinhorn dictators want to separate people from each other, want to impose restrictions on a segment of the population who haven’t Obeyed Orders. From The Philadelphia Inquirer: A new […]
Governor Tom Wolf (D-PA) will, thankfully, be gone in a year, but he’s anxious to protect what executive authority he can while he remains in office. As the Delta variant spread, Governor Wolf initially stated that he would leave mask mandate decisions up to local school boards. Then, when many of those school boards didn’t […]
If you sent your kids to a private school, the private school decided that face masks would be optional, and you disagreed with that decision, wouldn’t you stop paying tuition and send your kids to public schools, where they had a mask mandate? A Northeast Philly private school defied the city’s mask order. Philadelphia took […]
We have previously reported on Acting Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole and Philadelphia’s vaccine mandate: Many Philadelphia health workers remain unvaccinated two months before shots will be required by Laura McCrystal | Wednesday, August 18, 2021 Acting Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said many institutions have applauded Philadelphia’s new vaccine mandate for health care workers, but noted […]
We have already noted that some hospitals have been firing nurses for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccines, and we had hardly covered them all. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that some Kentucky hospitals have begun firing staff who refused a COVID vaccine. Though the vaccine mandate announcement was made in a unified voice alongside Gov. […]
We noted, just yesterday, that the Philadelphia School District closed Emlen Elementary School due to positive CIVID-19 tests. Now, two more have been shut down. COVID-19 has forced three Philadelphia schools to close by Rob Tornoe | Wednesdat, September 15, 2021 Three Philadelphia schools have now been forced to temporarily close due to COVID-19 cases, […]
Do reporters for The Philadelphia Inquirer read their own news paper? Inquirer reporter Harold Brubaker, who specializes in the business side of health care and nonprofit sector, reported on the Keystone State’s attempts to revise nursing home regulations, but somehow he managed to miss the elephant in the room: ‘Insulting and dumb.’ That’s how a […]
We have previously noted that the vaccine mandate by Philadelphia’s Acting Commissioner for Health Cheryl Bettigole would have the unintended consequence of exacerbating the already short staffing of health care facilities. Now comes The New York Times: ‘Nursing Is in Crisis’: Staff Shortages Put Patients at Risk “When hospitals are understaffed, people die,” one expert […]