From Heroes to Zeroes

Frontline Healthcare Workers

Healthcare Workers; once lauded as heroes, today they are treated as zeroes. Healthcare workers share photos of their bruised faces. Photo courtesy of viralhatch.com

I remember the days after September 11, 2001, every American was going around waving their little American flags, singing Kumbaya, and praising those brave first responders.

That lasted a few months and then everyone went back to their selfish ways. I know because I was a Federal Air Marshal and people were acting like fools on flights and in the airports. Many Americans have a noticeably short-term memory when it does not directly affect them.

Fast forward to 2020 and the Chinese virus. Once again, Americans were praising the healthcare frontline workers and you could not turn to a television channel without some type of advertising saying thanks for their work and sacrifice.

These workers exposed themselves to Covid-19 patients’ day and day out. Their faces were scarred from wearing masks for long hours and they ran the risk of infecting their own loved ones. Mind you, when Covid-19 appeared into the scene nobody knew much about it, we still don’t.

But now, in 2021, those who were once the heroes of the pandemic have become the zeroes. Hospitals and healthcare systems throughout the United States are mandating these healthcare workers to vaccinate or else.

Meanwhile, illegal aliens crossing our Southern border and Afghans refugees are not mandated to be vaccinated before been dropped off by the government into our communities. Go figure!

Nationwide, healthcare workers who have been exposed to Covid -19, and most likely have developed antibodies against the disease, are now facing termination and ridiculous fees if they refuse to vaccinate or have their own spouses vaccinated.

The latest on this Orwellian saga is Ochsner Health in Louisiana. The largest healthcare provider in the State will begin imposing fines, $200.00 each month if the spouse of an employee is unvaccinated. Say what? They call it the “Spousal Covid Vaccine Fee”.

Basically, this will affect employees whose spouses are on the hospital’s healthcare plan.  But Ochsner is going to be nice enough to allow them to split the payment into two $100.00 payments.

Between this and medical doctors refusing to treat unvaccinated people, we can officially declare the medical community as insane.

How can you trust a healthcare system who behaves this way against their own workers? You can’t!