{"id":80606,"date":"2022-01-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80606"},"modified":"2022-01-11T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T02:48:22","slug":"nurse-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80606","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como parks emails:Joe Doakes from Como parks emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Hospitals are bringing in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2022\/01\/07\/international-nurses-recruit-US-hospitals-pandemic\/5011641580000\/\"> foreigners to do the nursing work<\/a> Americans won&#8217;t do. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The article implies the reason for the nursing shortage is that American nurses are tired from working so hard taking care of Covid patients.  They&#8217;re quitting in exhaustion.  Apparently, they will never recover, never return to work, therefore we must replace them with nurses brought in from overseas.  Foreign nurses are much more durable, more resilient, I guess.  They aren&#8217;t quitters.  They&#8217;re willing to work. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Who believes this rot?   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If we&#8217;re worried about a nurse staffing shortage, maybe we shouldn&#8217;t be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mayo-clinic-unvaccinated-700-employees-fired-staffing-crisis-minnesota\">firing nurses during a pandemi<\/a>c for violating a vaccine mandate?  Particularly not over a vaccine which doesn&#8217;t prevent the spread of an illness which is basically just a bad flu.  Another example of the endless lack of Second Order Thinking in the Brandon administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, yes \u2013 it does seem a little bit like the right hand doesn\u2019t know what stories the left-hand is telling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como parks emails:Joe Doakes from Como parks emails: Hospitals are bringing in foreigners to do the nursing work Americans won&#8217;t do. The article implies the reason for the nursing shortage is that American nurses are tired from working so hard taking care of Covid patients. They&#8217;re quitting in exhaustion. Apparently, they will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80607,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80606\/revisions\/80607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}