Waukesha Gets Whacked By The Covid Regime

Administrative: This will be a busy week for me, so posting will likely be spottier than usual.

On to Waukesha.

The Federalist has a must read story on the effect the Covid Regime mandates are having on care for the 18 children who were run down in the terrorist attack on the Christmas parade (seven children remain hospitalized). I’ll provide some brief excerpts, but I urge you to follow the link:

Hospital Struggles To Treat 18 Waukesha Parade Victims Because Of Vaccine Mandate

A high-ranking official said the hospital currently has hundreds of open positions and attributes much of the staffing shortage to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The largest children’s hospital in Wisconsin has been struggling to care for patients in injured in the Waukesha Christmas parade attack on Nov. 21 in large part because of staffing shortages stemming from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, multiple sources say.

Eighteen children were brought to the Children’s Wisconsin Milwaukee Hospital with injuries suffered when a driver plowed into parade-goers that Sunday afternoon. Several remain in critical or serious condition, and an eight-year-old boy died of his injuries Tuesday. As of Monday morning, the hospital was still treating seven victims.

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Sources at Children’s Wisconsin indicate that when victims first started to be transported to the hospital, it did not have enough nurses or support staff to adequately handle the sudden rush.

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A high-ranking official at Children’s, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the hospital currently has hundreds of open positions and attributes much of the staffing shortage to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. …

Earlier this fall, Children’s set a Nov. 15 deadline for all staff members to be vaccinated against COVID and boasted of 90 percent compliance. Children’s Wisconsin spokesman Andrew Brodzeller said in late October that any employee who was not fully vaccinated by Nov. 15 would be fired the following day.

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The hospital system’s religious exemption requests were due Sept. 15, and The MacIver Institute reported that more than 70 percent of them were denied. On Oct. 14, Children’s was forced to close its Delafield clinic until the end of the year because of severe staffing shortages.

“This is because of the mandate,” one source said flatly. “People either quit because their exemptions were denied or didn’t even bother to apply. They just started looking for other jobs.”

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The American Hospital Association reported in September that the number of full-time hospital employees dropped by 4 percent this year, but the cost of labor expenses for each patient has grown by 14 percent. As more nurses and other employees leave the workforce, hospitals have been forced to dramatically increase salaries to entice them to stay or lure new workers onto their staff.

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But the major factor, multiple Children’s sources say, has been the vaccine mandate, as it has caused a sudden and dramatic decrease in staff levels.

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Those who have been following the news closely know that this scenario is being replicated across the country. The Covid Regime has set up the medical system to be one step away from disaster, no matter where that disaster may strike.

When will enough be enough? These stories are typically buried by the MSM, but people are finding out. My sense is that the attempt to re-up the panic via Ominous Omicron is starting too early—probably due to Covid Regime panic at rising resistance. No doubt the desire is to use Ominous Omicron to get people to forget about Christmas, forget about empty shelves, forget—above all—about inflation. And to use the panic to sabotage Election 2022 to the extent possible.

The question is how long the American people will remain compliant. After the initial scare talk—which, of course, is still maintained by the government’s media proxies in the MSM—all word out of Africa is that Ominous Omicron is barely recognizable as Covid, from a symptomatic standpoint. How long before people catch on? Will they tolerate another lockdown, and how will they react if Ominous Omicron falls on its face?

These are the questions we face.