Last October I posted about people who got exemptions who thought they were home free. I warned that those exemptions were at risk because the very presence of so called non-vaccinated persons puts a lie to the deadly emergency message. Well here's New Jersey.
Irked eh?
"The Healthcare Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), the state’s largest union of nurses and health care workers, released a statement today expressing frustration at Gov. Phil Murphy’s new booster mandate for health care and congregate living workers, which also eliminates the test-out option for those who do not wish to get vaccinated.
“Testing is a key component and today’s executive order has just eliminated an important tool in slowing the spread of the virus,” HPAE President Debbie White said. “While we appreciate the need to increase vaccination rates, this does not solve the problems that exist right now.”"
Say, who did this union support during the last election?
HPAE endorsed Murphy in both 2017 and 2021, with White saying last year that Murphy “consistently brought labor to the table in times of crisis to work collaboratively.”
Oh, so like "my" union, they supported the mandate imposing candidate and got their members screwed.
There's a story about feeding alligators that is appropriate now.
Once the Supreme Court allowed the CMS mandate to go through and stated that the states essentially have free hand to impose what they like, gov. Murphy had a free hand. You all [helped] in giving him that power by supporting him even though it was well known that he was Mr. Mandate. These nurses just thought that the alligator wouldn't eat them.