Speak Up: Long-term care, state employees must have COVID vaccination or test
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Staff of long-term care and other Delaware health care facilities will be required to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or undergo regular testing beginning Sept. 30, Gov. John Carney announced. State of Delaware employees will also be required to provide proof of vaccination by Sept. 30 or undergo routine testing for the virus. Gov. Carney and the Delaware Division of Public Health also released a statement Thursday to “encourage private employers to impose similar requirements to encourage vaccinations.”
Do you mean that after 16 months of gestapo rule by Carney and more than 18 months of dealing with COVID-19, the governor is just now mandating nursing homes to test all staff and require vaccinations? It’s like our government is trying to prolong the epidemic, not fix it. — Bob Skuse
Get vaccinated or stay home. — Charlie Harper
So you can’t get COVID from milk, bread or other stuff folks touch? — Howard Gaines III
You can still get infected with many things post-vaccination (rabies, influenza, chickenpox, shingles, meningitis, anthrax, yellow fever, measles and the list goes on and on). The point is to minimize transmission and side effects, which all those previous vaccines do well. Following science is more than selectively picking and choosing which data you want to exploit. — Ashley Carter
Sorry, but the vaccine is experimental and not going in my body. — Howard Gaines III
Good luck going to the hospital. You think wait times are long now. Just wait till they fire half their nurses and have no one to replace them with in the middle of a “pandemic.” — Katherine Hannah
Does that mean the nurses were just working for a paycheck? — Dale Bert
I’m not sure where you got that? Nurses should have the same right to medical and bodily autonomy that everyone else does. The fact that they’re willing to fire thousands of nurses in the middle of a pandemic, especially when they’ve worked this whole time with no shot just fine indicates that things aren’t really as bad as they’re claiming. My only point is that the people whining about how they should just leave if they don’t want the shot will be complaining that they have to wait forever in understaffed hospitals. We can’t have it both ways. — Katherine Hannah
You have to be vaccinated from a whole slew of things just to be a nurse. So no, they don’t have a right to what you said to work. They’ve never had that right. — Dale Bert
Vaccine mandates upheld by a Trump-appointed judge. — Eddie Curley
