Overwork them, underpay them. Deny them lunch and rest breaks, time off, and family leave. Stress them out, burn them out, then throw them in prison if they make a mistake. “Diana Campion, a nurse practitioner who lives in Florida, recently contemplated going back to bedside nursing part-time,[...]
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California nurses’ strike bears fruit
A couple weeks ago I wrote here that nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto were threatening to strike over pay and working conditions. They did walk out, and after spending a week on picket lines, they appear to have won. The union president called the [...]
Court rejects Gov. Inslee recall
Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) won’t face a recall election because of his Covid-19 emergency directives. The recall backers were disgruntled by Inslee’s eviction moratorium, restrictions on public gatherings, conducting public agency meetings online, and other pandemic-related executive orders.[...]
Trump officials blocked CDC’s Covid-19 briefings
When Republicans are in charge, you’re expendable. The GOP’s pandemic policy was to keep businesses open at all costs. Faced with the Covid-19 crisis, Republicans were willing to sacrifice Americans’ lives for business profits. They opposed workplace safety measures, such as closin[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 2:23 am § in Health, Law and Courts
Does the judge who struck down airline mask mandates know what she’s doing?
“You’ve probably heard by now that Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a Trump-appointed judge in Florida, issued a sweeping opinion striking down the Biden administration’s requirement that passengers wear masks on airplanes, trains, and similar methods of transportation,” Vox said here [...]
Why is a GOP legislator shocked her party’s candidate for governor stuck his hand up her dress?
That’s what Republicans are like now, and you have to expect it, ever since Trump gave them permission to do it. What am I talking about? Well, a lot of incidents, but the latest one is this: “Nebraska Republican state Sen. Julie Slama said she was ‘in shock’ when Donald Tru[...]
April 10th, 2022 - 1:55 pm § in Health
Covid-19 is still here, and not to be trifled with
Jarrett Banwart (photo), 59, of Seattle, got Covid-19 in March 2020 before vaccines were available. He survived, but two years later, still suffers from fatigue and other “long Covid” symptoms that keep him from going for bicycle rides or working regularly. He wonders if his Covid-19 ord[...]
Fox personality quietly sacked for “Dr. Mengele” remark
Rightwing firebrand Lara Logan (profile here, photo below) apparently has been pushed off Fox News after her infamous November 2021 remark comparing Dr. Fauci to Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, who (among his other crimes) conducted cruel medical experiments on Jewish children (photo, right). This week,[...]
We’re not ready for the next pandemic, and don’t want to be
We humans aren’t exactly a suicidal species, but we come close. We’ve invented weapons to destroy ourselves. We regularly wage large wars that kill many of our own species. We refuse to stop destroying our own habitat. Climate change will end our way of life, but we’re not going t[...]
April 3rd, 2022 - 2:50 pm § in Health
Beware telemedicine fraud (video)
A phone call could cost you thousands of dollars. Watch this segment from the April 1, 2022, NBC Nightly News broadcast to learn how crooks exploit telemedicine to steal your money. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]