Missouri State of Mind

Can a hospital justify defying a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for staff on the grounds that it would cause them to close their doors?

Apparently, it is the new must have on your resume.

The shortage of food for school lunch programs has finally hit the press. The New York Times tags it as a labor shortage, no make that a supply shortage. Perhaps it is both. But those who emphasize the shortage is the end result of the decision to make school lunch free to all students during the pandemic know very little about just how skimpy a federally funded school lunch can be in pandemic times under the waiver of many school lunch nutritional requirements. They may also know very little about childhood poverty in the U.S.

Apparently not. No surprises here. There is significant data, from outside the COVID-19 universe, that it is the incentive of hard cash that, if anything, can help motivate the move toward health and wellness seeking behavior. Did anybody in Missouri actually consult anyone else in advance? Who advised that a lottery would draw large numbers of people into the vaccination fold?

This article is the best I have seen of its type, humanizing the cost to university employees of the return to face to face education with no social distancing and vaccination requirements.

Seen at the Senior Citizens’ Center in Red Lodge Montana.

Should it depend on the vaccination status of the proposed transfer patient? The vaccination status of the population of Idaho? The mask mandate or lack thereof in Idaho? Something else?

Could a deceased faculty member’s surviving family bring a wrongful death suit agains the University of Georgia if the death causing variant could be genetically typed?

United Health Care as the bottom feeder on reimbursement for administering COVID-19 vaccinations/

So, what next? For all those dithering about whether the unvaccinated ought to be eligible for hospital-based COVID-19 treatment, maybe it is time to stop and think about how having a hospital “bed” available means more than a physical bed, it means a staffed bed, and, in particular, a bed staffed for COVID-19 treatment. The brutality of the market is determining who gets a fully staffed COVID-19 hospital bed in Missouri, not the philosopher kings among us.