Quote:New York nurse Sandra Lindsay becomes the first person in the US to become vaccinated
At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.

So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said. -LA Times

Yet, as the Times notes, vaccine doubts among healthcare workers have come as a surprise to researchers, 'who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data backing the vaccines.'

Quote:A disturbing study published in December found that the mental health of nurses is in danger because of the stress and strain of caring for COVID-19 patients. The study revealed that nurses are increasingly using guns to commit suicide after trying other methods of ending their lives were not successful. It has been speculated for years that women nurses are at higher risk of dying from suicide than other women, which the study confirmed.

According to Forbes, Judy E. Davidson, a nurse scientist at University of California San Diego, conducted the study. Davidson found that 35% of nurses used pharmaceuticals and 33% used firearms to take their lives. The researcher said she does not know why nurses started using firearms in 2017 for suicide because before that they were less likely to turn to guns for this mission.

She said this worries her, according to Forbes, because the pandemic has increased both the stress load on nurses and firearm purchases — which her study shows is a deadly combination.

Quote:Covid-19 pandemic 'caused by separate outbreaks' around the world, China was just the first to report – Chinese FM
More and more research suggests that the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world

Quote:The first cluster of Covid-19 cases was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31, 2019; and over the next year the highly contagious virus spread to the rest of the world, resulting in 84.1 million confirmed cases and more than 1.83 million deaths so far.

Despite the fact that the precise origins of the coronavirus remain unclear, the outgoing President Donald Trump administration has been blaming the pandemic on China. Accusations leveled against Beijing have ranged from a cover-up of the initial outbreak to claims that the virus was human-made and somehow leaked from a Chinese laboratory.

Quote:Friends of mine have killed themselves in despair because of the misery brought about by our government’s actions to combat the virus. We need a plan to create new jobs, improve housing and, above all, give people hope.
Whenever I have visited my doctor’s surgery to pick up a prescription over the past few months, I have walked past a one-man protest. He occupies the surgery’s waiting room, much to the annoyance of the staff, on a daily basis. His complaint is, as his placard explains, simple: “Mad Lives Matter”. Wearing an obligatory mask, he sits in the waiting room holding up his sign declaring that, since Covid-19 has been prioritised above all other ailments, the mental health support he needs has been withdrawn.

Sadly, he is not alone: thousands of people have been denied the care they need. Dr Adrian James, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK, has predicted there will be “profound” short- and long-term consequences, saying: “It is probably the biggest hit to mental health since the Second World War.”

Quote:COVID 19 vaccine trials appear to have caused some confusion. Hopefully, this article might help clear things up a bit. People genuinely appear to believe that the COVID 19 vaccines have undergone clinical trials and have been proven to be both safe and effective. That belief is simply wrong.

The main point is this. If you decide to have Pfizer and BioNTechs experimental mRNA-based BNT162b2 (BNT) vaccine, or any other claimed COVID 19 vaccine for that matter, you are a test subject in a drug trial.

The mRNA in the BNT vaccine was sequenced from the 3rd iteration of the original WUHAN published Genome SARS-CoV-2 (MN908947.3). However, the WHO protocols Pfizer used to produce the mRNA do not appear to identify any nucleotide sequences that are unique to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. When investigator Fran Leader questioned Pfizer they confirmed:

The DNA template does not come directly from an isolated virus from an infected person.

Nor are there any completed clinical trials for these vaccines. Trials are ongoing. If you are jabbed with one, you are the guinea pig. This may be fine with you but it’s not a leap of faith I or my loved ones wish to take. However, everyone is differe