US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?

 

[Wargarbl]

What will Sandy from Westchester’s legacy be? Public crying tantrums and wiping tears, be them hers or some other ugly sheboon regressives’. All of the Squad will be remembered for this by the time they leave office.
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TFW you try to become a Simpsons episode.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

TFW you try to become a Simpsons episode.

The entire government is one cartoon show after another

TV Guide:
2:00PM - "That Joe Biden" Ep: 37 - Joe goes to a baseball game and get's ridiculed. Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi get's a phone call she wishes she didn't.
2:30PM - "Psaki The Clown" Ep: 14 - Jen Psaki does a repeat act by giving one word answers in a "not-so-nice" tone of voice.
3:00PM - "The Wacky Adventures of AOC" Ep: 26 - In an unexpected turn of events, AOC has to make a speech that makes her cry. Find out what it was!!!

 

[Hackallier]

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1443687494264950787

Biden vaccine mandates causing another pandemic: hospital staff shortages

Hospitals are shutting down or limiting healthcare services because of personnel shortages, as non-compliant employees are forced out.

justthenews.com

Biden vaccine mandates causing another pandemic: hospital staff shortages​

Hospitals are shutting down or limiting healthcare services because of personnel shortages, as non-compliant employees are forced out.


The Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers at facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding, in addition to statewide vaccine requirements, are causing hospital staff shortages across the country, as those who are unvaccinated are forced to leave their jobs.

These shortages are forcing some hospitals to shut down or scale back on healthcare services like delivering babies. In at least one known case, hospital rooms aren't receiving clean linens and the cafeteria is unable to serve hot food because of staff shortage.

Brownfield Regional Medical Center in Texas may close down if the federal vaccine mandate is enforced because so many staff will have to be fired, according to KCBD in Lubbock.

"[P]robably 20 to 25 percent of my staff will have to go away if that's the case," said Jerry Jasper, CEO at Brownfield Regional Medical Center.

The hospital cannot afford to lose its Medicare and Medicaid money either, since it makes up 80-85% of their funding.

"It's huge in our rural community as all the other rural communities," Jasper said. "We all have high poverty levels and stuff like that, so a lot of Medicaid usage in our communities and stuff like that."

As of Friday, Lewis County General Hospital in New York is no longer delivering babies because six of their maternity unit employees resigned to avoid getting the COVID-19 vaccine, according to WWNY-TV. Seven other maternity unit workers are undecided on taking the vaccine.

Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer said his hope is that this is a temporary situation as he works with the state Department of Health to ensure the maternity unit doesn't permanently close.

"If we can pause the service and now focus on recruiting nurses who are vaccinated, we will be able to reengage in delivering babies here in Lewis County," he said.

There are 165 hospital employees who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine, which is 27% of the workforce, Cayer said. The other 73%, or 464 employees, have already received the vaccine.

St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., is consolidating operating rooms because of the staffing shortage, according to the chief medical officer, Dr. Philip Falcone, Spectrum News reported. Elective surgeries are continuing, but scheduled procedures are being reviewed every week to adjust capacity according to the number of staff available, Falcone said.

As of Sept. 21, 77% of St. Joseph's staff are vaccinated.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Monday to help with the hospital staffing shortages. Monday was also the deadline for medical workers to receive their first COVID-19 shot, according to an earlier executive order by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The state of emergency allows out-of-state licensed healthcare workers, including those from outside the U.S., to practice in New York and medical practitioners to volunteer or work at other facilities where they are not employed.

A federal judge granted an emergency injunction in a civil rights lawsuit on Sept. 14, forcing New York to allow for religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. On Sunday, Hochul told worshippers at Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn that God wants them to get vaccinated, the Washington Examiner reported.

On Monday, Novant Health — a North Carolina-based hospital system with 35,000 employees across four states — announced it had fired about 175 workers who refused to comply with a company vaccine mandate.

Novant had previously suspended roughly 375 employees for non-compliance and given them five days to comply with the company’s mandate — or lose their jobs. Following the ultimatum, "nearly 200 additional team members came into compliance, increasing that rate across Novant Health to over 99 percent," company spokeswoman Megan Rivers said Monday.

In Memphis, Mo., CEO of Scotland County Hospital Dr. Randy Tobler told NPR that they lost five nurses during the 18 months of the pandemic to higher-paying positions elsewhere. He tried to attract more employees with their lack of a vaccine mandate, but that was two days before Biden announced the nationwide mandate, negating that incentive.

Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, Wisc., has seen about 15% of its 7,600 employees choose to not get vaccinated, according to Wisconsin Spotlight. The health system announced in August that all employees must be vaccinated by Nov. 1 or they will be fired.

"If you ask for a religious exemption, they sit you down in front of a panel and grill you," a nurse, who has been at Gundersen for about 10 years, told the news outlet. "They are testing people's religious exemptions. I suspect at some point in the future they will start disallowing those exemptions. There is pressure for that as well."

There is already a severe shortage of workers at Gundersen, even beyond medical staff.

"We've never seen a staffing situation this bad, and that's from people who have worked here for 20, 30 years," according to the nurse. "If you look at the lower-wage staff, laundry, custodial, kitchen, we have a lot of vacancies, and it's really impacting patient care. Rooms can't get clean towels and sheets. The cafeteria is serving cold cut sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly because they don't have enough people to serve hot meals."

A spokesperson for Indiana University Health — with 35,800 employees, the largest hospital system in Indiana — told Newsweek that "125 employees, the equivalent of 61 full-time employees, chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and have left the organization."

Because of these shortages, some healthcare leaders are calling for the Biden administration to take action to provide more workers.

CEO of the National Rural Health Association Alan Morgan is calling for the Biden administration to create strike teams to compensate for the shortage of qualified people to take the open healthcare jobs during a pandemic in a lot of regions. "Morgan suggested that teams could be drawn from the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Guard or the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help rural hospitals," NPR reported.

American Hospital Association President and CEO Rick Pollack said in a statement on Sept. 9 that while his organization supports hospitals choosing to implement vaccine mandates, "As a practical matter, this policy may result in exacerbating the severe workforce shortage problems that currently exist."

Pollack called on the administration to partner with hospitals "in developing aggressive and creative strategies to address this matter to ensure that hospitals and health systems on the front lines of fighting the battle against COVID-19 have the necessary Human Resources."

The American Nurses Association sent Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra a letter on Sept. 1, writing, "it is imperative that the Administration acknowledge and take concrete steps to address ... a crisis-level human resource shortage of nurses that puts our ability to care for patients in jeopardy."

The association urged the administration to "declare a national nurse staffing crisis and take immediate steps to develop and implement both short- and long-term solutions."

The vaccine mandate for healthcare workers "absolutely creates a challenge," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky acknowledged Monday in an interview on "Good Morning America."

"What I would say is [we need] to do some work, to educate these healthcare workers, to meet them where they are, to understand where their hesitancy is so we can get them vaccinated and get them back to work," she said.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Heroes of the past are lepers of today.

 

[Spiteful Crow]

Well yeah. Did you guys actually think that those healthcare workers would be replaced by a bunch of voodoo witch doctors from Haiti?

They won't be replaced at all. If you voted for Joe Biden, you voted to commit suicide.

 

[chiobu]

Sorry if repost but this thread moves too fast and this is too fucking funny

 

[Mr Cuddles]

This explains a lot

The GOP in Georgia is in fact full of undercover progressives

edit: If someone could make this prettier please do

 

[HandsomeDan]

This explains a lot

The GOP in Georgia is in fact full of undercover progressives

edit: If someone could make this prettier please do

...and that is why we will always loose because "we would never dare to stoop to their level". Despite the intense hatred I have for these people, they must be given credit, they are dirty street fighters who do not give up. Our side just couldnt imagine breaking some skulls or breaking some rules ( we are even afraid to simply bend rules) to win.

 

[Jaimas]

Pelosi would only need them if she felt Trump wouldn't respond to an attack, or he wouldn't initiate an attack. That's it for 'legitimate' reasons. Neither fits. The only thing that really fits would be "Pelosi wanted to nuke something, then blame Trump".

....That is fuck motheringly terrifying.

 

[CarlosDanger]

I'm shocked Pelosi hasn't cancelled this vote.

edit: Looking like Republicans might be cucking and will pass this lol.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Keep in mind that the optics on letting the federal government shut down (despite, y'know... everything) are absolutely terrible.

So yeah, they'll fold on this one.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Keep in mind that the optics on letting the federal government shut down (despite, y'know... everything) are absolutely terrible.

So yeah, they'll fold on this one.

The question is: what will they get out of it? If they walk away from this position of power without some political profit, they might as well just rebrand themselves as Political Whores.

 

[Oxous]

I'm shocked Pelosi hasn't cancelled this vote.

edit: Looking like Republicans might be cucking and will pass this lol.

Republicans haven't cucked at all... unless there's enough Republicans voting for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill to offset all the progressives voting no, which I (think) I would know about if that was happening. The bill that Congress did pass has no pork and is purely a stopgap measure to prevent the government from shutting down tonight.

e: Marjorie Green has threatened to primary every Republican representative who votes for the infrastructure bill tonight. Make of that what you will

 

[CarlosDanger]

Republicans haven't cucked at all... unless there's enough Republicans voting for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill to offset all the progressives voting no, which I (think) I would know about if that was happening. The bill that Congress did pass has no pork and is purely a stopgap measure to prevent the government from shutting down tonight.

e: Marjorie Green has threatened to primary every Republican representative who votes for the infrastructure bill tonight. Make of that what you will

That's what it seems like is going to happen. One of the "moderate" democrats said there is "a 1,000% chance this gets passed tonight."

 

[Oats12345]

That's what it seems like is going to happen. One of the "moderate" democrats said there is "a 1,000% chance this gets passed tonight."

But will it be dead in the senate?

 

[Oxous]

But will it be dead in the senate?

Even if passed the House, it'd be dead in the Senate. I'm not believing it'll pass either tbh.

 

[Spiteful Crow]

Marjorie Green has threatened to primary every Republican representative who votes for the infrastructure bill tonight. Make of that what you will

Oh hey an insane rookie congresswoman is threatening to primary people. Where have I seen that before?

 

[Scale Smerch]

That's what it seems like is going to happen. One of the "moderate" democrats said there is "a 1,000% chance this gets passed tonight."

Not necessarily, a lot of the words flying around right now are media distractions or overt prods to try and get their members in line. If Republicans were enough to get this bill through Pelosi would've already announced the voting time.

Since there's a lot of hush hush meetings apparently going on right now to try and reconcile the progressive wants with Manchin's/Sinema's red line the indication to me is that Pelosi doesn't have the votes at all.

 

[verissimus]

But will it be dead in the senate?

Don't count on Romney, Murkowski, or Collins to not wimp out.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

In new guidelines, DHS says people shouldn't be deported solely for being undocumented​

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...dividuals-just-being-undocumented/5935009001/ (https://archive.ph/ZgY6Q)

The Biden Administration issued new guidelines Thursday to immigration officers that say that being an undocumented person should “not alone be the basis” of being deported.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in statement that the department will focus their resources on apprehending and removing undocumented immigrants who are a threat to the national security, public safety and border security of the United States.

“We are guided by the knowledge that there are individuals in our country who have been here for generations and contributed to our country’s well-being, including those who have been on the frontline in the battle against COVID, lead congregations of faith, and teach our children,” Mayorkas said in a statement.

“As we strive to provide them with a path to status, we will not work in conflict by spending resources seeking to remove those who do not pose a threat and, in fact, make our Nation stronger.”

The guideline will go into effect on Nov. 29.

Mayorkas noted in the guidelines that undocumented immigrants who are apprehended at the border or at a port of entry trying to unlawfully enter the U.S. would be considered a threat to border security and could be deported under the new guidelines. The guidelines also note that an undocumented person apprehended in the U.S. after illegally entering the U.S. after Nov. 1, 2020, could be subject to deportation.

Prior to the implementation of the new policies, Mayorkas outlined that there will be extensive training for immigration officers. Mayorkas also noted that there will be a review process on the enforcement decisions of immigration personnel thought the first 90 days that the directives have been implemented.

The new guidelines come as Congress has not been able to pass legislation that would create a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

Democrats on Capitol Hill attempted to include a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, farmworkers and essential workers in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, which was shot down by the Senate parliamentarian. A second attempt to include immigration in the package was also shot down.

Some immigration activists said they will be watching to see whether the new policy will be implemented correctly, while also expressing disappointment that migrants coming to the United States from the southern border will likely not be covered by this policy.

"So much of what we're going to be watching is going to be in the next couple of months, in terms of how this is going to be implemented in local field offices, and what type of accountability measures are going to be put in place," Jacinta Gonzalez, senior campaign organizer at Mijente, said in a call with reporters.

She said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone against DHS leadership in the past when implementing policies, noting that at times ICE, as well as border patrol, have used violence against immigrants.

Gonzalez, and other immigration advocates, specifically noted the incident where border patrol officials chased Haitian migrants on horses earlier this month.

"There is no humane way to prioritize who is targeted for immigration enforcement detention or deportation, where that leads to separation of people from their loved ones and even put lives at risk," said Stacy Suh, program director of Detention Watch Network. "So we urge the fight in administration to change course to bring justice and fairness to the immigration system."