Did his wife get vaccinated?
At this rate DeSantis is gonna start fining people for wearing masks.
Guess weāll have a good case study in two governors, Inslee and DeSantis, in handling of the delta variant. Wonder which state will come out on top?
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So basically nobody else is getting the vaccine?
Nope nope nope.
Agreed.
No, the religious / medical exemption arenāt the usual bullshit that they do in schools. My wife works for another state agency in HR and says it wonāt be easy to get an exemption.
Dear fellow state employee,
I am writing today to let you know that I am requiring, by issuance of a proclamation, that all employees who work in state service for executive cabinet agencies must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 18, 2021, along with on-site contractors and volunteers. I have also mandated vaccination in some private health and long-term care services. I am taking this action pursuant to my emergency powers as Governor of the State of Washington found at RCW 43.06.220.
This is not a decision I made lightly. I directed my staff to listen deeply to stakeholders, including labor organizations and department managers, to understand the many challenges facing state government as we respond to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of you are critical frontline workers and serve the public in positions which were not able to be performed remotely. You have been courageous beyond measure. Many of you shifted your approach and managed to achieve continuity of services from your homes in a way we have never asked of you before. This was hard and you persevered in providing excellent service to the state in extraordinarily difficult times while some of you experienced personal and professional losses due to the disease. This has been a grueling period for all.
Now, we have the most effective tools available to operate safe workplaces and strengthen our commitment to the public ā the COVID-19 vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccines have been deemed safe and effective by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and comparable agencies around the world. Timing couldnāt be better because we are also facing a new strain of the disease that is more easily transmitted and more aggressive, especially for unvaccinated persons. Hospitals are jammed and health care personnel are exhausted.
In arriving at my decision on how best to keep employees and customers safe, I considered permitting an employee to elect to test on a regular routine rather than mandating state employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, but ultimately determined that option was not suitable. I would like you to understand that thinking.
- First, we have implemented a routine testing process in many of our 24-7 facilities for unvaccinated staff and it has not prevented outbreaks. Unfortunately, outbreaks have continued to occur affecting employees, clients and families and we have lost dedicated staff. We owe it to those in our care and their families to do everything in our power to prevent these events. We owe it to you, our employees, and your families as well.
- Increasingly, the scale of a testing approach to across the entire state enterprise is costly and administratively burdensome. Sustaining a strategy which permits staff to test weekly would cost more than $66 million per year and still would not provide the protection in our work and care settings that we need.
- As we head into another surge of COVID-19 outbreaks across our state, driven by a rapidly increasing presence of the DELTA variant, it is more important than ever that we all act now to protect ourselves, our co-workers and our communities.
I understand we may not agree, but I hope this letter has helped you to understand the thinking which led to this decision. I expect your agency leadership will be communicating with you on details and, where applicable, with exclusive bargaining representatives on the impacts of this mandate. Our agencies will also work diligently to support individuals with medical or religious beliefs to require accommodation from this directive. I am confident the time we have between now and October 18 is adequate to effectively implement this requirement and do what is needed to protect the safety of Washingtonians.
Thank you for your compassion and service. Together, we can combat COVID-19.
Very truly yours,
Jay Inslee
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Sorry, have not asked. Iām going to guess no, but not sure.
No worries. But, I think there are a lot of vaxxed wife/unvaxxed husband pairs running around, the same way 95% of the time if you see a couple with one masked and one without itās the man without.
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Uh, things not going great in my county. This week is the highest number of cases by 200:
Guess my county is going to get to herd immunity one way or another.
Cliffs: Jizz levels remain the same after mRNA vaccines
Jury still out on whether a Covid infection reduces jizz levels (fertility)
Vid here if you wanna hear a Dr put the report in laymans terms
Breaking: Arkansans can count as high as eight.
https://twitter.com/ArkansasOnline/status/1424847253487882249?s=19
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Yāall heard about the redneck vascectomy?
Redneck with 4 kids and expectant wife goes to town Dr and says āDoc, I cannot afford all these kids, canāt I get me when of them operations say I canāt make babies anymore?ā
Doc says, āsure but it will cost you $5,000 to go to big city hospitalā
Redneck says, āshit doc I only got $50ā
Doc says āhang onā. He goes into his old army footlocker and comes back with a hand grenade and tells the redneck to pull the pin and count to 10, but to do it outside.
Happy, the redneck leaves.
The nurse asks the Dr what that was gonna accomplish. He tells her to look out in the parking lot.
Summary
Sure enough the redneck pulls the pin and counts to 5 on his right hand.
He then puts the grenade in between his legs so he can use his left hand to keep counting to 10ā¦.
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How odd that OFS didnt affect the numbers from June to August.
No possible idea why that could be.
There is a non-covid stomach bug going around the west coast right now.
Meanwhile in Florida
Over the weekend, Florida didnāt merely break its single-day COVID-19 case record ā the state shattered it, according to numbers reported by the Centers or Disease Control and Prevention Monday.
The CDC halved the weekend data sent by the state of Florida, 56,633 new cases, and put 28,316 new cases Saturday and 28,317 new cases Sunday. Either number blasts the state past the previous high of 23,903 established on Friday by 18.5%.
Along with that infection record, the state set another record, 13,977 current hospitalizations, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
what the fuck