On the question of vax mandates for staff in nursing homes, a core issue is that many of these jobs are very low paying and that's driving labor shortages. And vax rates are in many cases low for a variety of reasons in the working class communities that work in these positions.
2/ That's not an easy problem to solve at the facility level. But the big picture solution is to increase wages. But there's a tendency in these conversations to point to the roots of vax hesitancy in these communities (very real) and economic privation to push back against ...
3/ the idea of mandates. These counters are very valid but the have the tendency to end up at we'll make sure your ailing mother isn't being wheeled around by an unvaccinated person with COVID once we get social democracy. But that's not really workable or just.
4/ I have I guess the 'privilege' of having parents who are dead and in-laws who are comparatively healthy. So I'm not experiencing this directly. But if I had a loved one in one of these facilities I'm seriously, fuck that. That's really intolerable.
5/ You need to do everything humanly possible with regs and the law and money to make sure extremely vulnerable populations aren't willfully being given COVID and then once you've maxed out on that front start working on the roots of the problem.
6/ Late in life decrepitude and chronic illness doesn't discriminate. And it's more marginalized communities most likely to be in facilities with low vax rates.
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