A Guest Opinion by Ed Humphreys Our hospitals, our churches, our businesses, and our children all face the onerous onslaught from the conformist movement in Idaho. I\u2019m grateful to the great nurses, physicians, and other staff at St. Luke\u2019s who did an incredible job helping us to bring our baby girl, Ruby, into this world. They were great people. After many private chats with different nurses during our recent hospital stay, I\u2019ve walked away with a unique perspective.<\/p>\n Many nurses expressed to me that they feel it\u2019s wrong for the hospital to force them to undergo an experimental medical treatment as a requirement for their employment. Some have extensive experience and tenure, yet their loyalty is rewarded by telling them to shut up and get whatever medical treatment they\u2019re told to. It\u2019s the height of arrogance when corporate executives feel they\u2019re the most qualified to make healthcare decisions for healthcare professionals. It\u2019s heartbreaking and immoral.<\/p>\n Sadly, much of our leadership in Idaho and in America today celebrate mass conformity and any question from us regular folks are scorned as ignorant. But conformity and conscience don\u2019t go hand in hand. Forcing others to undergo medical treatments to satisfy your need for control is wrong, plain, and simple.<\/p>\n Not only is the need to control your neighbor an immoral one but equally distasteful is the obvious conflict of interest in which the hospitals have undertaken. St. Luke\u2019s alone has received almost $130 million from the federal Health & Human Services Provider Relief Fund.<\/p>\n On top of that is a COVID-19 Coverage Assistance Fund which guarantees healthcare providers money for each vaccine administered.<\/p>\n Herein lies the conflict of interest; being compensated to administer an experimental medical treatment and then mandating your workforce to receive that same treatment.<\/p>\n This issue isn\u2019t just a political one for my family, the concern hits home. My wife, Holly, is a Nurse Anesthetist at St. Luke\u2019s and she is currently breastfeeding our newborn baby girl. Holly received an email from St. Luke\u2019s which effectively told her to get the vaccine or don\u2019t come back to work from maternity leave. Interesting to me how a healthcare provider could have so many processes in place to address postpartum depression and then also feel perfectly comfortable telling a healing mother that her job is at risk if she doesn\u2019t expose her newborn baby to an experimental medical treatment.<\/p>\n The legislature MUST act immediately to prohibit employer mandated experimental medical treatments. About 100,000 Idahoans work at only 10 employers in the whole state. St. Lukes and St. Al\u2019s collectively have about 20,000 (excluding contractors). When your entire workforce is approximately 750,000 then it\u2019s clear this is a huge problem. Do the right thing, protect Idahoan\u2019s ability to protect themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Calls on Legislature to Act Immediately to Stop Mandated Vaccines A Guest Opinion by Ed Humphreys GOP Candidate for Idaho Governor Our hospitals, our churches, our businesses, and our children all face the onerous onslaught from the conformist movement in Idaho. I\u2019m grateful to the great nurses, physicians, and other staff at St. Luke\u2019s who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":10742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,243],"tags":[962],"class_list":["post-10806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-covid-19","cat-1-id","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17590,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions\/17590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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