Anonymous ID: 797bc2 Sept. 23, 2021, 5:02 p.m. No.14646347   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6359 >>6369 >>6432 >>6628 >>6836 >>6913

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/mobile/ottawa-hospital-requiring-visitors-to-be-fully-vaccinated-1.5597308

Ottawa Hospital requiring visitors to be fully vaccinated

OTTAWA – You will need to be fully vaccinated to visit patients at the Ottawa Hospital.

The hospital has announced that starting Monday, it will require proof of vaccination for visitors entering the hospital.

"This is to ensure the safety of everyone in the hospital,” a statement said.

The hospital says the vaccination requirement is only for visitors, not patients visiting the hospital for appointments or medical care.

People accompanying someone to the hospital for a medical appointment will need to be fully vaccinated, but there will be exceptions for some circumstances.

The Ottawa Hospital announced in August that all staff must be fully vaccinated to work at Ottawa's largest hospital.

All staff must have received their first dose by Sept. 7, and their second by Oct. 15.

The hospital said it would ensure that all staff who have not yet been vaccinated receive education and consultation on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines to ensure they are fully informed. Those who have not yet been vaccinated during this transition period would be tested for COVID-19.

"After October 15, TOH will examine the vaccination rate of our staff and determine whether further measures are required to ensure the safety of our health-care environment," the hospital said.

Anonymous ID: 797bc2 Sept. 23, 2021, 5:04 p.m. No.14646359   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6386 >>6432 >>6628 >>6836 >>6913

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VISITORS MUST BE VACCINATED AT CHEO

The Ottawa Hospital is the second Ottawa hospital to implement a mandatory vaccination policy for visitors.

As of Sept. 22, CHEO is requiring all visitors to be fully vaccinated to enter the facility. All CHEO entrance screens include a question about vaccination status.

"Parents/caregivers are asked to be vaccinated to protect those they interact with while at CHEO," said the children's hospital on its website.

"Those who are currently unvaccinated or partially vaccinated will still be permitted to come to CHEO. As important members of our care team, we will never create a barrier for parents/caregivers to accompany their child to CHEO."

CHEO says unvaccinated visitors will be escorted to your child/youth's bedside and you will not be allowed in common spaces such as the cafeteria, coffee shop or pharmacy.

Anonymous ID: 797bc2 Sept. 23, 2021, 5:06 p.m. No.14646376   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6628 >>6836 >>6913

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/kingston-ont-hospital-suspends-136-employees-without-pay-for-violating-vaccine-mandate-1.5597765

Kingston, Ont. hospital suspends 136 employees without pay for violating vaccine mandate

Kingston’s research and teaching hospital has placed 136 employees on two-week, unpaid leave for failing to comply with the hospital's new COVID-19 vaccination policy.

The new policy at Kingston Health Sciences Centre requires all staff, physicians and learners to provide proof of having received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, or a documented medical reason for not being vaccinated, by Wednesday.

Ninety-five per cent of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre's employees have met the first dose requirement, and fewer than 10 employees have been granted a medical exemption.

"As of September 22, 136 KHSC employees are in non-compliance with our immunization policy and have been placed on an unpaid two-week administrative leave," said KHSC in a statement to CTV News Ottawa.

"Following those two weeks, further disciplinary may be taken, up to and including termination, if those individuals cannot show proof of vaccination or cannot produce a valid medical exemption."

The Kingston Health Sciences Centre did not say how many of the 136 employees suspended are nurses or physicians.

KHSC COVID-19 incident commander Elizabeth Bardon says the policy to suspend without pay is necessary to avoid an outbreak like the Kingston General Hospital faced earlier this summer.

“Having staff who have to go off work because they’ve been exposed, or worse are bringing COVID in and exposing their patients and our co-workers is just not something that we feel we can manage during COVID, and so this the way we’re going as many other hospitals in the province are," said Bardon on Thursday afternoon.

Bardon says the employees placed on leave will have two weeks to show their proof of vaccination or provide a medical exemption. Those who don't comply could be terminated.

"We have informed people that they will go into a disciplinary stream for failing to abide by a policy. And we will work out the next steps with our people services team over the next couple of weeks," said Bardon.

There are 5,000 employees at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, including nurses and doctor.

The Kingston Health Sciences Centre includes Kingston General Hospital, the Hotel Dieu Hospital and the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario.

"As an organization, we strongly believe that vaccination is the top preventive strategy against COVID-19, in conjunction with screening, wearing personal protective equipment such as masks, and physical distancing," said KHSC.

"As health-care providers, we have an ethical and professional obligation to take all necessary steps to keep our patients, families and each other safe from COVID-19."

Anonymous ID: 797bc2 Sept. 23, 2021, 5:26 p.m. No.14646487   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>14646456

>over 40,000 feet?

it would take flak approximately 40 seconds to reach your altitude.

Pull twenty degrees left or right, and five hundred feet up or down before then, and you can fight their calculation / prediction.

Anonymous ID: 797bc2 Sept. 23, 2021, 6:06 p.m. No.14646801   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6814 >>6892 >>6894

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>https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/betty-reid-soskin.htm

Betty Reid Soskin

Betty Reid Soskin is an East Bay-based civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman. Through her work at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park, she has also become a leading spokesperson for the diverse experiences of domestic war-effort workers during World War II. She was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit, Michigan on September 22, 1921. However, she recalls her earliest memories from living amongst her family’s Creole community in New Orleans between 1924 and 1927, where she survived the “Great Flood” of 1927.1 After the flood, Soskin’s family relocated to Oakland, one of thousands of Black families who moved west during what came to be called the Great Migration. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since.

In 1945, Soskin founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the California Bay Area, Reid’s Records in Berkeley, with her first husband Mel Reid. Reid’s Records had a humble beginning, with Soskin selling records through a garage door window, but it transformed into a Bay Area institution run by her children until its closing in 2019. She has had a lifelong love of music and is an accomplished songwriter. In 1964, Soskin wrote “Your Hand In Mine” about the civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, and in 2018 performed the song with the Oakland Symphony and Chorus. During the sixties, a period during which her performance and composition of music and poetry expanded, Soskin also marched with and fundraised for the Black Panthers.2 She maintained, however, that music was her primary means of processing the era of increased prejudice and political unrest. Even Betty’s work with the National Park Service was inspired by her long career as an activist and musician.

Soskin began her career with the National Park Service shortly after attending a presentation on the development of Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California in 2000. The park’s then-superintendent Judy Hart was surprised by Soskin’s proclamation that “I have such a love-hate relationship with Rosie!”3 Soskin knew first-hand that the story of women who worked in wartime industry also included experiences with racial segregation and discrimination and that these stories needed to be included in the park’s interpretive material and historical documentation. Soskin went to work for the United States Air Force in 1942. After learning that she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white, Soskin confronted a lieutenant who replied that everyone at the base was “willing” to work with her.4 Not wanting to be merely tolerated, Soskin promptly and defiantly left the Air Force and went to work as a file clerk at Local A-36, the Black auxiliary lodge of the International Boilermakers Union in Richmond, CA.

Believing that she had a responsibility to share with park visitors what she and other Black women had experienced during World War II, Soskin officially joined the National Park Service as a ranger in 2004.5 She quickly became a legend at the park and well beyond. President Barack Obama presented Soskin with a presidential commemorative coin at the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in 2015, and the following year she was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018. In the forward to Soskin’s memoir, friend and relative J. Douglas Allen-Taylor tells readers that though Soskin is often celebrated for her longevity, it is her remarkable ability to weave her music, storytelling, activism, and history together that inspires those who know her.

 

https://cbreaux.blogspot.com/

Anonymous ID: 797bc2 Sept. 23, 2021, 6:08 p.m. No.14646813   🗄️.is đź”—kun

On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, I was photographed by the great Annie Liebovitz, and what a day it was!

The car picked me up at around 8:15 that morning for the short drive to the Visitor Education Center of our Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front Historical National Park. I'm taking the time to type this in as complete detail as possible in order to convince myself that it really happened.

After a brief greeting with this gracious woman, we were driven to a point on the scenic Richmond shoreline where I'd never before been. This magnificent background is a mere 5 minutes, walking, from our Visitor Center. It is dramatic; unexpectedly beautiful, though anywhere along the Bay Trail can be surprising and wilder than one might anticipate. The rock formations, though probably landscaped beyond what might find in a more natural state, are nonetheless beautiful and convincingly random.

This site would have served during WWII as Kaiser Shipyard II, where some of the 747 ships were built and launched in 3 years and 8 months. An achievement that helped to bring the war to an end by out-producing the enemy.

That history came alive for me on this day, alive in ways previously dimmed by time … .

Fortunately, Bryan Gibel, producer/director of the upcoming documentary, "Sign my name to freedom" came along to photograph Annie and me at work. Depending upon what gets left on the cutting-room floor, this just might make it into his film.

I have no idea when this work will be published, or, what is its intended use, but at this point I can't say that I very much care. It was the experience of meeting Ms. Liebovitz – and "disappearing into the art of another" that sings to me!

She is on an assignment for Google (I believe) using the Google Pixel 3 XL, photographing men and women who are "having an impact" in their time (according to Blaine Edens of Soapbox Productions). She'd come from a shoot at the Museum created by Bryan Stevenson in Montgomery, Alabama – where the history of lynchings is memorialized through those unforgettable heart-rending sculptures.

I'm hoping to visit there someday, and at the rate things are going … .

Can you imagine that not happening?