‘Damage is done’: Husband of NY nurse forced to resign speaks out on COVID jab mandate
‘[Even if we
win in court] my point is it doesn’t matter, you’ve destroyed the lives of the
nurses in the meantime,’ the husband said.
Wed Sep 29, 2021 - 2:48 pm
EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The husband of one of the nurses forced out of a
job in New York state over the COVID jab mandate told LifeSiteNews that “the
damage is done,” even if “we’re going to fight it in court and somehow overturn
it.”
“[Even if we win in court] my point is it doesn’t
matter, you’ve destroyed the lives of the nurses in the meantime,” he stressed.
Lewis County General Hospital (where his wife
worked) shut down the maternity ward on September 25 due
to staff shortages exacerbated by the essentially coerced “resignation” of the
unvaccinated.
At least 94,000 healthcare workers in
New York state are facing termination for refusing to receive the jab, leading
Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare a state of emergency Monday, allowing her to call
in the National Guard to replace removed workers.
According to the husband, his wife had come across
many vitriolic comments and threats from people on the internet, including
statements by people who advocate to track down and destroy the lives of
workers who lost, or will lose, their jobs for standing up to the state’s
vaccine discrimination policy.
In explaining his wife’s side of the story, the
husband informed LifeSite that staff shortages have been a consistent problem
for “years” in New York state, and these new discriminatory directives will
only further “exacerbate” the already pressing issue.
He continued by saying that even if all the
maternity staff at Lewis County General Hospital were to have complied and
gotten the jab, the ward would still have been required to shut down because
the more “essential” departments like the “emergency” department are desperate
for workers, and workers from “non-essential” departments like the maternity
ward are being poached to fill the urgent vacancies.
In addition to the social ramifications, the
husband mentioned that the financial ramifications are possibly even more
devastating to many of the now jobless medical professionals.
“Because this is a county hospital, these are state
employees,” he said. “It’s not like a non-vaccinated medical professional can
just go somewhere else; you’ve destroyed the career of the medical
professionals because this is a statewide mandate.”
“Even if they could go somewhere else, they’ve lost
their state retirement,” he explained. “Many of these women were willing to
work at a local hospital for less money because they knew they were going to
get a state retirement, that has all been destroyed now.”
The husband stressed that the mainstream media and
his wife’s ex-employer, Lewis County General Hospital, will never admit that
“at least one doctor” is among the 165 Lewis County staff deciding not to be
injected.
He hinted that excluding to mention that doctors are some of the people against the state mandate is the media’s way of framing the story to suggest to the public that only the “less educated” professionals, such as nurses, are against forced vaccination.
“This is just some of the things we are dealing
with in this one-party state, where conservatives and Christians have just no,
no influence on their government,” he lamented. “This is happening here, and
this is probably one of the most conservative counties in the state, like this
is the last bastion of hope, Lewis County, for New York, and it has been
destroyed in one fell-swoop.”
When asked about the potential for religious
exemptions, the husband told LifeSite that the process was designed to be as
difficult as possible, and involved a series of invasive questions he referred
to as “repugnant.”
“No sooner did my wife and I kind of work through
and say, ‘Okay, here’s going to be our plan to request a religious exemption,
and we were going to use the NCBC (National Catholic Bioethics Center) template
for her,’ they took away [religious exemptions] as an option,” he outlined.
“And of course, that spurred on the St. Thomas More Society lawyers to sue [which led the court
to rule that religious exemptions were allowed].”
“[But] imagine being told about the mandate, having
to deal with that emotional thing, then being told there is no religious
exemption, then being told there is, but it’s so close to the deadline you have
to scramble and put something together, all the while the forms are
[intentionally] making it very difficult for you,” the husband said.
Expressing gratitude for the work being done in the
courts on behalf of the religious objectors to the mandate, the husband
emphasized that although that is “well and good,” in many respects, the “damage
is [already] done.”
“New York state is, for all intents and purposes, a
one-party state,” he said. “This is entirely imposed on us by the Democrats and
big cities, all the big cities, Albany and New York City specifically, and we
have no recourse.”
“I appreciate that Judge Hurd said, ‘Oh no, here’s a
temporary restraining order while we work this out’ … but my point is that it
doesn’t matter, you’ve destroyed the lives of the nurses in the meantime,” he
reiterated.
The husband referenced the importance of “Catholic
moral theology,” which explains that a person ought not cooperate with evil,
even if there is a perceived good attached to doing so. He believes, in
accordance with Catholic teaching, that the CEO has a moral duty to protect his
workers from unjust and illegal government demands, and should in turn have
refused to have any “participation” in the implementation of the medical
apartheid.
Addressing likeminded people, he stressed the point
that “conservatives” need to stop being “failures” and start “conserving”
instead of capitulating to demands from “the left,” citing that over the past
ten years in particular, these concessions have been steadily “destroying
America.”
Gov. Hochul, a radically pro-abortion
Democrat, used an odd amount of religious language to
promote the reception of the abortion-tainted vaccines to a group of
Christians in Brooklyn on Sunday. “I need you to be my apostles,” Hochul said.
“I need you to go out and talk about it and say, ‘We owe this to each other. We
love each other.’”
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