COVID vaccine Mandate
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#601
There is too much unknown and contradictory statementsElias Combs (Pittsfield, 2022-10-28)
#603
This bivalent booster was given EUA authorization after it was approved off of the data of approximately 18 mice (no the trial of wuhan/BA1 is not equivalent to this booster that is wuhan/BA4/5). There is simply no data that this booster boosts antibody levels beyond the previous generation of boosters (two preprints call this into question and are easy to find )There is no proof of a reduction in a risk of severe disease at this point with this "bivalent booster" because it was approved under EUA status and we are using surrogate markers of boosted antibodies to suggest this might equate to a reduction in the risk of disease for an individual .
I believe in patient autonomy . I do not believe we should mandate this vaccine on anyone .it is not good medicine , it is now evident that this vaccine cannot prevent infection nor do I believe it is ethical to require anyone to be mandated to take a vaccine which is approved only under EUA status. The decision to vaccinate yourself with a product which does not offer a third party benefit (i.e. preventing infection ) should be a personal choice between a patient and a physician weighing the risks vs benefits on an individual level .
I do not believe my colleagues should be forced to recieve a vaccine approved under EUA status with demonstrably no clear benefit to others .
Erik Adler (Pittsfield, 2022-10-28)
#607
The vaccines side effects have made me sicker than Covid. Also, there are not enough studies done on the long term effects of taking all these booster shots. Why are healthcare workers only being required to get the boosters while the rest of the world has a choice? I believe we should all have a right to decide for ourselves.Sarah Fellmann (Pittsfield, 2022-10-29)
#610
I feel we are loosing the rights to our bodies, a company should not be able to threaten if we don’t get vaccinated.Jessica Murphy (Pittsfield, 2022-10-29)
#615
Y’all are so about my body my choice except for when it comes to letting people decide whether or not put a foreign substance in their body. It’s not their choice? It’s now mandatory. The BMC administration is abusing their power and not taking into consideration people’s beliefs and health issues. I also find it funny that it’s being mandated only a few weeks before Christmas. If staff don’t comply to BMCs dehumanizing new “rule”, the administration is going to fire you and you won’t have the money you need for the holidays. Ironic right? Don’t let their selfish, manipulative new rule take away your human right. Us at BMC have to come together and fight for our beliefs.Leah Young (Adams, 2022-10-29)
#619
I believe that this is a valid, factual letter in support of many people that I care about, and who are excellent healthcare professionals.Aimee Clish Magovern (East Otis, 2022-10-29)
#620
My husband (and MANY friends) works at BMC and I feel this is a personal choice - and should NOT be mandated by ANYONE!Judy Coons (Cheshire, 2022-10-29)
#621
I’ve been the whole natural immunity works and not a vaccine that is approved in 3-6 months. When it takes a minimum of 18 months of trial and error. It’s all a conspiracy too make more $ for pharmaceutical companies. Cause then why isn’t cancer cured yet??Ron Kinnas (Pittsfield , 2022-10-29)
#622
I am signing because forcing someone to get a vaccine that is so understudied, and can possibly cause harm, is not acceptable and should not be allowed. Health care workers work hard to keep their patients safe and that’s what masks are for. Not vaccines.Linda Curtiss (Otis, 2022-10-29)
#623
My daughter Jennifer Thomas worked at Fairview Hospital for many years. She loved her job and patients loved her. What she and her family lost is inconceivable. Many lost everything they worked very hard for. It was cruel.This was a slap in the face for families who had withstood the pandemic and cared for the sick. I was appalled that BMC could do what they did to their loyal employees. It is BEYOND ACCEPTABLE.
Renee Carl (Otis, 2022-10-29)
#628
I don't believe in being being mandated for a vaccine when we have the appropriate PPE to keep us safe at workDorothy Liebenow (Pittsfield, 2022-10-29)
#632
No one should be forced to receive further Covid immunizations.Becky Cellana (North Adams, 2022-10-29)
#633
The overall blind ignorance of the medical community on the issue of the safety of the vaccines is beyond overwhelming. Anybody with half a brain knows that this was about money and control and every single person who is still supporting vaccine mandates is in direct violation of the Nuremberg codes.Auron Stark (Pittsfield , 2022-10-29)
#637
I do not want any further covid vaccines. I work all through the pandemic and took the vaccine to protect my patients and cowork. At this point, I do not want any further vaccination for this particular ever changing virusErin Boyle (Pittsfield, 2022-10-29)
#641
It’s not right to make someone do something they don’t want toErin Latimer (Pittsfield , 2022-10-29)
#642
I do not believe we should be forced to do something we are not comfortable with.Tammi Sherman (Pittsfield, 2022-10-29)
#643
I believe these “healthcare hero’s” which worked during the entire pandemic reusing an N95 up to 3 weeks can decide on their own to get the vaccine booster or not. This shouldn’t be mandated. Masks are the prevention to getting COVID at this time correct? The staff is all wearing masks….so is the mandate to try to control what staff does outside of work?Lindsay Kuc (Chicopee, 2022-10-29)
#651
Signing this because this world wide shitshow of lies and manipulation for greed and power had gone on way too long and if people still believe all the bullshit, they are a sad type of human. Regardless, any medical , political or personal belief or decision regarding what goes into your own body should be 110% a private personal choice and never regulated by anyone. Unless you are in jail, a coma or a commi supporter then be American and be free !Laperle Gregory (Cheshire, 2022-10-29)
#659
I dont want the booster. I was sick from the last one. We were good enough to work through the pandemic without any protection except a mask. Why do we now have to be forced to get this booster or loose our jobs? NOT RIGHT. We shouldnt be forced to get it.Diane Burdick (Cheshire, 2022-10-30)
#660
We all have rights to protect ourselvesJoseph Ciuk (Adams , 2022-10-30)
#662
People should have a choice.Ashley Hessler (Pittsfield, 2022-10-30)
#663
I think there was no scientific basis for the mandates, and medicine should always strive to do no harm.Several people I know were harmed within 10 days of either Pfizer or Moderna shots. My husband has had Covid twice now despite being fully “ vaccinated and boosted “
It would be different if the shot actually worked to prevent transmission or illness.
Marie Casey (Seattle , 2022-10-30)
#666
People have the right to be inform about medical procedures. Science is never settled. It's your body not anyone else's. The health care industry is for profit not about care or health.Scott Mc Ginnis (Pittsfield, 2022-10-30)
#675
I feel like everyone should have a choice. We as a society are allowed to not have our children vaccinated and in turn they can not attend public schools. We have a choice of whether or not we get the flu vaccine. We should have this choice as well.Eliza Foley (Adams, 2022-10-30)
#679
If I don't get the shot, I'm going to lose my job. It's my body and I choose not to have it. It's my GOD giving right what I want to do with my body.Yvonne Congleton (Readsboro, 2022-10-30)
#680
It’s my body, my choice. Honestly, I think mask, hand washing and gloves are enough. I have worked in the er for two years and have never gotten Covid. That’s is only because I take the right steps to protect myself.Betty Klash Welsh (Pittsfield , 2022-10-30)
#682
I’m signing this because the ppl where lied to. Bmc you aided in harming millions there was no list of ingredients on the bottles.Casey Ivery-mayotte (Pittsfield, 2022-10-30)
#683
My mom and cousin should not need to get their booster if they don’t want to put it in their bodies.Hailey Sorensen (Pittsfield , 2022-10-30)
#684
I value the steps BMC has taken to keep us healthy, however I also value people’s ability to choose for themselves which vaccines are for them based on their own medical history.Sushannah Laurange (Chatham, 2022-10-30)
#687
My body my choiceSara Voyles (Pittsfield , 2022-10-30)
#690
My mom is a grown women who makes decisions for 5 people. She shouldn’t have to listen to anyone.Isabella MacDonald (Pittsfield, 2022-10-30)
#693
I don’t feel the booster has had enough testing, and therefore should not be mandated.Tammie Geysens (Norfolk, 2022-10-30)
#698
MY BODY MY CHOICE.. I WORKED THE FIRST 2 YEARS OF THE PANDEMIC WITH NO SHOT AND WAS FINE. WHEN I WAS MADE TO GET THE SHOT I ENDED UP WITH COVID AND WAS SICKER THAN MY WHOLE HOUSE WHO ENDED UP WITH COVID. NONE OF THEM WERE VAXCINATED!!! WE WORK HARD FOR THIS HOSPITAL DAY IN AND DAY OUT AND THIS IS HOW WE GET REPAIED. ITS WRONG..AUTUMN STEELE (PITTSFIELD , 2022-10-31)
#702
These mandates are TRASH. Nothing short of power and control. We the people will not stand for this.Nichole Lapham (Middleboro , 2022-10-31)
#704
There is no need for an experimental shot to be mandated for anyone. Especially, a man made virus.Stephanie Jordan (Princeton , 2022-10-31)
#707
I was terminated from my job due to a vaccine mandate in my Public School System. My body, My choice.Kim Oravec (Holyoke, 2022-10-31)
#709
It's my body and I want to CHOOSE what I'm putting in it.Unconscionable that it's between us either getting the booster or being fired!!
Stacey Nelkin (Great Barrington, 2022-10-31)
#710
I never had to get any boosters and now out of all the ones they have come out in the past years work is forcing me to get it or I’ll get fired. If I get covid my work does not pay for me to be out so unless you are gonna pay me when I get covid I will not get the booster vaccineTori Hallett (Pittsfield, 2022-10-31)
#712
I’m signing because I received the first booster shot and it made me so sick. I have been healthy otherwise and I don’t feel I should be mandated to receive another vaccine that will potentially make me I’ll and lose time from work again.Rene Batho (Cheshire, 2022-10-31)
#713
I think it’s wrong after all of these people showed up everyday to work to lose their job over a vaccine. It lessons symptoms at best it doesn’t prevent Covid.Kristie Prew (Lenox Dale, 2022-10-31)
#714
I do not feel we should be mandated to get this shot that nobody knows anything about. You are forcing something on all the people that did nothing but help your organization and we still get paid crap money to where we can barely survive just to benefit all the big wigs. Plus I work from home, remote workers definitely should not be forced to get this shot. Do better BMC, you are doing nothing but stomping all of your employees into the ground.Sherasia Maxon (Stephentown , 2022-10-31)
#715
Vaccine mandates are illegal and violate my constitutional rights as an American citizen. Additionally this experimental cocktail doesn’t even prevent infection and does not fit any definition of the word Vaccine.Hilary Gentile (Manchester, 2022-10-31)
#716
I feel I am being forced into thisPaula Schultheis (Pittsfield , 2022-10-31)
#718
Total farce and not only being forced, but only offered on a Friday and great privacy getting these forced injections in the middle of the cafeteria while people are eating lunch!!!!Terri Flood (Pittsfield, 2022-10-31)
#720
This booster mandate will accomplish absolutely nothing except the further loss of highly qualified employees of BHS.John Bryan (Hancock , 2022-10-31)
#721
Does BMC want to have any nurses left????Norine Panetti (Pittsfield, 2022-10-31)
#722
I thought this was still America, where we had a choice!!!Rick Panetti (Pittsfield, 2022-10-31)
#725
I follow to the science, not the rhetoric.Susan Serpa (Worcester, 2022-11-01)
#729
Since people are having adverse reactions to the vaccine such as death and heart problems, this mandate will do everything except save lives. I used to think healthcare professionals had our best interest in mind, so here’s your chance. Do not fire your best workers.Brendan Mackechnie (Chester, 2022-11-01)
#730
Vaccines should never be mandated no matter what. Regardless of their efficacy.Zach Mackechnie (Westfield, 2022-11-01)
#731
The risks of mRNA vaccines greatly outweigh the benefits. Risking strokes and heart attacks do not seem a fair requirement for employment. The Novavax vaccine seems to be a much safer alternative.David Goodfellow (Pittsfield, 2022-11-01)
#733
I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE MANDATE.CRYSTAL SHERMAN (Pittsfield, MA 01201, USA, 2022-11-01)
#735
Everyone should have the right to decide what goes into their body.Coke Forbes (Stockbridge , 2022-11-01)
#736
I'm signing because it's my body and should be my choice!Krystal Poulen (Adams, 2022-11-01)
#738
I don't want to get any more shots. We shouldn't be forced to get something that is obviously not working.LISA FISHER (WASHINGTON, 2022-11-01)
#744
I do not believe a company should be allowed to decide if an employee requires a vaccine, especially since studies have shown the covid-19 vaccines nor the boosters provide immunity from infection and transmission.Jasmine Feliz (Lowell, 2022-11-01)
#747
No one should be forced to take a vaccine that has no long term study and is experimental. Not to mention the increase of strokes, blood clots, cardiac events in those that have chosen to be vaxxed.Kara Hemingway (Duxbury, 2022-11-01)
#749
I don’t agree with this booster being a mandateChristine Rodriguez (Adams , 2022-11-01)
#751
No one should be able to lose their jobs because of a shot that doesn’t even prevent transmission! My body my choice remember that?Tom Francesconi (Cheshire , 2022-11-01)
#755
I’m signing this because I believe everyone should be able to make their own decisions and not be forced to inject an experimental drug into their bodies!Jean Tatro (Clarksburg, 2022-11-01)
#760
The vaccine has proven to be an absolute failure. It does not prevent the contraction of Covid nor does it prevent the transmission of Covid. One is forced to wonder what is the real purpose of the promotion of the vaccine. Money and Power perhaps?Larry Alfonso (Pittsfield, 2022-11-02)
#766
No vaccines or boosters should be mandatory.Susan Kimball (Dalton, 2022-11-02)
#767
It is not fair that our employer threatens to terminate us employees if we do not get this Covid booster as other hospitals are not mandating this as we have already all have been vaccinated for Covid when the pandemic was in full swing in which many of us emploees were very skeptical to receive and now it has decreased tremendously. Getting this vaccine does not reduce transmission. It should be the individuals rights of whether or not to receive this booster not a threat to terminate their job.Debra Leja (North Adams, 2022-11-02)
#771
No one should be forced to put anything in their bodies if they don’t want toStacy Cloutier (Athol, 2022-11-02)
#773
The shot does not stop infection or transmission of the virus. The NY Supreme Court ruled that it is simple coercion and that anyone let go due to these mandates must be reinstated with back pay. Italy also has no mandate for health care workers now, despite starting as one of the most mandated governments in the world. Starting a mandate now is ill-advised, and the science does not back up this action.Amanda Craven (Suffield, 2022-11-02)
#780
Medical decisions are personal decisions, and no one's employment should be contingent on what boils down to an individual's specific risk assessment.Evan Swan (Pittsfield, MA, 2022-11-02)
#787
"MY BODY, MY CHOICE"!!!Joanne Pratt-Neri (Greenfield Center, 2022-11-02)
#790
My daughter nearly died from the booster. She was a healthy, active, physically fit 18 year old and now suffers from side effects that will probably follow her through life. I don’t feel this booster should be mandated because it does not prevent you from getting or transmitting COVID. It should be a choice not a requirement.Donna Warner (Petersburgh , 2022-11-02)
#791
There is plentiful data from countries around the world, including VAERS data from the CDC, that indicates serious vaccine injury and death can be attributed on a grand scale to the shots. Pfizer has admitted that transmission is not prevented by the vaccines. In the absence of the prevention of transmission and the significant risk of vaccine injury, the staff should not be forced to choose a booster over employment nor should they have been forced to vaccinate initially. Patient safety has been compromised through the unnecessary dismissal of knowledgeable employees and will continue to be compromised as a result of continued efforts to force vaccinate.Michelle Francesconi (Cheshire, 2022-11-02)
#792
No one should be forced to receive any vaccine they don’t want. My daughter received her original vaccine in order to keep her job and pay her bills and has since suffered health consequences since. This is a sad “Thank you & Happy Holidays” to your staff as well as the population you serve. This hospital appears not to be most concerned with serving those in their small community but with grants and the bottom dollar. Who will take care of those around us when our own neighbors and family members are being fired for using autonomy in their own health care decisions?; High paid travel staff with no ties to us or our are and those around us. Sad times for the people of the Berkshires and surrounding areas that rely on this healthcare system.Kyle Morey (Ancram, 2022-11-02)
#793
This is disgusting!Aren’t these employees humans?
Have they no right to choose if they want to participate in this human testing?
Contact your union, contact your political leaders, flood them with calls, texts and emails.
Employees Are Humans Too (Pittsfield , 2022-11-02)
#794
I hope this doesn’t close the best hospital within a two hour drive.Administration- think about what you are doing to your employees. I’m sure this has to do with money but you won’t make any of that anyway if you have to shut your doors.
James P (Copake, 2022-11-03)
#795
The fix is in already, BMC has already emailed their staff that this will be a yearly requirement. BMC must know something the FDA and the CDC doesn't know since these boosters are not approved for this purpose!!BMC staff please get lawyers involved! BMC already admitted they plan to make this a yearly requirement which would mean they want to force a product on you in a way that is beyond what the EUA allows for. This is ILLEGAL. Contact Dr. Poppers Group for help. Her group was very successful in Boston.https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/
Pfizer hasn't even finished their myocardium studies!!!! this is criminal!! this is an EUA product you cannot force this on your employees.
The booster is associated with increased risk of infection.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.31.22281756v1
Sub-clinical myocardium damage is very common.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vveMHtVk_mY
Rob- Concerned Citizen (Pittsfield, 2022-11-03)
#796
I just heard about this - I am so sorry that this is happening to all the staff that provides such great care to me and my family.Sandy P (Copake, 2022-11-03)
#797
How can patients trust a hospital that experiments on their employees? Forces them to put stuff in their bodies that have only proven to harm.This is the equivalent of raping their employees, hold them down, threaten them, force them to have something in their bodies they don’t want. Gross.
I hope they lose millions!
Truly Disgusted (Hometown , 2022-11-03)
#798
Just another dollar for big pharmaceutical companies and BMCMike J (Pittsfield , 2022-11-03)
#799
My daughter works at BMC and was forced to have the original vaccine. She had nothing but health problems after. And even with the issues that the vaccine caused, she still put on a happy face and went to work caring for her patients. Now they expect her to add another dose of poison to her body?I won’t argue the effectiveness or the risks of this vaccine because I don’t know enough about it but sadly, I don’t think that anyone does- including BMC, the big drug companies, our government, the FDA and the CDC.
I can’t believe in America that this could happen. The state of emergency has been lifted so that excuse no longer works.
This is just wrong!
Eric M (Elizaville, 2022-11-03)
#800
This mandate is wrong!Joanna Perry (Lenox, 2022-11-03)