This tabloid is owned by the far-right Sinclair Broadcast Group, and has been criticized by Media Matters for America for airing COVID-19 misinformation. This is a rehashing of the NY Post article (a week ago).
> New York lost nearly 34,000 health care workers due to the vaccination requirement
Note how vague "lost" is here. It includes workers that quit, retired, etc.
it was up to employers, rather than the governor, to determine what happened to employees who did not comply
> "I think everybody who goes into a healthcare facility or nursing home should have the assurance, and their family members should know, that we have taken all the steps to protect the public's health," Hochul said. "And that includes making sure that those who come in contact with them at their time of most vulnerability, when they are sick or elderly, will not pass on the virus."
It's really too bad the establishment media has abdicated on reporting things like this and left the field entirely wide open to right wing sources like the Epoch Times.
Sinclair Broadcast Group isn't "establishment media"?!
It's the second-largest television station operator in the United States, owning/operating about 200 stations, covering 40% of American households. Our former president
publicly supported them and he's a coastal elite who's very well connected.
You just called it a "tabloid," which I wouldn't generally associate with "establishment media," no. If this was a report on one of their local NBC affiliates, then maybe?
Also not really sure how the Politifact you cite is relevant to the content here. A more appropriate one might be something like "Hochul does not have authority to veto the ruling of the state court, which makes her assertions about not rehiring unvaccinated HCWs mostly hot air."
Edit: ah, I see, the crux of the issue is that New York in fact lost a mere 11,000 HCWs as a direct result of firings due to the vaccination mandate. The ones who took an early retirement or were furloughed (and presumably still are) bring the total to 30,000.
I did not call Sinclair Broadcast Group a "tabloid". This is just one of the nearly 200 publications they own. The second-largest television station operator in the United States isn't "establishment?"
Murdoch's NY Post is a tabloid too, ranked 4th in the US by distribution; are they "mainstream?"
> ah, I see, the crux of the issue
Oh wow, you didn't know any of these facts before posting. You're their target audience.
There's not even a fact being checked here? "Lost" is a perfectly fine way to describe most of these workers. It was some local NY pol who said they had all been fired.
Not really. There are people for whom Fentanyl is the only real choice for use _during_ surgery. I'm one of them, and I don't want doctors mucking about inside my chest without ample pain relief.
Fentanyl (and the derivative the vaccine works on) have very short half-lives, which is ideal for _minimal_ dosing during surgery. Any drug that lengthens the QT interval, or fucks with the S wave will bring about catastrophic heart failure in people with conduction channel issues. The only time alternative anesthetics are given to me for example is to induce heart failure in order to test new leads.
I find the idea of a vaccine that makes therapeutic drugs fail to work quite scary personally.
DVDs are easy to backup. Lots of software out there, and there's nothing low level to worry about. Audio CDs also have lots of software out there, but you have to be a bit more picky if you're concerned about getting a bit for bit copy rather than just a sounds the same copy. If your discs have hidden tracks and all that kind of weird stuff, care is needed.
Once you have things onto your filesystem, the usual rules of backups apply.
which would include keeping the original disc ripped to make this new copy that needs backing up. more than one copy. more than one format. more than one location.
