Covid - Maine in the Crosshairs

Update September 3, 2021

Maine's governor has extended the deadline for the mandate discussed below to October 28. However from this Portland Press Herald article it is unclear what effect this change will have on unvaccinated healthcare workers.

Maine allows more time for required vaccinations as new COVID-19 cases nearly double

The comments at the end of this article for some reason do not seem to reflect any of the thinking of healthcare workers opposed to forced Covid vaccinations. They seem to imply a near-unanimous consensus that:

1. The vaccines protect against getting Covid-19.

2. The vaccinated are threatened by the unvaccinated.

Make those two divergent claims mesh.

August 23, 2021

This News Center Maine story dated Thursday August 12, 2021 announced that Maine is mandating Covid vaccination for all healthcare workers effective October 1. The story reports that the announcement comes just "days after Maine's largest hospital reported an outbreak".

This Portland Press Herald article also dated August 12, the day of the governor's announcement, has more information. The governor's philosophy explained in this article is basically to put the squeeze on all healthcare workers in Maine to prevent them from leaving their jobs where vaccines are mandated and finding healthcare employment in state licensed facilities that don't require Covid vaccinations.

The State of Maine maintains a DHHS public Web page with tables and charts, some cumulative, some updated daily, showing Covid data. I find scant evidence there to support this panic move by the governor. Two of the interactive charts under "Hospital Capacity" titled "COVID-19 Patients in Critical Care" and "COVID-19 Patients on Ventilator" mysteriously underwent radical adjustment of the data this weekend or this morning reducing huge spikes that began August 17 - reducing daily numbers even exceeding 300 back down to two digit numbers not exceeding 50.

Considering the now well-established fact that fully vaccinated individuals, including fully vaccinated healthcare professionals in hospitals and other licensed healthcare facilities around the state, can catch and no doubt many have caught the virus since their vaccinations just as our own Senator Angus King has done and considering that it is now well established that fully vaccinated people can spread and no doubt many are spreading the virus even in hospital and other healthcare settings and considering that being fully vaccinated may be and probably is enabling professionals to spread the virus unwittingly because they have fewer symptoms, likely delaying their realization that they have the disease or are contagious, and considering that it seems likely that this mandate will have no effect other than to potentially increase this problem or reduce professional healthcare staff in Maine, the governor's mandate is unwarranted.

Many of the facts I present here were not publicly known at the time of Governor Mills' declaration, but they are established fact now making it irrational to continue with implementation of her mandate. The safety of the vaccines has never been scientifically verified. The fact that vaccinated people are suffering side effects that are seriously downplayed or even completely ignored by vaccine advocates, combined with the fact that officials are apparently ignoring that vaccinations have no known means of reducing the spread of the virus but yet are encouraging the public to believe that they do make the governor's mandate not only irrational but also ignorant.

Sorry, Gov.

But don't take my word for it. Stop ignoring facts. Do your research. Mandating vaccinations while ignoring known effective treatments encourages suspicion. Be suspicious. Pay attention. Question authority. Follow the money.