I count myself proud to be one of the guys that “disappeared”.
The system is irredeemably broken. Let’s hasten it’s demise
.One competency crisis at a time.

Maybe they've gone Galt.

In June 2021, I informed my boss that after 17 years with them, I would be retiring end of June 2022. (I thought about that later, and I actually gave him 26 consecutive occurrences of 2-week notices...). But as my company was a huge gubmint contractor, everyone had to be fully vaxxed by January 14, 2022. Left me with four choices, three of them being to resign (nope), get vaxxed (no freaking way that was gonna happen), or let them fire me (not a real option). So I chose option four, which was to bid them AMF six months earlier than I planned. I think that makes me part of the Big Quit, albeit a very small part.

Well, I think we all know what caused that. But even stranger than that....my husband was reluctant to interview in a certain company's job fair, because that company had rejected him out of hand about 8 years ago, indicating (though not saying out loud) that he was too old. They were hiring all new kids fresh out of school.

Enter last May, when I basically forced him to go to this job fair, because nothing else was on the horizon at the time. NO one was there interviewing, and so he got the attention of all the interviewers. Before NOON the next day, he had received and accepted a job at a level and pay rate that we are still having trouble believing! But it's definitely true. They paid for the move, all expenses associated with selling our house, all expenses associated with buying our new house, and here we are in Tucson, happy as a hot, desert clam (if there is such a thing).

He did ask at one point, why they were hiring old folk such as him, and HR said they had made a mistake hiring all those newbies straight out of school with zero experience.

So, that had nothing to do with the jabbity-jab except for 1) those who took it and were seriously injured or died, or 2) declined to take it and lost their jobs. And now they are in serious need of people who know what they are doing -and those people are becoming increasingly hard to find. Incidentally, my husband turned 72 in July and he's nowhere NEAR the oldest new-hire.

So sorry to hear about your daughter-in-law. A case of medical malpractice if I ever heard of one. So sad.

Our formerly christian local hospitals are in a similar predicament: they've gone from being charitable organizations (literally run by nuns) to for-profit businesses with CEO's making millions per year. And predictably, they've gone all in on lobbying (and have the governor in their back pocket) and they've actively persecuted via lawsuit or otherwise anyone who criticizes them - especially anyone who objects to their power. They went after Doctor Ryan Coles and basically cut off his diagnosis business. (Coles was one of those who was pointing out the surges in cancer and other maladies as a result of the COVID "vaccine" treatments.) They also assisted our governor in going after a political rival (Ammon Bundy) and have sued him into bankruptcy and hiding. Keep in mind that these were hospitals who converted entire wings over to COVID wings which sat un-unused for a year, fired nurses and doctors who wouldn't get the shot (again at the Governor's order), and cancelled thousands of necessary surgeries and treatments. They are medical tyrants.

Kinda frightening I’ll admit. I can only imagine the NTSB reports of the future:
“We have concluded that Southworst Airlines flight number 666 was brought down by a mixture of white supremacy and climate change. It had nothing to do with the diversity hire failing to fasten the gas cap. If there wasn’t white supremacy, that needed to be combatted, the airline would never had hired them in the first place so that makes it all white people’s fault.”

You know that’s coming soon to a cockpit near you.

We must ask ourselves if each trip is really necessary.

Heck, I'm scared to fly - for the first time in my life (we don't fly anyway because of a medical condition my husband has). But my son is starting again to fly for business, and I'm scared silly. The pilots are all babies and under-trained, and if they are older, they are subject to dying behind the wheel, with no forewarning!

On my visit, I was put in a private room. At 9:00 p.m. another patient was moved into my room and she had her entire family with her past midnight. She howled all night. I asked for a walker because of my screaming pain when I walked and they didn't have one. (this was all along with no meals for 3 servings), Trust me! My insurance is so good, I don't even pay a copay for anything. N.

You think? I had one from Africa, one from China and one from India? When I asked how did you find your way here? They all said 'Better Jon'. They may be in for a shock shortly once they learn about this 'almost' Communist country. N

Yes, have no fear, new nurses are here and some may even be trained and speak English. Of all those millions of God-knows-what denizens from Schiff holes that the Puppet-In-Chief's Obamamnable Marxist handlers let in, there's bound to be a few experienced midwives and wet nurses among them and these days some of those birthing persons may even come with a pair of balls.