COVID deniers get violent; health workers get panic buttons
BETH MOLE - 9/29/2021, 7:09 PM
... In a hospital in Branson, Missouri, as many as 400 staff members will have panic buttons added to their identification badges after assaults on staff members tripled amid the pandemic. Assaults rose from 40 in 2019 to 123 in 2020, the Associated Press reported. The numbers for 2021 have not been released. When pressed, the panic buttons will immediately alert hospital security and trigger a tracking system to locate the endangered worker ...
Kootenai Health, in northern Idaho, increased security after people got into disputes with staff over masking requirements and staged protests outside the hospital. "I mean, we had a protest outside the hospital against masks and vaccines a couple of weeks ago that the patients that were dying of COVID inside could see," Kootenai Health chief of staff Dr. Robert Scoggins said. "I think that was awful" ...
In Texas, health workers have also faced a spike in hostility and violence. In a press conference last month, the chief nursing executive for Methodist Healthcare System, Jane McCurley, said staff "have been cursed at, screamed at, threatened with bodily harm and even had knives pulled on them" ... "It is escalating ... It's just a handful at each facility who have been extremely abusive. But there is definitely an increasing number of occurrences every day."
In Colorado, health officials in Jefferson County took mobile vaccination clinics off the road over Labor Day weekend after medical staff faced jeers, harassment, and assaults. At one clinic, a driver ran over clinic signs surrounding a vaccine tent. At another location, someone threw an unidentified liquid at a public health nurse administering vaccines ...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/health-workers-get-panic-buttons-as-covid-deniers-get-violent/
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It's a thing. Keep swallowing right-wing hate radio and its steady blast of the lies and propaganda coming out of the G.O.P. and Russia, and your brain putrifies. It happens.
When you have your head buried in far right propaganda 24 hours a day, that will do that to a person! Bill Maher was right - phones are turning people into assholes. 
