👮♂️ Hospital security guards do more than guard doors. From de-escalating violence to monitoring CCTVs & protecting patients, their role is vital. Whether armed or unarmed, they keep healthcare running safely.
P.S. Found a great breakdown of their duties recently—worth a look if you're in security or healthcare. 😉
#HospitalSecurity #HealthcareWorkers #SecurityGuards #ArmedSecurity #SecurityCompanies #PublicSafety #CCTV #Mastosec
#GazaProtest #Rotterdam #TheNetherlands #HealthcareWorkers #Shoes
"Rotterdam memorial honours fallen Gaza healthcare workers"
by trtworld
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tn0LmfIFi-Q
Quote by trtw
"40 min Ago [May 11, 2025]
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Rotterdam on Saturday, May 10, for a poignant memorial in which 1,400 pairs of white shoes were displayed in a public square to honour healthcare workers killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
The event, organised by the Doctors for Gaza Foundation, brought together doctors, nurses, medical students and human rights activists from across the Netherlands and beyond.
Participants commemorated the fallen healthcare workers by reading aloud their names, paying tribute to those who lost their lives in the ongoing Israeli assault."
#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#JusticeForHindRajab #JusticeForRifaatRadwan
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus
I found some data on the illness levels of workers in the Australian health sector.
Here are the trends claims for staff in the Health Care and Social Assistance industry in NSW, affected by Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.
It seems clear the dramatic change from late 2021 is almost all COVID-19. It closely follows the familiar patterns for the known waves in that period, and is a huge deviation, even vs mid-2021.
FCT Doctors Launch Three-Day Strike, Issue Ultimatum to Minister Wike https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/05/fct-doctors-launch-three-day-strike.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #FCTDoctorsStrike #NyesomWike #HealthCareWorkers #MedicalStrike #SalaryArrears
Okay @ CA state government, what the FUCK are you on?
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB408/2025
This bill rewrite is... several layers of fucked up and unfair to both healthcare workers struggling with substance abuse, and healthcare workers who are mentally ill or disabled.
A choice quote: "This bill would revise and recast those provisions and would instead authorize the board to establish a Physician Health and Wellness Program to support, treat, monitor, and rehabilitate physicians and surgeons and other professionals licensed by the board with impairing physical and mental health conditions that may impact their ability to practice their profession in a reasonably safe, competent, and professional manner."
You can't treat mental and physical health the same as substance abuse. They are different vectors and you approach them differently! (Also, side note, many people who want to talk on substance abuse *really* want to ignore the part where people often start using *because of inadequate healthcare and/or medication and/or pain management access*. We really have to address all sides if you want to address substance abuse.) Why are you writing this into a bill about specifically substance abuse, for one?
For two, mental health can be chronic. I would hope a healthcare worker with chronic mental health conditions would have access to meds/therapy/whatever to help stay stable—but in reality, it's *already* stupendously hard to get licensed if you have a mental health dx, and that's country wide if not world-wide.
Like people in residency asking if it'll fuck them over to seek treatment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Residency/comments/1ime0ph/is_it_true_that_seeking_mental_health_treatment/
Doctors during early pandemic *forgoing mental health care because they might lose their licenses*: https://www.aamc.org/news/doctors-forgo-mental-health-care-during-pandemic-over-concerns-about-licensing-stigma
This AMA article from July 2023 celebrating medical boards (including CALIFORNIA) being less invasive so healthcare workers can get mental health care mayhap: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/23-medical-boards-make-changes-support-physician-well-being
And now for the piece de resistance: a research paper on the high levels of mental health issues healthcare workers experience! https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11024831/
(Side note: Kentucky already has something like the above bill is proposing. South Carolina law is fucking prohibitive on this subject: you basically cannot be mentally ill or physically disabled or it's automatically physician misconduct, is how that reads to me. So uh. No.)
Shoutout to @camilla for the citation hunting. 💕💕
#CA #California #politics #statelevelpolitics #statepolicies #statepolitics #CApolitics #healthcare #healthcareworkers #mentalhealth
I quit Ozempic and embraced feeling healthy over striving for thinness (Makan: Horrible article by NPR.)
Please vote for my sister-in-law, Janeris Colon, to be recognized for Healthcare Workers Appreciation Night on the field at Yankees Stadium!: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0A5wuzIKKQcy4qPuciFabaDg4a1rwhzmdSy-F72vvYYNZaA/viewform?usp=sharing
B.C. extends #PRRI for #healthcareworkers until June 2025 https://energeticcity.ca/2025/04/11/province-extends-rural-recruitment-retention-incentives-for-healthcare-workers/ “financial incentive program offering nurses up to $8,000 a year to work in rural communities like #FortStJohn and #DawsonCreek is being extended until the summer.
The B.C. Ministry of Health is extending its Provincial Rural Retention Incentive (PRRI) until June 30th while staff assess the program’s effectiveness and determine the scope of the initiative for the coming year.”
Does anyone ever feel... bad... but don't know why? (I mean physically)
ICYMI: Oyo State Intensifies Measures to Prevent Diphtheria Outbreak https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/oyo-state-intensifies-measures-to.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Diphtheria #OyoState #PublicHealth #Vaccination #HealthcareWorkers
#HealthcareWorkers in #PortlandME are also taking to the streets today (yesterday it was #Teachers, #Students and parents).
#MaineResists #Resistance #ResistDOGE
Hackman's Hantavirus, H5N1, and Mystery Virus in Congo (Makan: What does everyone think of this channel?)
So, a good friend is facing evictions, car repairs, and needing to see their kids, while in the deep south.
Posting here, to get more eyes on this. They are a fantastic nurse, and have been on the front lines of the #BLM protests and other actions.
Let's get them some help, and some breathing room, please!
So I'm using CBD to treat my trauma in the meantime before I get a pill after, presumably, the month of April.
Trump Administration Plans to Eliminate More Than 80,000 Veterans Affairs Employees
The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning
This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.
By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM
"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'
"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'
"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.
"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.
"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.
"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.
"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.
"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.
"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.
"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)
"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.
"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.
"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"
Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent
