Ochsner Fires 280 Unvaxxed Workers

Per nola.com, Ochsner has fired 280 employees that refused to be vaccinated. Ochsner system workers in Shreveport/Monroe areas are exempted due to stay by Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal. Ochsner's vax mandate is self-imposed.

Ochsner's actions raise lots of questions, some of which are:

1. Are the members of the Ochsner board un-American fascists taking away a fellow-citizen's right to make their own health care decisions? My body, my choice.

2. Are the members of the Ochsner board stupid? Can they think for themselves or are they cowardly lemmings? Why are they so rigid and not showing flexibility in their decision making based upon the evidence as it develops. Clinging to initial decisions made before building evidence revealed the vax, except for those with serious co-morbidities, can be more dangerous than good is unscientific. The vaccine does not keep you from getting Covid, it doesn't keep you from transmitting Covid, and it doesn't keep you from getting a serious/hospitalizing case of Covid. And even Fauci admits it does nothing against Omicron.

3. Why would the Ochsner board do this now when the legality of such mandates is undecided? Kind of harsh when the Second Circuit has said the mandate may not be legal and the La. Supreme Court has yet to weigh in. Besides the U.S. Fifth Circuit enjoining the OSHA vax mandate, a federal district court judge in Florida recently enjoined a similar Florida health care system's private employee vax mandate for the reasons raised in questions 1 & 2 above.

4. Why would I want to receive healthcare from providers that are so rigid in their thinking and care so little for the health of the community they serve--they have to have reduced the effectiveness of their services by firing part of their workforce. Why else were they employed in the first place?

5. Is Ochsner doing this for dollars? If so, who is paying them for enforcing the party line? And where does the money go?

6. I haven't read the 2nd Circuit's decision, but is there some way to find Ochsner in contempt of Court for firing workers in other parts of the State, in the face of the injunction?

There are many more questions, but only so many hours in the day.