I never thought that the United States descent into a police state would involve the extrajudicial killing of a Veteran's Administration nurse. It's particularly terrifying to this nurse that US immigration police have shot to death Alex Pretti, RN. A Veteran's Administration ICU nurse, Pretti is said to have been volunteering in sub-zero Minneapolis cold because he cared about his neighbors and co-workers as much as he did his critically ill patients.
"Someone came up to me speaking nonsensically, I didn't understand what he was saying," he said. "I tried to leave and as I turned my back he struck me in my lower back. "When you wake up and think 'what's my day going to be like?' you really don't want to think about 'maybe I'll be attacked today'." Mr Gregory added: "We're not out here to get you, we're trying to keep traffic flowing."
A letter signed by hundreds of current and former HHS employees, addressed to Kennedy and members of Congress, says Kennedy is "complicit in dismantling America's public health infrastructure and endangering the nation's health" by questioning the integrity of the CDC's workforce, making false claims that COVID vaccines are not safe or effective, changing vaccine policy based on ideology rather than science, and contributing to "harassment and violence experienced by the CDC staff."
The latest draft of Cal/OSHA's Workplace Violence Prevention regulation proposes significant changes, including allowing employees to confront suspected criminals, addressing stakeholder concerns.
