I'm such an idiot. I forgot to link out to today's Morning Sixpack. Anyway, enjoy!

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January 11, 2022 (The Morning Sixpack) Omicron is still wreaking havoc on the planet's human population, causing many to miss work or school. Those working in "essential jobs" are out of luck - they almost have no choice but to work. 

Health care workers are panicked as desperate hospitals ask infected staff to return

While most health workers are vaccinated, many are still falling sick, exacerbating a staff shortage as more Americans seek hospital care.

Hospitals and long-term care facilities are so short staffed that many are compelling Covid-positive doctors and nurses to return to work, arguing that bringing back asymptomatic or even symptomatic staff is the only way they can keep their doors open amid a spike in hospitalizations.

The practice, allowed by the most recent federal guidance, underscores the dire situation in which many facilities find themselves as more than 120,000 people nationwide are now hospitalized with the virus — almost three times the total from Thanksgiving when Omicron was first detected.

“We don't have good choices — or the choices that we want,” said Shereef Elnahal, the CEO of University Hospital in Newark, N.J. and the state’s former health commissioner. “Our staffing situation has been the worst it's been since the spring of 2020.” Three hundred out of 3,700 workers at his hospital are out, many infected with Covid-19.

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Desperate, indeed.

In other news, President Biden and Vice President Harris will be in Georgia today, compelling the Senate to change its filibuster rules to give voting rights legislation an up or down vote.

Something tells me the Senate either won't carve out an exception for voting rights OR they'll just give it a down vote.

I see Manchin or Sinema voting against voting rights bills.

And then what? Wouldn't it be something if the Senate were compelled to make a carve out for voting rights and then the legislation failed?

This is what we're up against nowadays.

Hope I'm wrong!

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Make it a great day!

Bill

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