Why Wyoming is Losing Healthcare Workers

Rep Jeanette Ward
Sept 6, 2024

As a member of the Labor/Health/Social Services committee in the Wyoming legislature, I experienced first-hand the complaints by the Medical Cartel that they can’t get young people to go into the healthcare field, and that there aren’t enough health care workers. My first question to those complaining of this to our committee, is “Do you require the so-called COVID vaccine?” and then, “Do you require masking or testing?”

Today, my daughter called me in tears to report that the Nursing Program in which she is enrolled at Central Wyoming College in Riverton is going to require her to take a COVID test, even though she is not sick, in order to complete the clinical portion of her study at Westward Heights Care Center in Lander, because they are having an “outbreak” (I later learned this is FOUR people). An “outbreak” of what, I wonder, since the COVID PCR test was never meant to be used as a diagnostic tool, ACCORDING TO ITS INVENTOR. 

All that so-called COVID tests measure is that a person has a coronavirus, of which there are literally millions. I called Jim Kniola, Nursing Instructor at Central Wyoming College, and he told me that they follow and comply with “the evidence”. He was very condescending and further told me that Westward Heights Care Center requires it. Neither my daughter, nor I, want any swab with who-knows-what on it placed near her blood-brain barrier. This shouldn’t require an exemption of any kind. What happened to those who misuse the cry “my body, my choice!" when, in this case, it actually applies.

Today my daughter decided to leave the nursing program and instead study Health Science, in the hopes that the WY legislature will do its job and protect medical freedom in the next two years, after which time she can pursue a nursing degree at a 4-year college.

In 2023, I was the prime sponsor of HB0066 - Prohibiting mask, vaccine and testing discrimination. Had the bill passed, my daughter and others like her would not be forced to postpone their dream of becoming nurses.

I have serious doubts that my primary opponent is likely to propose or vote to protect medical freedom, having received $1000 from the Wyoming Hospital Association, who is responsible for keeping these kinds of requirements in place and locking Wyoming down during the scamdemic.