‘General Hospital’ Cast in Conflict Over Possible COVID Vaccine Mandate
The stars of General Hospital are falling on either side of the COVID vaccine mandate debate — and it’s spilling onto social media.
“I work on a set with unmasked, unvaccinated actors, because my union thus far @sagaftra has allowed this. Full stop,” Nancy Lee Grahn (who plays Alexis Davis) tweeted on August 12. “The reason there needs to be a vaccine mandate is because there are ppl who refuse to get vaccinated because they believe they somehow know more than the leading experts, the best scientists in the world, who are united in their findings that this vaccine is safe and necessary to lower our chances of dying or getting serious ill and of causing this for people who can’t be vaccinated,” she added in an Instagram post on August 23.
Grahn’s first post came a day before Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) announced he and Bradford Anderson (Damian Spinelli) would have to postpone their Stone Cold and the Jackal August tour because Burton tested positive for COVID. “Long story short, I was exposed at work,” he revealed in a video shared to Instagram. He had no symptoms. Then on August 17, he shared on his own Instagram, “All is well.”
On the other side of the argument is Ingo Rademacher (Jasper “Jax” Jacks), who posted about a No Vaccine Passport Rally on August 21 in his Instagram stories. After that, #FireIngo reportedly trended and he addressed that campaign in a video on Instagram on August 25. “Getting vaccinated does not stop you from spreading the virus,” he wrote in the caption. “That’s straight from the CDC. Mandating any vaccine is wrong but especially one that doesn’t help stop the spread, that’s nothing short of crazy talk. If you want to take the vaccine, take it. Just know you’re doing it for yourself, not to save anyone else. You’re not a hero.” He says more in the video. Watch it below.
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Instagram has added a link to the CDC’s information about COVID-19 and the vaccine to his post. According to the CDC, those who have not been vaccinated are more likely to get infected and transmit the virus, while fully vaccinated people contract COVID-19 less often than the unvaccinated.
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I appreciate you calling attention to the serious safety issue at General Hospital but this issue didn't start with Nancy Lee Grahn reaching out to the unions to make vaccines mandatory. It started over a year ago with Ingo Rademacher posting on his Instagram that COVID is the "Chinese flu" and stating that racism along with the virus weren't real. When fans disagreed, he called them names. There is a video of Rademacher mocking his Jewish co-star. These harmful and unprofessional behaviors went unchecked. Instead Rademacher was given promotion and treated like a romantic lead. Now his coworkers are getting sick and scared and he continues to mock their suffering. This isn't something new. It's been ongoing and is the fault of the truly horrible people who are in charge.
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If your vaccinated you can still spread and get covd.
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It’s like drinking and driveing your right t-odrink but not to kill people by driving
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Perfect example.
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What an amazingly awful thing to post. People can have different opinions but to wish terrible stuff on others…You should be ashamed of yourself to stoop this low.
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I don't understand the people who can see the train coming down the tracks but still refuse to move. The CDC says if you're infected with Covid once, your chances of re-infection are higher than anyone else's chance at being infected.
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Can you point to this information on the CDC website... sadly you are uninformed about re-infection. If you have had COVID already, you are less likely to get reinfected because you have antibodies... Since you do not understand medicine, please stop trying to be a medical expert... We need to get this false information off these sites that you are helping to spread in what seems to be unfounded paranoia
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If your vaccinated you can still spread and get covd.
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If the moron doesn't want to get vaccinated, then he shouldn't be allowed to be that close to other people, especially without a mask. He's risking everyone else's health. What about the kids who work on that show?
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This Vax situation is about control not health. The CDC is not even researching the natural antibodies after having covid. They are not following ANY science. I stand with Jax/Ingo. The media is not covering the downside of the vaccine. Why get the jab if it is not effective against covid and can in some cases be more harmful than helpful. Disney/ABC and even the government have no right to force this jab. The science shows the numbers are not what is claimed. Many of the covid case numbers have been inflated. Even the doctor who discovered the omicron variant said people had not been hospitalized or died. He was only letting the world know about it.
Get more news than what the media spoon feeds the public.
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Are you a Doctor?
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So Billy Miller took it and guess what? Dead at 43.
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That's right, it is all the Biden's fault.
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You really believe the CDC after they misquote their own website?
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Apples and oranges republican
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I think u have a choice. U should not b made to do wat ever the gov or media wants u to do. Just bcuz u don't won't to follow the other sheep u shouldn't b disrespected of ur opinions, shunned, or fired. Get a grip on ur own life, stop trying to control people.
I agree with Ingo / Jax.
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Nancy Lee Grahn is over the top pro abortion. Abortions kill humans by the thousands.
But somehow she is against my body my choice when it comes to this.
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One is a choice that doesn't affect multiple people and doesn't spread. The other is something that spreads a deadly virus, which if it doesn't kill you will increase your chances of reinfection, damage your lungs, heart, brain, liver, and kidneys, possible amputations, and gives you a pre-existing condition that can seriously affect your health overall the rest of your life. Your choice also prolongs the pandemic and creates new variants. Also, those who have been ventilated and been lucky enough to survive now have PTSD. There's a long list of future health issues that awaits a person dim enough to think that their choice in not having the vaccine and mask up is no big deal. You're kidding yourself. You've got a semi on your tail and think that you don't need to move out of its way.
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No, it does not increase your chances of re-infection, please look at actual data before you post. I really think you do not understand medical science so you shouldn't mouth off
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I hope you and your whole family get covid and suffer.
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She's pro-choice, not pro-abortion. Get your facts straight. If someone doesn't get vaccinated and is working that close to others without a mask, they are putting other people's lives at risk. If he doesn't want to get vaccinated that's fine, but he shouldn't be allowed near other people.
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I agree with Ingo. This vaccine has many side effects many that can really destroy a persons life. This vaccine isn’t a cure for the virus it’s not even preventing you from getting the virus. They say if you get the vaccine you won’t get the virus as bad and end up in the hospital. That’s not true people are ending up in the hospital and some are dying still. I know people that have died a few days after just getting the vaccine. I have a cousin that got rheumatoid arthritis and a mass on her breast a couple of months after she got the vaccine and she’s never been sick! I also know of teenagers that have developed heart problems after getting the vaccine so my 15 year old definitely will not be getting it she will continue to wear a mask as will the rest of this. If this vaccine was a cure there would be no need for a booster shot every 8 months. This vaccine is nothing but trouble.
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Stupid. We have a polio, flu, shingles, etc vaccine. Hospitals, doctors and nurses are overworked and not all due to Covid. These professionals are quitting their jobs and finding new professions. When you come down with Covid and need hospitalization see if there is room for you and coverage to take care of you!
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You’re the one who is stupid if you’re going to trust this vaccine that isn’t even a cure. Those other vaccines are actual cures for those viruses. Common sense if the doctors and nurses are quitting those jobs after being there for years because they don’t want to take the vaccine than isn’t that a huge red flag right there?!? Don’t wish harm onto others like karma says it will come back to you.
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ingo should stop doing those sex scenes and stop giving you stupid women covid
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Are we in reality at all, the fact is if you have been infected with COVID, you have antibodies which is the purpose of a vaccine.. If you don't understand antibodies and how a vaccine works, you probably shouldnt post on here
Now also be aware the "vaccine" is not a vaccine because it does not provide immunity, you can still get the virus and spread it... Vaccines by definition prevent infection...
Additionally, data coming out of Israel and the UK show that there are in fact more vaccinated people hospitalized than the unvaccinated... Simple research will show this to you..
Also genomic sequencing has proven that Delta is completely different than previous COVID virus, which would mean it is a different virus, maybe another CORONAVIRUS, which would explain why the vaccine is not preventing spread and infection.
So please stop parroting the media... Look at the data coming out of LA county... 25% of positive tests are from the vaccinated... Oh and that is between May and July, which is about 3-4 months after vaccination opened to the general public...
At this point, all information is inclusive... And we are silencing anyone that does not push the narrative that the media is pushing... Top virologists are also saying the opposite of what Nancy Lee Grahn is parroting
As far as Nancy Lee Grahn, she is a soap actress, so if she feels unsafe, she is not contributing greatly to society by playing Alexis Davis, so she can stay home.
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