As residents of nursing homes were cut off from their families, Kayla Montoro worked throughout the pandemic to keep at bay what had become its own pandemic of loneliness by coordinating events and volunteers to engage isolated seniors. Despite that, amid a crisis of staffing shortages in the health care industry that has resulted in a debilitating reduction in care for the elderly, Montoro was terminated from her hospice company in New Jersey in February for not being vaccinated, despite her supervisor previously giving her a positive annual review. But it’s not like she didn’t see the writing on the wall. “The first time I felt uncomfortable was in January 2021 when the director of compliance asked people individually on a Zoom meeting what their vaccination status was,” Montoro told The Epoch Times. “She said that every vaccination was experimental when it first came out, and she urged everyone to …