Fed up with unvaccinated colleague isolating

[Peevedcolleague]

Name changed 'cos I'll probably get slated but aibu to be pissed off about a colleague self isolating yet again while the rest of us have to carry on and pick up the pieces?

A new colleague chose not to be jabbed and is now facing numerous isolation periods at home on full pay where the rest of us have to carry on and cover her workload. Nature of the job means she's likely to be a close contact fairly regularly.

Even if she changed her mind and gets jabbed tomorrow, it'll be 10 weeks minimum before she's exempt from isolation so this could happen several more times yet.

Aibu to feel resentful and wish she bloody well got jabbed like the rest of us?

Bumfaceffs accurate name...talking shite or any evidence of what you said? My rock keeps tigers away wink wink

@OrangeVelour

YABU. I'd be more worried about vaccinated people NOT isolating and spreading the virus at work.

Huh? What? So everyone has to isolate for eternity everytime they get it, by that logic. Bonkers. Totally and utterly bonkers thinking.

No one should be paid for isolating. No one who is asymptomatic should need to take time off. It’s just another virus, like many others. It’s here to stay. This madness has to stop.

@SD1978

Thanks to mandatory vaccinations in Aus we don't have this issue which I'm very grateful fir. If you're in a teaching, healthcare, food services, construction, police etc type job, it's mandatory over here, and you'll not be employed if you don't get it. I'd be miffed continually picking up the slack for someone if there wasn't an at home tile they could be doing and understand why you are. They should need to wear full PPE at work, N95, face shield and gown to protect themselves and to ensure they minimise their risk whilst still working then.

Other than there being a whole lot of angry people, sure, it's great. Wonderful for social unity.

@sst1234

No one should be paid for isolating. No one who is asymptomatic should need to take time off. It’s just another virus, like many others. It’s here to stay. This madness has to stop.

Just test everyone. Stop with the assumption that vaccinated = safe, and unvaccinated = unsafe. Test everyone regardless of jab status.

She doesn't need to isolate if she is doesn't have covid so why is she?

@bluetongue

Those people will always exist, along with the "I have the flu"-people who actually just have a cold, or the "I can't possibly work, I have a migraine, but I can go to Costa with my friend", so in other words, a headache. They are an annoying bunch of twits that make it harder for the rest of us.
They do tend to get found out at my job though and tend to be the first to go when there's a good enough excuse to get rid! So at least that's something!

@kazillionaire

She doesn't need to isolate if she is doesn't have covid so why is she?

Yes, she does. She is unvaccinated.

@sst1234

No one should be paid for isolating. No one who is asymptomatic should need to take time off. It’s just another virus, like many others. It’s here to stay. This madness has to stop.

And it will. But that time is not now.

Oh dear.

She's been ordered to because she chose not to be vaccinated.

@ilovesooty

She's been ordered to because she chose not to be vaccinated.

Why are vaccinated people not meant to self isolate now? It seems dangerous to to me. Test everyone, regardless of vaccine status.

I certainly wouldn't argue against testing regardless of vaccination status but there are a lot of people hostile to testing too.

Why are vaccinated people not meant to self isolate now? It seems dangerous to to me

Because the government decide this was the rule. There is evidence that vaccinated people are less likely to catch covid and therefore less likely to spread, they're also less likely to transmit covid when they do have it too.

www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2106757

If you don't like the rule the write to your MP and ask them to raise it in Parliament and support any notions to have it overturned although they're probably unlikely to listen.