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?

She made the choice not to have the vaccine, I'm more concerned about the amount of vaccinated who don't have to isolate because let's face it and stop kidding yourselves, you're the ones spreading covid like wildfire because you 'don't' have to isolate.

The data on the current wave doesn’t really bear this out. The huge numbers are in younger teenagers (helped along by the bungled vaccine rollout for teenagers) and the exact demographic that correlates with their parents (close household contacts have always been the highest risk for transmission.)

Other age groups haven’t risen anywhere close to as much - this looks like a wave of mainly the unvaccinated and their close contacts.

Canny skive that like. We don't get penalised for having to stay off for covid related issues but we don't get paid either.

Great. I'm not 100% reassured by "reasonably well understood" however.

What's the alternative though?

If everyone took your view where would we be? Perpetual lockdown? Healthcare totally overwhelmed and deaths sky rocketing? Which would you prefer?

No one can guarantee you that the vaccine is 100%, but that has to be assessed against the alternative, which is very high levels of severe covid that our hospitals can't cope with.

Pick any holes in the vaccine you like, but how do you propose living in a world where everyone makes the same choices as you?

And why should other people suffer restricted healthcare and/or restricted freedom because of your choices?

She’s on full pay?? Wow

Sorry should have read 100% safe

@OrangeVelour

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

Had work listened to what it says on gov.uk. I’d have spread it to God knows how many people. A double vaccinated friend spread it to 8 people and I double vaccinated spread it to another double vaccinated person.

YABU. One of my friends had a hideous reaction to first vaccine and didn't have second. It sounds as though your colleague has an underlying health condition. She may be on chemo or a cancer survivor. You have no idea. Concentrate on you. Maybe look for a different job if you dislike the policies. Sorry to sound harsh. I am very pro vaccine but also pro kindness.

@Grapewrath

Yabu She has made a decision about her own body, presumably an informed decision. Vaccines don’t come without risks and she feels the vaccine risk possess greater threat than covid in her case. Yanbu to be annoyed but she didn’t make up the isolation rules

Grapewrath, of course she is not being unreasonable. It's bloody people like you and the idiot she is working with whose attitudes about the vaccine or any vaccines make me very cross. If it was down to you, we would still have the likes of smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria etc in this country but thanks to vaccines, horrific diseases like this have been eradicated. My daughter, an A and E registrar has had to admit yet more UNVACCINATED idiots who have refused the vaccine and are now very ill in hospital with covid whilst putting others including my daughter at risk, albeit not as bad a risk since she is doubly plus booster vaccinated. What do you think would have happened in this country over the past 20 months if hospital medical staff like my darling daughter had laid down their scrubs and said " no, we are not working, we are isolating" !!!!

@Peevedcolleague
All I can say is yes agree unvaccinated routinely isolating is a pain. However, as working in healthcare, the ITU nurses call them the "willing volunteers" who, when they have to be put to sleep are universally regretful when they realise they may not wake up. These are young people as well and they are just so stupid and swallow the shit on social media.

10 days not 10 weeks.

You shouldn't be covering her work. Your management should be hiring extra resource to cover it.

Those of us who’ve seen the inside of a Covid ICU know refusing the vaccine is foolish…but you can’t mitigate all foolish and selfish decisions. That being said, they should not be being paid [unless WFH is reasonable/possible].

@GoodnightGrandma

Join the club, we had this with a colleague who refused the vaccine due to pregnancy.

I think that's perfectly reasonable to wait whilst pregnant. I was pregnant as the vaccines were just being rolled out and the advice was NOT to take the vaccine of pregnant as there were no trials on pregnant women so they couldn't know how it would affect the mother or baby

@Beachcomber

OK if you prefer they are liscened for emergency use but do not have full regulatory board approval. Pfizer and Moderna are also the first vaccines of their kind (mRNA) to be used in humans other than in tests.

That makes them experimental.

Rubbish. Pfizer received full approval in August.

www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine

I bet she wouldn’t be self isolating this much if she wasn’t on full pay. Pisstaker.

she chose not to have the vaccine gor reasons personal to her, you chose yo have the vaccine so yes I think YABU , my Dd is a paramedic she's. not vaccinated as she has 1 child and wants another soon, no proof yet how it could affect pregnancy so she's chosen not too after speaking to gp , she will probably lose her job in April but hey the government don't care she's risked her life for 2 years and will for the next 5 months , personal choice

@SusieBob

YANBU.

All the anti-vaxxers are perfectly happy to enjoy the country being relatively back to normal whilst accepting none of the responsibility of how we actually got there because they read on twitter the vaccine has gone fucking mercury in it or something equally stupid.

Yep and there's more mercury in a can of Tuna than the vaccine...

There may be a legitimate reason for not getting jabbed. You do not know.
Now you know what people who don't have children feel when parents are always taking time off to deal with their children or because they are pregnant. It's crap! Especially since they are the ones who "want yo save the planet"!

@Gilld69

she chose not to have the vaccine gor reasons personal to her, you chose yo have the vaccine so yes I think YABU , my Dd is a paramedic she's. not vaccinated as she has 1 child and wants another soon, no proof yet how it could affect pregnancy so she's chosen not too after speaking to gp , she will probably lose her job in April but hey the government don't care she's risked her life for 2 years and will for the next 5 months , personal choice

Not personal choice, selfish choice. She’s risking her patients’ lives actually. There’s plenty of evidence that shows no link between the vaccine and fertility.

@Gilld69

she chose not to have the vaccine gor reasons personal to her, you chose yo have the vaccine so yes I think YABU , my Dd is a paramedic she's. not vaccinated as she has 1 child and wants another soon, no proof yet how it could affect pregnancy so she's chosen not too after speaking to gp , she will probably lose her job in April but hey the government don't care she's risked her life for 2 years and will for the next 5 months , personal choice

A paramedic who is not vaccinated!!! Absolutely ridiculous. Do we have to yet again spell it out to the ignorant... the vaccine does NOT cause infertility. It is scaremongering like this comment which is particularly dangerous. I am afraid to say that unless you are vaccinated, no one should be allowed to continue to work for the NHS.

@SaturdaySummer maybe you should read up on this advice again. They now recommend pregnant women to have the vaccine to prevent them and their unborn babies from getting seriously ill or dying. There’s enough evidence to recommend this now.

Yep and there's more mercury in a can of Tuna than the vaccine...

I don’t eat tuna. 😜

Getting the vaccine doesn’t take away the fact you can still get COVID and pass it on to others. And that’s why I hate this vaccine passport it gives everyone vaccinated a free pass to go where they want non symptomatic but carrying Covid and passing it on to others who in turn pass it on again.

Let your coworker isolate so she doesn’t pass anything on to others just in case, while you get infected and passing it on to the rest of your coworkers who are vaccinated.

@GoodnightGrandma

Join the club, we had this with a colleague who refused the vaccine due to pregnancy.

Is that an unreasonable reason?

You not vaccinated coworker isolating is being way safer then you are

YANBU. I hope they don’t get paid whilst they isolate, they bloody shouldn’t be