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?

Her body, her choice.
I'm not vaccinated either, none of my household are and no intention to either.

The North Korea comment just shows you’re one sandwich short of a picnic

What does it even mean!?

@JesusIsAnyNameFree

The North Korea comment just shows you’re one sandwich short of a picnic

What does it even mean!?

It means they're not quite 'all there'

Or if you mean the North Korea comment she's saying they belong in a dictatorship

It means they're not quite 'all there'

Actually, I do have mental health issues so you are probably right. But thanks for turning it in to a joke. Real nice.

Your colleague has probably done her research and made her informed decision just like many of us have

You have fallen victim to conspiracy theories and bullshit. It is nothing to be proud of and I implore you to do research outside of TikTok, Facebook and where ever else you have found your "information".

@XenoBitch

It means they're not quite 'all there'

Actually, I do have mental health issues so you are probably right. But thanks for turning it in to a joke. Real nice.

I didn't make the joke, did I, I just explained if. But that explains your completely unnecessary attack on me yesterday.

@Sillawithans

Her body, her choice. I'm not vaccinated either, none of my household are and no intention to either.

Then expect your decision to have the potential to restrict your choices.

I think I'm past feeling rage with the wilfully unvaccinated. They're tiresome. If people don't have a medical reason to refuse a covid vaccine they can just put up with any restrictions their stance causes. I certainly don't feel any sympathy for them.

@girlmom21

Nono, the NK comment! I feel so confused and thick

@girlmom21 I think I misquoted you yesterday, and I do apologise.

[quote XenoBitch]@girlmom21 I think I misquoted you yesterday, and I do apologise.[/quote]
I think it was just an assumption based on the extreme views of some people here which I understand. We're good

[quote JesusIsAnyNameFree]@girlmom21

Nono, the NK comment! I feel so confused and thick [/quote]
It's just a lazy insult levelled at people who think social responsibility matters.

[quote JesusIsAnyNameFree]@girlmom21

Nono, the NK comment! I feel so confused and thick [/quote]
If someone is really keen on restrictions then it is said they should move to NK where it is everyday life, Covid or not. They will be happy there.

That is what is meant by it.

Seeing as it isn’t even a proper vaccine yes you are being unfair! When you can still catch it even vaccinated yet don’t have to isolate and can just spread it about until you show symptoms it’s ridiculous!

These are all ‘proper’ vaccines. No vaccine is ever 100% effective. Many have much lower effectives in adulthood than in childhood. There are vaccines with much lower effectiveness - most notably the flu vaccine. The majority of infections are prevented with the vaccines currently in use. The impact of boosters on VE will be interesting to watch - the picture from Israel is very encouraging.

You have a choice of whether to take any vaccine; you do not have a choice of inventing your own definition of ‘vaccine’ and expecting it to pass unchallenged.

@XenoBitch

It means they're not quite 'all there'

Actually, I do have mental health issues so you are probably right. But thanks for turning it in to a joke. Real nice.

Now to be fair, your mental health illness has nothing to do with you telling someone they belong in a dictatorship. That was more you being a bit of a dicktator.

Now to be fair, your mental health illness has nothing to do with you telling someone they belong in a dictatorship. That was more you being a bit of a dicktator

Did you even see who I was saying should move to NK? Someone off their head ranting, calling people spanners, and all for plunging people into poverty for not having the vaccine.

And I am the "dicktator"?

@XenoBitch

Now to be fair, your mental health illness has nothing to do with you telling someone they belong in a dictatorship. That was more you being a bit of a dicktator

Did you even see who I was saying should move to NK? Someone off their head ranting, calling people spanners, and all for plunging people into poverty for not having the vaccine.

And I am the "dicktator"?

Well, unless medically exempt, she wasn't wrong. People who have no valid excuse for not having it, should have it.

Well, unless medically exempt, she wasn't wrong. People who have no valid excuse for not having it, should have it

That sounds like dictating to me.

@XenoBitch

Well, unless medically exempt, she wasn't wrong. People who have no valid excuse for not having it, should have it

That sounds like dictating to me.

Hopefully people who think social responsibility is dictating will become increasingly in the minority.

As I said, I find the wilfully unvaccinated tiresome and I think that many others do too.

I think that workplaces are still facing lots of disruption regardless of if people are vaccinated,
I’m fully vaccinated and booster too, (also had covid a couple of months after my 2nd vaccine)
But recently I’ve been called out of work a few times due to my children having ‘symptoms’ ones that only come out at school seemingly and having to pick them up take them for a test then isolating ( I don’t have to isolate but obvs can’t leave them home alone ) until result comes, negative every time.
It’s really frustrating esp for the patients on our already backlogged waiting list that I have to cancel at the last minute.
The lasting effect of the pandemic is affecting all of our lives significantly, is good to get things off your chest but I feel that the argument re mandatory vaccines is something that has been pushed upon us by the government to turn against each other and to ostracise those exercising their rights to make their own decisions about their own health.
The strong views on here are really worrying, since when were we so invested in a complete strangers life choices?
The enforcement of the covid vaccine in NHS staff will cause a staffing crisis, oh wait we’ve already got a staffing crisis and this will make it much worse, If Myself of a relative needed medical attention I’d rather receive it from an unvaccinated doctor or nurse than none at all!
And anyway if the vaccine is so amazingly effective as some of the posters on here say it is, we’ve got nothing to worry about coming in to contact with unvaccinated people have we?

And anyway if the vaccine is so amazingly effective as some of the posters on here say it is, we’ve got nothing to worry about coming in to contact with unvaccinated people have we?

I couldn't care less about that.

What concerns me is the health service becoming overwhelmed by severe covid cases which are overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated.

The impact on everyone else is either their own healthcare (which they fund via their taxes) is compromised OR their freedoms come under treat in the form of increased restrictions.

That's not okay in my eyes.

*Hopefully people who think social responsibility is dictating will become increasingly in the minority.

As I said, I find the wilfully unvaccinated tiresome and I think that many others do too*

I had a text from BoJo like everyone else, telling me to stay at home. I don't recall getting one saying I must have the vaccine.

I am getting tiresome of all the vitriol and namecalling of people who are not anti-vaxx, but have not had the jab either. We are all being turned on each other.. and that is so sad to me.

@Gothicashoker

Seeing as it isn’t even a proper vaccine yes you are being unfair! When you can still catch it even vaccinated yet don’t have to isolate and can just spread it about until you show symptoms it’s ridiculous! I’m pregnant and have refused from the beginning as my body and my unborn baby will be no ones guinea pig Thankyou! Your colleague has probably done her research and made her informed decision just like many of us have

What research have you done that tells you "it isn't even a proper vaccine"?

Go on, fucking dying for this one.

" not anti-vaxx, but have not had the jab either"

Makes as much sense as calling myself anti-car and ordering myself a ferrari.

@chickywoo

Having the vaccine does not benefit anyone else, it doesn’t stop infection and it doesn’t stop transmission, it only serves to prevent you from getting seriously ill with covid, so if she has chose not to have it she has made an informed decision about her own health. The isolation rules are not her fault and I’m sure they will change soon anyway.

I can assure you that having the vaccine does benefit everyone else. The itu I work in is full of unvaccinated (>85% unvaxxed) covid patients (including some pregnant ladies 😒). As such we cannot get other v sick patients an itu bed they need, surgery including cancer is being cancelled and we (staff) are on our knees with it. The vaccine is for the greater good as well as being a v sensible personal decision if you are able to have it.