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DH & asthma & flu jab & work...

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CheriLittlebottom · 22/03/2020 16:07

Clear heads needed please!

DH has asthma. It's mild, and really only plays up during hayfever season. He has a brown and a blue inhaler, very rarely takes the brown one (I have nagged him into doing this now) and will only use the blue if he's going for a run or if the pollen count is high or he's mowing the lawn or something. Been together 12 years, I've never known him to have a 'proper' (?) asthma attack, just be a bit wheezy in the summer. I'm not trying to be flippant or dismissive, I don't really know how else to describe it.

He, and I, would both say he has very mild, under control asthma. But he does get offered a flu vaccine every winter, though he usually doesn't take it, as he can get one through work so avoids taking a freebie from the NHS.

His work are currently dragging their feet on WFH. They want everyone in. He could, in theory, WFH but he'd need to bring his desktop PC and monitors home and work would need to sort out the techie side of that to enable remote access etc. At the moment a few people from his office who can do their work on laptops have repeatedly asked to work from home (they wouldn't need anything sorted, just permission) and the company have said no.

Does he class as 'vulnerable' because of the flu jab? Should he be pushing work to stay home? He is not really the sort to speak out and I don't know if I should be encouraging him to be putting his foot down with this. He thinks they will be forced to shutdown and send everyone home in a week or so and he can just ride it out until then.

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Imonlydoingwhatican · 22/03/2020 16:12

Similar situation, however dh job isnt a wfh job, so he has to continue working luckly its minimum contact and he can wear gloves all day.
We will be in lockdown for non essential workers before to long, shops are already closing off thier own backs. Your dh work will have to face rhe reality of no working or working from home soon.

MissDemelzaCarne · 22/03/2020 16:12

He needs to send his work this link www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-on-social-distancing-and-for-vulnerable-people/guidance-on-social-distancing-for-everyone-in-the-uk-and-protecting-older-people-and-vulnerable-adults which states that:

We are advising those who are at increased risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) to be particularly stringent in following social distancing measures.
This group includes those who are:

aged 70 or older (regardless of medical conditions)
under 70 with an underlying health condition listed below (ie anyone instructed to get a flu jab as an adult each year on medical grounds):
chronic (long-term) respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema or bronchitis
chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
chronic kidney disease
chronic liver disease, such as hepatitis
chronic neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), a learning disability or cerebral palsy
diabetes
problems with your spleen – for example, sickle cell disease or if you have had your spleen removed
a weakened immune system as the result of conditions such as HIV and AIDS, or medicines such as steroid tablets or chemotherapy
being seriously overweight (a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or above)
those who are pregnant

CheriLittlebottom · 22/03/2020 16:13

That's what DH is saying, that they won't accept it until they're forced to. Absolute dicks, they are being stubborn for no reason and it's pissing me right off. Angry

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CheriLittlebottom · 22/03/2020 16:16

Demelza the problem is he doesn't think they'll listen. He has already told hr that he has asthma, they don't care. Well, they haven't done anything so I assume they don't care. They are still having team meetings about KPIs and targets and pulling twenty people into a room all squashed together rather than just sticking the info in an email.

I'm kind of hoping he gets an nhs letter tomorrow telling him he has to isolate, then maybe they'll accept it?

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