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colleagues not vaccinated

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TheBullfinch · 03/07/2021 21:34

It's expected that from 1st August, our office staff will be asked to return to work in the office.

In a small office of 8, 4 have not had the vaccine (ethical, religious and anxiety related reasons given).

Would you br happy to return to work in this situation?

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mondaywine · 03/07/2021 21:37

Have been working with unvaccinated people throughout. Regardless of what we think individually, we have no right to make someone else take the vaccine. .

shouldistop · 03/07/2021 21:39

Yes, wouldn't bother me but I work with the public, I'm just glad if our service users have showered in the last week let alone had a vaccination.

XenoBitch · 03/07/2021 21:39

Have you had your vaccine? If so, what are you worried about?

CimCardashian · 03/07/2021 21:40

It would bother me,yes.

NothingIsWrong · 03/07/2021 21:41

No. I'm vaccinated, which protects me. I wouldn't be worried. I don't go asking colleagues if they have had the flu jab or any other jab.

Lostinacloud · 03/07/2021 21:41

Yes because the vaccine protects the vaccinated person primarily. Even if they caught covid, they are highly likely to fully recover and then they will be naturally immune. Meanwhile, you are also perfectly well.
Time to shrug off the government propaganda designed to persuade as many people as possible to take the vaccine and be sensible about things.

Babymamamama · 03/07/2021 21:41

I’m not sure whether it impacts you though. Surely as you can still catch and pass on the virus even after double jab, then the only issue is higher risk of hospitalisation and serious complications if unvaccinated. And that’s at their own risk (for unvaccinated colleagues) as far as I can see. Or have I missed something?

Nicknacky · 03/07/2021 21:41

It wouldn’t bother me at all. I have no idea which ones of my colleagues are vaccinated and I’ve been working throughout.

ragged · 03/07/2021 21:42

Somebody wrote this very well elsewhere... something like

If the vaccine protects you, why do you worry that I haven't had the vaccine?
If the vaccine can't protect me, why do you insist I should have it?

Tiddleztheelephant · 03/07/2021 21:45

It sounds fine to me. I have been in work full time since the first of June last year. The people I work with are all unvaccinated, they lick the furniture, blow snot and occasionally wee on me.
This sudden spate of "back to the office" threads just makes me smile.
You'll be fine op. Grin

SeaGreenUser · 03/07/2021 21:46

It's irrelevant, and I would neither care nor ask. What other people choose to do is their business not mine. And if I want a job then I go to work when I am told. I do not enquire whether my colleagues have any contagious conditions and/ or vaccinations normally, and I wouldn't be about to start now. Coronavirus is not the only very occasionally lethal disease out there, and it isn't even the scariest one.

userxx · 03/07/2021 21:47

Firing squad.

TheSunShinesBrighter · 03/07/2021 21:47

People don’t understand how vaccines work. I’ve heard others talking about ‘the unvaccinated’ as if they are a danger to others.

As others have said, The vaccine protects the person who is vaccinated.

People who are vaccinated are less likely to become seriously ill but can still contract and pass on the virus.

Unvaccinated people are more likely to become seriously ill and can also contract and pass on the virus.

Unvaccinated people are only putting themselves at risk.

bumbleymummy · 03/07/2021 21:50

No.

I really don’t understand this. Aside from the previously stated, ‘if you’re vaccinated, what are you worried about?’, most people are around their unvaccinated children all day. Children who go to school with lots of other unvaccinated children.

BitterTits · 03/07/2021 21:52

I would have absolutely no choice in the matter.

TremoloGreen · 03/07/2021 21:53

Unvaccinated people are only putting themselves at risk.

And also people like my Dad who has lymphoma. He has been vaccinated but it's unknown how well the vaccine will work for him because he has trouble mounting any immune response. Covid might kill him.

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/07/2021 21:53

Wouldn’t worry me. They’re the ones more likely to get ill and end up in hospital.

PurpleDaisies · 03/07/2021 21:53

It’s their choice. I’ve never known which vaccines any of my colleagues have had.

Schrutesbeets · 03/07/2021 21:54

Ffs

TheSunShinesBrighter · 03/07/2021 21:55

@TremoloGreen

Unvaccinated people are only putting themselves at risk.

And also people like my Dad who has lymphoma. He has been vaccinated but it's unknown how well the vaccine will work for him because he has trouble mounting any immune response. Covid might kill him.

Both vaccinated and unvaccinated people can contract the virus and pass it on.

The only person the vaccine protects is the person who has been vaccinated.

TheSunShinesBrighter · 03/07/2021 21:56

Vaccinated does not = immune.

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TheBullfinch · 03/07/2021 21:56

I'm not the one that's worried, a 50 year old colleague is. He says he wont go back if the other 4 do as he's CEV.

Nothing to do with me really but I just wanted to see how people felt generally.

@shouldistop I see your point! Grin

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Miseryl · 03/07/2021 21:57

Been in work onsite since March '20. IDGAF if people are vaccinated or not, just want the country back to normal.

Wellbythebloodyhell · 03/07/2021 22:00

People have been working together unvaccinated since day 1 its not a new concept

TheSunShinesBrighter · 03/07/2021 22:00

@Babymamamama

I’m not sure whether it impacts you though. Surely as you can still catch and pass on the virus even after double jab, then the only issue is higher risk of hospitalisation and serious complications if unvaccinated. And that’s at their own risk (for unvaccinated colleagues) as far as I can see. Or have I missed something?
No, you are correct.