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Mandatory vaccine

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Walkingalone21 · 31/08/2021 09:30

What are peoples thoughts on the mandatory vaccine for all care home workers? If they choose not to have the vaccine they will loose their jobs on the 11th November 2021.
By now all of the residents will have been double jabbed and the majority of the care staff also. I think this is madness in an already under staffed industry especially as there is still no evidence that the vaccine stops or reduces the transmission. In a bid to protect the residents they will be putting them at risk by the severe shortage of staff.
I have so many questions around this.
Natural antibodies have the same if not better protection for the individual. Should that be taken into account too?
It seems that staff are being bullied and threatened into getting vaccinated by being told they will loose their jobs. Where is their choice in a sector that’s core values are care, empowerment and human rights?
Last years hero’s, this years unemployed it’s seems.

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Mary1Mary · 03/09/2021 12:06

Many carers are moving to the NHS.

Where they will look after elderly people who are either from old people's homes or are going into old people's homes.

cptartapp · 03/09/2021 19:48

henlee people will have their own reasons for not having the vaccine, some justified, some not. It is completely unreasonable to expect anyone to put anyone else's welfare above their own.
As a fit and healthy 18 year old nurse I was expected to have a flu vaccine, every year going forward, not primarily for my benefit. If I live until I'm 78 that would expose me to over sixty different flu vaccines and their components in my lifetime.
That doesn't sit comfortably when I personally experience hundreds of frail, elderly and at risk patients refuse year on year to have it themselves.

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