That may be so but shouldn't patients have a choice in who looks after them too? Some may not be quite so accepting of this attitude.
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I find it a strange debate anyway. It's nothing new that employers bring in policies unpopular with some employees. Some employees can end up demoted or marginalised. You end up forced into contractual changes, unions may have helped negotiate them, with a choice to put up with it or leave. Been there, done that.
If this weren't the NHS I wonder just how much support they would get? I can't help think some are using public support of the NHS to win their point just as some MPs will use it for their own ends.
Funny thing is, there have been paranoid rabid anti vaxxers found in the NHS e.g. the nurse that got sacked. How many more are there and how can we tell the difference?
It's hard to retain confidence in people who can't be bothered. We expect these people to be the voice of reason when we need them. This debate is making me question their ability and that's unfair on those who are getting jabbed.
http://www.thebreathlessnessclinic.com/
It becomes clearer now...He's cashing in.
A consultant within the NHS is still left with the task of proving an assertion. Just because he’s a consultant doesn’t mean that the same rules of the burden of proof don’t apply to him. Put simply, his argument is a well known logical fallacy called argument from authority.
He may claim the science isn’t solid enough, that’s all well and good, now he has to prove it. Why isn’t it solid enough? In what context? Claiming low efficacy levels is not telling the full story. Is he just ignoring the fact that this time last year, with far lower infection levels within the UK, we were seeing upward of 1000 deaths per day?
This is certainly a debate worth having but there appears to be a lot of the same type of arguments seen from your average Joe who has refused the vaccine. Personally, I think the vast majority of folk who don’t want it have made a choice based on either wilful ignorance or a complete lack of understanding.
To demand their choice is “respected” is another strange request for me. I personally respect the right to choose, but when your choice falls on the side of not being vaccinated, I can not and will not respect it. We are in the midst of a global health emergency that has killed millions and seriously injured millions more. You reckon I need to respect the choice, from those tasked with giving us healthcare, of not taking the only preventative measure out there?
It’s a bit like a driving instructor refusing to wear a seatbelt and encouraging you not to stay within the speed limit. I don’t want people to lose jobs, ever. I do, however, want these people to truly consider that they may be being led up the garden path by money grabbing little con men who care only about lining their pockets.
Personally I want NHS staff, particularly those who are senior, to believe in the product they are administering to the population during a desperately worrying, and deadly, couple of years. If they don't 'believe in it' then maybe they aren't in the right occupation, as being in medicine surely means that you trust medicine, or more specifically SHOULD trust medicine ? A severe inconsistency of message is damaging to the population generally, at a time when people have been looking to the healthcare service for guidance, and there can certainly be no complaint about 'burden on the NHS' from NHS staff who are non-vaccinated.
Have a read of the NHS100k that has popped up to unite them in their struggle. Their argument about the science is all how vaccines aren't preventing transmission or catching it.
Imagine if we all took that view? Aren't we back to the much criticised herd immunity approach? So whilst we sit back and let it run riot all over the world aren't we allowing it to flourish and mutate?
It's beyond dispute that vaccination protects the vulnerable. But these people seem to fall into the "I'm young so leave me alone" group.
I like how they are pulling the equality law card to protect people based on religion. They will try that angle if they are threatened with redeployment too.
Oh, and selling their t shirts.
My body, my right to choose. Informed consent. So, they believe it's either not proven safe enough, may hold risks to some age groups or they themselves shouldn't need it due to age & health?
I think that informed consent is fine when it's only the person consenting who's affected by their decision.
This is bigger than that, though, and those who exercise their right to avoid the vaccine endanger people who, for whatever reason, aren't in a position to safely get it themselves.