Never saw that one coming.
Care homes are faced with the ultimatum of closing or breaking the law due to the Government’s ‘no jab, no job’ policy, it was claimed today.
Unions and care bosses have warned of a staffing exodus due to the requirement for carers to be vaccinated with two doses by November 11.
Today is the last day for tens of thousands of care home workers who are yet to get their first injection, due to the eight-week gap between doses.
Of the 470,000 care home workers who look after elderly residents in England, 92 per cent had their first dose as of September 5, while 84 per cent are fully-jabbed.
This is a sector that is low paid and under staffed. There will inevitably be refuseniks who will decide that they would rather walk than be forced to have a vaccine. They will find work elsewhere yet the care homes will scrabble to replace them, which is pretty much the situation now. It’s only going to get worse.
We, the people, have the power to wreck government’s plans if we refuse to comply. If enough of us just say “no” to their absurd rules and demands. The recent backtracking on vaccine passports is an example. I’m not naive enough to think that it is completely dead in the water as the bastards will wait for the inevitable spike in the autumn and use that as an excuse for another go. But, if only we all stood together we are many and they are few. We don’t even need to be a majority, just a significant minority that will put sand in the gears of their plans.
On that subject, this story warrants watching with interest.
An IT consultant is suing police for being ‘wrongfully’ arrested in Waitrose and claims she was strip-searched by police for refusing to wear a facemask while shopping despite being exempt.
Juliet Johnson says she was quizzed by store security and a manager at the store in Chichester, West Sussex, about not wearing a mask, which was compulsory at the time.
Although she said she had ‘proved’ she did not need to wear one as she suffers from an autoimmune disease which affects her breathing, police were called to the store.
Ms Johnson says that while browsing groceries she was then confronted by two officers and subsequently arrested, taken to a nearby police station, quizzed and strip-searched.
After being detained for two hours, the 55-year-old was released the same day with no charges.
I’m not sure that it should just be the police she should be taking action against. The regulations are clear – when challenged, all she needed to do was declare that she was exempt. At no point was she obliged to prove anything or declare her medical details. The arrest, therefore, seems suspect unless there is more to the story. Likewise, the store calling the police. But we have seen how the nasty control-freak authoritarians have jumped in this particular bandwagon in order to satisfy their fetish for bossing people around. It has, for the petty little nazis and stasi informants among us, been manna from heaven. It will be interesting to see how this one pans about. However, again, refusal to obey in sufficient numbers will undermine the policy and make it unenforceable. And, yes, I fully expect this anti-scientific bullshit to be re-established come late autumn.
Related story from the US.
https://tennesseestar.com/2021/08/23/commentary-massive-nurse-shortage-hits-houston-weeks-after-150-unvaccinated-nurses-and-hospital-workers-fired/
On the masks, which I admit might be getting to be an obsession, I have noticed a few things. Buses, with displays on the front saying that face coverings must be worn, are allowing people on without them. They are mostly empty anyway so people are sitting far apart. People are starting to wear their masks under their chins or with their noses sticking over the top. In the supermarket it still seems to be about half of people wearing them. There are still people, usually oldies walking alone in the street with masks on. One newish development is that some are now wearing a perspex visor instead, I’m not sure if this is more or less ridiculous than the cloth masks.
This from the US too:
Masks, as Twitter wags have noted, are by now the equivalent of MAGA hats for Blue America. As washed-up child activist David Hogg put it last year, “I feel the need to continue wearing my mask outside, even though I’m fully vaccinated, because the inconvenience of having to wear a mask is more than worth it to have people not think I’m a conservative.”
Such statements capture an unfortunate fact about our society: We’re so politically tribalized that even our response to the pandemic says more about politics than about anything else. That’s especially true when it comes to masking.
Yes, over in the land of the free not wearing a mask means that you support Trump. Of course when Trump suggested that masks might possibly help, masks were denounced by the Dems as being unsupported by science.
Likewise vaccines.
Yes, but in both cases, what are we to make of the mentality that decides on matters of fact based on who said it? If bad person said it isn’t then it definitely is. If good person said it isn’t then that’s enough for me. We often refer to stopped clocks on the rare occasions when someone like Owen Jones or Richard Murphy gets something right. What we don’t do is automatically believe the opposite because of who said it.
I don’t know. It’s almost a religious belief system.
Just to add:
This is boilerplate pomposity that we can usually expect from these vacuous, tribal cockwombles.
Covid has become an excuse for Governments to grab more and more power.
Any liberties we lose are almost never returned, even those losses claimed to be “temporary”.