Sajid Javid may come to regret his words.
Care home workers who refuse to take the Covid vaccine should ‘get out and get another job’, health secretary Sajid Javid has said.
There are those who have already made that decision. Let’s put it this way, the care sector is hard work, low paid and thankless. Flipping burgers in the local fast food outlet is probably more rewarding, frankly. I know a number of people in this industry and I’m mildly surprised with what they endure, because I wouldn’t.
The sector is struggling to fill posts. This new barrier just made it more difficult. So when the government is bemoaning the lack of care workers as it is currently doing over haulage, then we can throw Javid’s words right back at him.
‘If you think about your elderly relatives you might have in care homes, and the idea that someone wants to look after them and they don’t want to take a perfectly safe and effective vaccine that has been approved by our regulators, been used all over the world, because somehow they have got some objection to this vaccine, then really, honestly, they shouldn’t be in our care homes.
‘They should go and get another job. I am very clear on that.’
You are an ignorant, malipulative arsehole who is twisting words and demonising people for making a perfectly rational decision. I am very clear on that. Much as I despise Angela Rayner, she did use the appropriate words to describe these people even if it includes herself. I don’t currently have a relative in care, but be assured that the vaccine status of the care workers would be irrelevant if I did. When my mother was briefly in a care home, none of us thought about, nor even considered whether the staff had been vaccinated against any common diseases that might have been doing the rounds at the time.
“approved by our regulators” That should be a warning in itself. After all, who is regulating the regulators? The “experts”?
The Covid vaccine doesn’t work like a conventional vaccine. It does not prevent transmission of the virus. It protects the recipient and no one else. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Still, now that politicians have decided that they can redefine reality, hopefully they will then have a problem pushing masks and lockdowns again once everyone who wanted the vaccine has had it. We are all now fully protected so what’s the problem?
As a care home worker we have lost a couple of good workers over this issue. We are so short of staff this month I am due to work 22 nights out of 31. Was suposed to have tonight off but as they are desparate I’m going in to do a sleep in. Covering someone who has this bad cold that is knocking people out. She was prepared to go in if they could not find anyone to cover. Now who is going to pass infections round, my friend with a cold or a non vaccinated healthy person.
We have asked for more pay but so far it’s fallen on deaf ears. We live in hope.
Oh and the jobs the carers have gone to pay more, regular hours, sick pay and career prospects so they aren’t complaining ????
Exactly.
“The Covid vaccine doesn’t work like a conventional vaccine. It does not prevent transmission of the virus. It protects the recipient and no one else. ”
I don’t think that’s true for all vaccines at all (that they do prevent transmission). The regular flu virus works well some years and not very well other years.
Anyhow, the health secretary may not know, but the NHS adverts clearly state that the vaccines don’t prevent transmission, as does the manufacturers guidance, so he has no excuse.
Someone’s vaccine status is entirely irrelevant, it is their infection status that matters.
Average time for a drug to be given ‘Full Market Authorisation’ (ALL the trials conducted including on animals, all testing protocols, government oversight etc. etc) = 12 years.
Average time for a ‘Black box warning’ (side effects so severe the drug is withdrawn or severely restricted) = 4 years.
NO ONE knows the long term effects of these drugs. NO ONE.
Take it if you personally choose but no one is qualified to advocate it for anyone else. And the idea of giving it to growing children is child abuse.
You’d think these people would remember Thalidomide.
I’m not sure I’d use the word “advocate” here. This is blatant coercion.
I don’t have a problem with vaccination, or any similar aspect, being a precondition of employment for new recruits: I do have a problem when the terms of the employment contract are arbitrarily changed for existing employees without negotiation.
If I were an existing employee when such a change of contract terms was imposed, I would consider that to be constructive dismissal and take appropriate action. If the tribunals were immediately flooded with such cases, perhaps a rethink may occur.
Even as a precondition it crosses a boundary between work and personal. No one should have the right to enforce something so deeply personal. That said, if job hunting I was to come across such a precondition, I would look elsewhere for precisely that reason.