That is uneven. Patients can make their informed choices and have body autonomy.

Those drugs have not been subject to the widespread social media disinformation about vaccinations in general that predates this pandemic. It's just been ramped up 10-fold in the past year or so. I have friends in the USA who are convinced this is all population control initiated by Bill Gates and George Soros.

False accusations about the standard childhood vaccinations being responsible for autism have been in circulation for years and still believed by the impressionable.

Who is behind it and why? I'll give you 2 guesses. This is a very effective cold war for which we have yet to find an effective defence. Those who complain about freedom of speech and the need to ensure the social media platforms remove harmful content, need to mull over where their desires might lead to.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Eh? Do patients check on staff vaccination status regarding flu or diphtheria etc?

The old and vulnerable can refuse to be vaccinated.

If you read the information leaflet supplied; all drugs and medication whether oral or not can have dangerous side effects. From paracetamol to methotrexate and more. If I beleived it was 'me' that would get that 1 in 10000 or more bad side effect then I would be up that proverbial creek without a paddle anyway.

People should generally be free to make irrational decisions they perceive to be in their self interest if they really want to (even if those decisions are not). My reply made that clear. The making of room for decisions that are far from their ideal given the circumstances (staff shortages).

Still clearly with early, more dangerous variants the case was more than made that getting vaccinated reduced spread to others significantly therefore to suggest that it's outrageous for it to be mandatory in some circumstances (OAP homes too) is hardly out there. You might not personally feel that you have any meaningful obligation or connection to society, but it doesn't automatically get flung into some 'virtue signaling' or 'communist' bin as result. If you're around vulnerable people, you're paid to look after them not expose them to increased risk.

Edited by BlueJay (24 Jan 2022 10.19am)

Do you believe staff in the NHS need more education? Do you believe NHS staff have been misinformed by? The NHS themselves.

I work for the NHS.

People make informed choices for themselves. Each decision is an individual choice for the individual. Personal risk profiling is different for each individual. I am vaccinated x 3 but I wholly support colleagues’ decisions to make decisions for themselves.

Not being vaccinated does not impact everybody unless being vaccinated being vaccinated does too. Vaccination is not a silver bullet.

Society has an illogical position where care homes staff can be sacked now for not being vaccinated but NHS staff cant be .. Yet. Covid must affect the care sector differently. The risk profiling, the risk assessment doesn’t add up. NHS staff suddenly become dangerous in a couple of months .. There is misinformation and there is stupid.

As an individual who administers etc I have never been asked if I have been vaccinated for anything by a patient/service users. I don’t have to answer yes or no. As it is and was a personal and private decision between myself and the trust/service.