Not a concern which stopped junior doctors and consultants from going on strike.

Most people just had a headache when they got covid.....and they called it a pandemic.... Lol

Over 80,000 health professionals in england refused the jab. I remember supporting them up London. Fantastic day.

I have no idea where you get that figure from. Most health care professionals understand the benefits of vaccination very well, as well as the additional risks they run in their jobs. There were some who were vocal about the initial mandate placed on them, which was withdrawn when things began to calm down so as to avoid losing staff. They were moved to non contact roles. My wife, who is a nurse, was unsure at first because it was so new and she had been reading some of the scaremongering. Her hospital made great efforts to explain and reassure and she is now not only fully vaccinated she is administering the vaccines on occasions.

You might be confusing health care professionals with those who work for the NHS in support roles. These are not front line workers and are going to have the same levels of anxiety, reluctance and propensity to gullibility as other groups of workers.

Indeed they are likely to have more than average, given the higher than average levels of ethnic minorities employed in support roles. It is a fact that a greater level of distrust existed in many of the ethnic minority groups, often fed by the way they regard authority. So it has taken time and effort to overcome reluctance and reassure people. I don’t know what the figures are now.

That was early on when the education campaign was only just starting. Of course you will find “freedom of choice” advocates in every walk of life. This guy was arguing from the narrow perspective that as he already had anti-bodies he didn’t need the vaccine. He wasn’t arguing against the vaccines themselves, unlike yourself. He was though still part of a small minority.

I asked where the 80,000 assertion comes from, as I don’t recognise it or believe it. Please provide your source and confirm this is for health care professionals (your original claim) and not just those who work within the NHS, which is very different.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (13 Nov 2023 8.54am)

I thought so.

That's the total number of the NHS workforce NOT the health care professionals which is what you claimed.

They include all the administration staff, lab technicians, pharmacists, maintenance workers, security staff, porters, cleaners, caterers and drivers. Of these, a higher than average proportion come from the ethnic minority communities who were known to have had a greater vaccine reluctance at that stage of the pandemic. 30,000 had medical exemptions at that time, which was almost 2 years ago when the mandate was still operative and the education programme in its infancy.

It would be interesting to see comparative figures today. From all I know the education effort worked very well and the level of reluctance is now no higher than is found amongst any group of workers.

If you think this justifies your stance, let alone proves anything much it doesn't. All it proves is that uninformed and gullible people exist everywhere.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (13 Nov 2023 12.40pm)