Health Minister Nadine Dorries says she opposes the idea of care home staff being forced to take Covid vaccines. MailOnline has the story.
The Government last month launched a consultation into whether mandatory vaccines for carers would work and be ethical, with a final decision expected by July.
Ms Dorries’ boss, Matt Hancock, has publicly endorsed the proposal, arguing that care home staff have a “duty of care” to elderly residents most vulnerable to Covid.
Quizzed about the plans on LBC radio this morning, Ms Dorries said: “Would I force people to be vaccinated? No I wouldn’t force people to be vaccinated.”
… Latest NHS England figures released last month suggested about 78.9% of care home staff nationwide have had the jab. But in 17 local authority areas, fewer than 70% have received a first dose.
When the consultation was announced on April 14th, Mr Hancock claimed care home bosses were united in their calls for a “no jab, no job” policy. A final decision on whether to force staff to be vaccinated is expected by July.
Boris Johnson’s official spokesman previously accepted it would be “discriminatory” to force anyone to be vaccinated.
Documents leaked in March revealed that both the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary “agreed – in order to reach a position of much greater safety for care recipients – to put in place legislation to require vaccinations among the workforce“. Similar requirements are being considered for healthcare workers, such as those who work on hospital wards, according to reports – but there has been a good amount of opposition to the idea within the health profession.
The Royal College of Nursing, which has a membership of 450,000 registered nurses, said last month that health and social care staff should not be “coerced” into having a Covid vaccine, and the Royal College of General Practitioners, representing over 50,000 British GPs, said a mandatory rollout would only lead to “resentment and mistrust”.
The MailOnline report is worth reading in full.
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When Doris II is on the side of the angels, we know that things are incredibly bad!
Attacking people when they’re saying the right thing is going to help us how, exactly?
It’s very easy.
The only ethical thing to do here is what DeSantis did: make discrimination by any business or organization against an unvaxxed or no jab/no job as illegal as discriminating against an exempt unmasked, black/white, homo/hetero, muslim/jew etc..
What is this supposedly freedom loving, conservative and anti-discrimination government waiting for?!
Everyone to buckle under, by the look of it.
Not reassuring. Some of the things we’ve seen so far:
October 2020
Kate Bingham (head of UK vaccine taskforce)
“Only the ‘at risk’ will need to be vaccinated; this idea that all of the population will need to be is misguided”
November 2020
Matt Hancock
“This is an adult only vaccine, this will not be used in children” because “the likelihood of children having significant detriment if they catch COVID-19 is very very low”
December 2020
Nadhim Zahawi (Minister for COVID vaccines)
“There will be no vaccine passports“
Well captured.
Another one: “There is going to be no vaccination of people under 18” – Kate Bingham, October 2020 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-vaccine-when-uk-population-age-b791949.html
Nadine Dorries – the Health Minister who back in Oct 2020 tweeted that there was no such thing as herd immunity.
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When someone has said something sensible, it is counterproductive to bring up historical examples of him getting things wrong. We are attempting to win a critical debate about freedom, are we not? Not running the campaign of an opposing candidate in Nadine Dorries’s constituency.
Maybe Nadine has learnt a few things, since typing that Tweet.
Here’s hoping.
Is Nadine “Gender Fluid”?
Oh dear….
If you work in a care home you do not have to tell anyone you suffer from AIDS or Hepatitis, you don’t have to disclose your medical history. How can an employer not be able to sack you for those communicable diseases, but can apparently sack you for failure to have a jab for a disease you don’t have?
Doctors and nurses who follow science and first do no harm should find jobs in Florida, Texas, S Carolina – just leave the UK. Stay away, leave the NHS, save lives.
“The Royal College of Nursing, which has a membership of 450,000 registered nurses, said last month that health and social care staff should not be “coerced” into having a Covid vaccine, and the Royal College of General Practitioners, representing over 50,000 British GPs, said a mandatory rollout would only lead to “resentment and mistrust”.
…but it is deemed acceptable for their members to be complicit and coerce the public to have the odious injections in the ‘health care’ farce?
Hang on – where does this leave Vax passports? How can it be OK to discriminate against care workers who don’t want the poison while saying they shouldn’t be coerced into having it?
Until all trials are completed for experimental biologicals, it is against the law to mandate experimental drugs for anyone. If this government decides to do this they will have one hell of a shortage of care workers and an even bigger problem than COVID on their filthy hands. Women of child bearing age, beware, there is NO longer term safety or efficacy data known about these experimental biologicals, none.
Mandatory vaccination – unnecessary, dangerous and illegal.
More and more people are waking up to the fact they don’t need an experimental ‘vaccine’ for which many of the short term adverse side effects go unrecorded. The long term adverse effects have yet to emerge as most of the phase III trials of the vaccines don’t finish until 2023. If you do get Covid-19 Ivermectin has been proven to reduce symptoms and aid recovery. It s cheap prophylactic drug widely available but not used because the drug companies, government and media want you to have their vaccines so they can make obscene profits for themselves.