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Mandatory Vaccination Will Cause One in 10 Care Workers to Lose Their Jobs

by Luke Perry
9 November 2021 12:14 PM
Influenza vaccine injection. Injection into a patient's arm of the 2018/2019 seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine for the northern hemisphere season. This is a quadrivalent inactivated vaccine designed for intramuscular and subcutaneous injection. Inactivated influenza vaccines contain dead influenza viruses. When injected, these stimulate the body's immune system to produce antibodies that protect against future infection by live viruses. Influenza vaccination is recommended for the elderly, the very young, and anyone suffering from respiratory or circulatory disease. It is provided annually because of the need to protect against new strains. This is a vaccine from the Sanofi Pasteur Europe company.

Influenza vaccine injection. Injection into a patient's arm of the 2018/2019 seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine for the northern hemisphere season. This is a quadrivalent inactivated vaccine designed for intramuscular and subcutaneous injection. Inactivated influenza vaccines contain dead influenza viruses. When injected, these stimulate the body's immune system to produce antibodies that protect against future infection by live viruses. Influenza vaccination is recommended for the elderly, the very young, and anyone suffering from respiratory or circulatory disease. It is provided annually because of the need to protect against new strains. This is a vaccine from the Sanofi Pasteur Europe company.

The Government is set to introduce a mandatory vaccination requirement for all care home staff this Thursday, with one in 10 employees facing the sack because they haven’t received both doses of a Covid vaccine. In addition, the General Secretary of Unison, a trade union which represents public sector workers, has called on the Government to scrap the vaccine mandate as it will “cause more harm than good”. The Times has the story.

The Government’s policy requiring all care home staff to have had two doses of the vaccine comes into force on Thursday, and the Care Quality Commission said it would take action if necessary to ensure people’s safety.

Social care experts warned that the measure was likely to exacerbate existing staff shortages, leaving people without the care they needed, and one of the biggest trade unions urged the Government to reconsider its position.

In 76 out of 151 upper-tier local authorities in England, more than 10% of staff in care homes for older adults were not fully vaccinated, according to NHS England statistics up to the end of last month.

Nationally, 89.4% of the almost 462,000 staff working in older adult care homes were double-jabbed.

The lowest rates were in Thurrock, Essex, and Manchester, where only 79.1% and 79.4% of staff were double-jabbed. The highest rates were in York, where 94.8% of staff were double-vaccinated, and Rutland, where the figure was 95.6%.

Some of those who are unvaccinated will have medical exemptions, whereas others may not have recorded their vaccination properly.

Simon Bottery, the Senior Fellow in Social Care at the King’s Fund think tank, said the sector would lose workers, with the only question being how many. The Government’s own estimate is that about 40,000 staff could leave as a result of the policy.

Bottery said: “In the last full year for which we’ve got statistics, there were over 100,000 vacancies at any one time. We also know that although the vacancies fell in the initial stages of the pandemic, they’ve since been increasing, and they’re now almost certainly higher than they were before the pandemic started.

“There’s a chronic problem with recruiting into adult social care, and that problem is becoming really acute. And the moment the sector loses a significant number of staff on top of the existing problem, then it creates really significant serious problems for the providers but also crucially for people who rely on adult social care services.”

Mike Padgham, Chairman of the Independent Care Group, who has worked in the sector for 30 years, said at the weekend that the deadline could mean up to 500 homes across England having to close their doors.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Care homesMandatory VaccinesStaff shortages

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

Birds of Prey are always looking down. They don’t see the blades coming. I guarantee you that if fossil fuels wiped out birds and bats on an industrial scale like this there would be flames spitting from the silly eco socialists eyes and shops will be sold out of super glue.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

I stopped and talked to an RSPB activist who was manning a stall a few weeks ago. I told her that I would start to take the “charity” seriously when they started campaigning against the bird-slaughtering wind turbines which so-called environmentalists are promoting on land and sea.

She looked stunned that I had dared to challenge the good intentions of so-called environmentalists …. and had no response to my argument.

Needless to say they didn’t get a penny from me.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

Brainwashed people go with the flow. They become part of the group think because that is much easier than thinking for themselves.. A few years ago I was speaking to a married couple who were both Zoologists. They started to talk about the climate and pollution. So I asked them “What kind of pollution are you referring to”? The husband replied “CO2”. ——So I asked “How much CO2 is in the atmosphere, and how much comes from humans”? Neither of them could answer. They could not even venture a guess. This is what propaganda and groupthink does to you. People will tend to believe things the most about which they know least about. Just like the RSPCA person you mentioned.

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ELH
ELH
1 year ago
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The RSPB also buy into the “avian flu” argument rather than that 5G are killing sea birds.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

I look at all the fuss made about coral reefs and then compare it with the lack of fuss over major bird and bat species and think that these people don’t really care for diversity.
Hypocrites.

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Uncle Monty
Uncle Monty
1 year ago

“Bat-slicing, bird-chomping eco-crucifixes!”
As James D would say.

Wait until they realise that the sonar navigation of marine mammals gets totally destroyed by offshore wind farms.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

The people want to destroy the environment with useless wind turbines and solar panels

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