The NHS vaccine mandate should be cancelled to prevent staff shortages, the Royal College of GPs has said, as thousands took to the streets across England to protest against the policy. The BBC has more.
NHS staff must have a first jab by February 3rd and be fully vaccinated by April 1st to continue in frontline roles.
The Department of Health said there were no plans to delay and it was “the right thing to do to protect patients”.
NHS workers who oppose the Government’s mandatory vaccination policy have staged a protest in central London.
Demonstrations were also held in other cities across England including Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. …
Martin Marshall, Chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said compulsory vaccination for health professionals in England was “not the right way forward”.
He said the vast majority of staff were vaccinated but some 70,000 to 80,000 were not and they accounted for 10% of staff at some hospital or GP surgeries.
Some 94.3% of NHS trust health care workers in England have had a first dose of vaccine and 91.5% have had a second dose, figures to December 31st show.
If unvaccinated staff were taken out of frontline roles by April 1st there would be “massive consequences” for the NHS, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
He said a delay would allow time for booster jabs and a “sensible conversation” about whether vaccines should be mandatory at all.
Danny Mortimer, deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said some frontline staff would have to leave their roles if they choose not to be vaccinated.
He said: “This will reduce frontline NHS staff numbers even further and lead to more gaps in capacity at a time of intense pressure and patient demand.”
In London, demonstrators marched from Regents Park to the BBC headquarters in Portland Place in a peaceful protest against mandating vaccines for health workers.
But Dr. Nikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said health care professionals had “a duty” to make sure they were protected.
She said: “If you’re marching today, just take a moment, think about the people that you’ve been looking after who have experienced Covid, think about your colleagues who you’ve been working with, and think about the best way to make sure that we’re all protected, and that we’re all as safe as possible, because we are very much in this together and it’s down to us to look after each other too.”
Meanwhile, Kate, a nurse in Hampshire, told the Today programme she was prepared to lose her job rather than have a coronavirus vaccine against her will.
“I don’t feel like the vaccination needs to be mandated because we are medical professionals and we have enough information to make that decision for ourselves,” she said.
“When I had Covid I was ill but not particularly unwell and when it comes to me being forced to do something or lose my job, I just can’t understand how they think that’s a sensible position. I’m good at my job, I care about people, and I certainly have never and would never put people at risk.”
Pressure growing on the Government to U-turn on this, which can’t come too soon. With the evidence that Omicron both evades the vaccines and is mild, what justification there might have been has now clearly evaporated. Perhaps the Government is leaving the U-turn to the last moment in order to maximise the pressure on unvaccinated staff to accept the jab. Which is of course cruel, but then so is the policy so we can hardly expect them to care about that.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: talkRADIO has tweeted about the protests taking place today in London and across the country: “Thousands of people have gathered in central London to protest against the mandatory vaccine mandate that could see more than 70,000 NHS workers lose their jobs.“
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“Pride rainbow gets ‘inclusive’ makeover – but still not everyone is happy” –
Does anyone know which colour they’ve used for Heterosexual? Hard to claim ‘inclusivity’ when 90% of the population aren’t represented, isnt it..?
Ahhh, I’m just joking. Once you get beyond LGB, the activity represented should be a source of shame, not pride.
In conversation now I always respond to someone mentioning Trans-women as “Oh you mean a man pretending to be a woman”.
People don’t like it but WTF; let’s call a spade a spade.
Absolutely correct, and worth repeating that there is no right not to be offended.
“…the concept of [Gay] ‘Pride’ as something to be celebrated [is] rather odd. I wasn’t, and am still not, remotely proud, or indeed ashamed, of my sexual orientation. I consider it utterly unremarkable, and ideally, I’d like everybody else to feel that way too….”
Pride has become pompous, grotesque and intolerant.
GARETH ROBERTS8th June 2022
To hell with Pride Month – spiked (spiked-online.com)
The Israelites at least made a golden calf as object of worship which marks them as people with a very human inclination for culture and art. The rainbow crowd believes their entirely irrelevant selves are a worthy substitute for both and consequently, prefers to dance around themselves. I don’t want to be represented in this carnival of the airheads.
Pilots speak out about vaccine-induced injuries and deaths
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-06-21-pilots-speak-out-vaccine-induced-injuries-deaths.html
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“What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?” Of all the mind boggling things that have happened in the last two years, this is perhaps the boggliest. Whether, like most of the people on this site, you think that the response to the pandemic caused more harm than good, or you think that it was a deadly virus that merited the extraordinary measures applied, you should at the very least be curious about the origins and downright furious if it turns out to be man-made. But there is nothing in the media, just crickets. When you think of some of the media frenzies in the past over events that pale into significance compared to Covid, it really is very curious.
Does the Mail think that gonorrhoea is a viral disease? Unbelievable!
Pandemic Logic
Economic woes in the UK aren’t due to lockdowns because the whole world is experiencing similar woes.
That’s because countries all over the world locking down over the last 2 years had no effect on the rest of the world.
The fact that people seem to think that you can print as much money as you want with no consequence is a pretty sad commentary on the intelligence of the British public.
And the bleeding politicians.
I’m not an economist but I can understand that if you print money, inflation follows closely behind.
May RPI: 11.7%, up from 11.1% in April.
May annual rate 11.7%, compared with 11.1% annual rate in April
https://nyheder-tv2-dk.translate.goog/samfund/2022-06-22-set-i-bakspejlet-fik-vi-ikke-meget-ud-af-at-vaccinere-boernene-erkender-brostroem?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
hope the link works, had to do it through Google translate!
Denmark….We have become wiser, and we would not do the same today, says Søren Brostrøm. Director General of the Danish Health Authority.
With the knowledge we have today, we did not get much out of having children vaccinated against coronavirus last year.
The director of the National Board of Health, Søren Brostrøm, acknowledged this on Wednesday, when the future Corona strategy has been presented.
Where we are……you couldn’t make it up!!?
https://nypost.com/2022/06/21/transgender-ex-neo-nazi-robber-donna-langan-to-receive-fast-tracked-gender-confirmation-surgeries/
Transgender ex-neo-Nazi robber to receive fast-tracked ‘gender confirmation surgeries’
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is hastening a transgender ex-neo-Nazi bank robber’s “gender confirmation surgeries” after the inmate filed a lawsuit against the federal agency claiming it denied previous requests for the surgery.In 1997, Donna Langan, born Peter Kevin Langan, was convicted to life in prison plus 35 years in two separate trials for robbing two banks using firearms and “a destructive device,” assaulting federal officers and further firearms charges, according to Ohio federal court documents.
Langan, 63, was part of a small, neo-Nazi group called the “Aryan Republican Army” (ARA) at the time of his crimes with the goal of funneling money from the banks he robbed to the ARA, according to court documents.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry!!
“Why is anybody surprised? You can’t lock down an economy and a society, pay millions of people to do nothing, spend and borrow and print tens of billions of pounds, and expect there to be no consequences, no day of reckoning, no bill to pay.”
Excuse me where was this **** when the lockdowns were happening? Taking money from Bill Gates and going along with the narrative -that’s where.
The hypocrisy and cowardice of the Telegraph and it’s staff know no bounds.
Will, ONS data on death by vaccination status. You may want to have a shufty at it & at the graph. Very sad & incredibly depressing that the NHS & officialdom is still peddling this snake oil injection.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsbyvaccinationstatusengland
Please just stop!! It’s bad enough instilling so much fear that people still test. Friends 60th weekend – everyone has to show proof of LFT. Well least I get my weekend back.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/wrist-worn-trackers-can-detect-covid-before-symptoms-study-finds