Councils in variant “hotspots” have begun vaccinating children against Covid ahead of an official decision on the matter from the Government, with one inviting thousands of 16 and 17 year-olds to “drop into one of our vaccine clinics” without the need of an appointment. It is not clear whether these clinics only vaccinate children whose parents have given their consent. The Telegraph has the story.
On Friday, Rochdale Borough Council invited “anyone aged 16 and over” to have a first dose of the Pfizer jab without the need for an appointment. Another drive-through clinic for teenagers is due to take place in the town on Saturday.
On Friday night, a spokesman for the council and local NHS clinical commissioning group said a “multi-agency decision” had been taken to expand the criteria to 16 and 17 year-olds because Rochdale was “again in a desperate race to stay ahead of the virus”.
The spokesman said: “Our borough is one of the areas of the country worst affected by coronavirus and our infection rate is now approaching that seen in Bolton a few weeks ago. Among our younger age groups, the rate is almost 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.
“Many 16 and 17 year-olds with underlying health conditions have already been vaccinated but many other younger adults who are at risk for different reasons are falling outside national protocols.
“On that basis, and to avoid any vaccine wastage, a multi-agency decision was taken with clinical leads to temporarily expand the qualifying criteria for at-risk 16 and 17-year-olds for our clinics this weekend, but following discussions we have now revised our plans.”
GPs in west London and other parts of the country have also given the vaccine to healthy under-18s in recent weeks, it is understood.
A senior NHS source said on Friday that action would be taken against GPs and local authorities who “go rogue” by ignoring national guidelines. …
Yet in a leaflet seen by the Telegraph, Rochdale Borough Council invited thousands of under-18s to come forward for their first Pfizer jab. It said: “If you’re aged 16 or over and have not got an existing appointment, please drop into one of the extra vaccine clinics.”
In an accompanying video posted online, Dr Mo Jiva, the Chief Executive Officer of the Rochdale and Bury Local Medical Committee, invited anyone aged 16 or above to “come down and receive their first or second vaccine” at a drive-through clinic in a gym car park. “We hope to see you tomorrow,” Dr Jiva said. …
A source at Rochdale Borough Council said the move to vaccinate under-18s was a “clinical decision”.
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Look just get up the f…..g ladder
Perhaps “Fire” is just a label that runs along a spectrum? Maybe the service should think twice about responding to an emergency call, if it’s just a “conflagration”, “blaze” or “flickering flames”.
But I’m sure that courses on the spectrum of gender will help them put out house fires more efficiently!
It’s hard to think of a less gender-relevant job… except that your female-male trans firefighter is going to be significantly lacking in physical strength, endangering both colleagues and the public.
Rapid promotion to a desk-based senior rank.
“in white Western cultures, gender is seen as being an either/or choice, also known as a binary”.
Well, in every culture on Planet Earth, since time immemorial, sex has been correctly recognised as an either/or fact (not a choice).
Their statement doesn’t even make sense on their own mad terms, because if your evil White western culture correctly observes that there are two sexes, they will also correctly observe that sex is not a choice but simply a fact determined by the hand of fate.
The fire service is not made up of private companies therefore it is a public service. Like the Civil Service, It is not a plaything for activists or similar individuals that haven’t matured enough to be aligned with reality. Would using the correct pronouns have allowed the fire chiefs at the Grenfell Tower disaster to have read the reality of the situation so as to abandon the rules and get the inhabitants out one way or the other?
All too stupid for words.
Another question to consider is who gave the fire service “educators” their own education in biology, sociology, philosophy, psychology and metaphysics to qualify them to teach these subjects to their staff.
I’ve no doubt that some ordinary firemen have, through choice or necessity like so many nowadays, foresworn careers in these subjects before signing up. So are they not perfectly entitled to tell these amateur experts to shove their theories up their hoses?
You can’t just mess with someone’s world view and epistemology even if you are the Messiah. I think the offence consists in the sheer effrontery of me telling my neighbour that I have a hitherto unrevealed truth to tell them and that once I have told them they will be expected to take it as gospel. This is not human interaction it is a reflection of something else. Fortunately even the simple-minded have the nous to see this for the most part.
For all you firefighters out there – there is a choice, you may have to sit and listen to this crap, but you don’t have to believe it.
Well, I suppose it is important to know if you are called out to rescue a cat from up a tree, whether it is a felis catus or whether it is someone identifying himself/herself/themselves as a cat.
It takes balls to go into a burning building.
It’s not possible to ‘teach’ adult human beings something that is biologically, scientifically, and morally bonkers…you may be able to persuade them that to prevent being disciplined or sacked they should just nod and agree…hopefully there’s enough sensible firefighters to disagree…and yes just put the fires out, rescue folks from fires, crashes, flooding, etc….