News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Disgraced ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for immediate mandatory vaccination of NHS staff. His article is full of factual and logical errors, however, and puts his authoritarian impulse on stark display.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid is believed to be keen to introduce legislation forcing all NHS workers to be vaccinated against Covid "as soon as possible", despite fears of staff shortages.
A judge has ruled that New York health care workers can avoid the vaccine mandate on religious grounds, following reports that aborted fetal tissue is being used to develop jabs.
All frontline NHS staff could be forced to get vaccinated against Covid (or be forced out of their jobs) under plans being drawn up by Sajid Javid – with the backing of Boris Johnson.
Sajid Javid says he is not willing to delay the imposition of mandatory vaccination rules for care home workers and that those who refuse to get 'jabbed' should “get out and get another job”.
60% of care homes could be forced to sack some of their staff because of the Covid vaccine mandate, according to new estimates, with almost 4% of managers fearing they could lose up to a fifth of their workforce.
Almost a quarter of U.S. hospitals are requiring their staff to get 'jabbed' against Covid as a condition of employment, despite the efforts of some state leaders to ban vaccine mandates.
Thousands have taken to the streets in France to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to force all health workers to get vaccinated and to introduce vaccine passport checks in almost all indoor settings.
Emmanuel Macron has mandated Covid vaccination for all French health workers and has introduced vaccine passports in many settings, effectively cutting off unvaccinated French people from their daily lives.
300 healthcare workers in Italy have launched legal action against their Government in a "democratic battle" against the forced vaccination of staff.
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