Five Common Objections to Mandatory Vaccination for Healthcare Workers: A Medical Ethicist's View

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hi Mike,

This "if you're vaccinated" vs "unvaccinated" is the basic argument put forward at the moment. However, vaccination is either through a jab or through catching the virus.

If you have had covid19 then one can rightly claim to be vaccinated.....naturally.

There are kids who are developing Covid twice in fairly quick succession according to the news this morning - so perhaps having had Covid is like having been jabbed once, but not had the second or booster?

I know there are some data that suggest natural response to infection is at least as powerful as vaccine, but I don’t know whether those data predate Delta and Omicron (otherwise how are these kids getting it twice??)

 

[Deleted member 21371]

There are kids who are developing Covid twice in fairly quick succession according to the news this morning - so perhaps having had Covid is like having been jabbed once, but not had the second or booster?

I know there are some data that suggest natural response to infection is at least as powerful as vaccine, but I don’t know whether those data predate Delta and Omicron (otherwise how are these kids getting it twice??)

As a nurse my daughter has had it three times before getting her booster. Hopefully that's the end of it now for her run.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

He is not suggesting anything wrong with the vaccines or advising people not to take them,

He is now:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488083154887921665

 

[Windy]

I said a very bad word when I read that @Bruce Stephens . We're not just carrying the risk for ourselves, but what if you have it and stand next to someone in the supermarket who is vulnerable, or cough on your granny when you've got it and pass it on.
I know I don't want it, despite having 2 jabs and a booster, any more than I want the colds and flu that used to sweep my office pre-pandemic, when some "brave soldier" would struggle in, full of cold and pass it round to everyone.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

He isn't. Where has he said don't get vaccinated?

The summary is a bit clickbaity but not that bad, I think. He is saying that it would be better for "healthy" people to be infected rather than to take vaccination.

(And if some such people found themselves suffering from breathlessness, there are ways to help with that too.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488159456076734464

)

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sounds like the plan is being dropped, according to the news tonight.

 

[Northerner]

Sounds like the plan is being dropped, according to the news tonight.

Too late for the Care workers who were sacked months ago, and where staff shortages obviously aren't a concern to the government