The jab or your job?

[LadyEmeraude]

Should all hospitals employees be mandated to get any recommended vaccines ?

Where to draw the line?

Your thoughts/ open topic/ take this topic wherever you want to.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I don’t believe that it should be mandatory but I do believe it should be encouraged and easily available.

I worry more about the anti vaccine movement against common childhood diseases like measles.

I’m afraid of what may be lurking at the bottom of the slippery slope.

 

[Oldeagle66]

As a healthcare worker, yes. I even had to get jabs just being a volunteer at the VA. Plus I was in the military and they were all mandatory.

 

[WheatenLover]

As an oncology patient, I believed I had the right not to be exposed to unvaccinated people. I fought for that right and it did no good.

I had no immune system left, and the only place I was exposed to Covid, for example, was at the hospital and by medical professionals. These same professionals were not required by their employer to divulge whether they had been vaccinated. Their employer had 93,000 employees who were not required to be vaccinated, although most were (ie, at least 51%).

In addition, with the vaccines available, I could not get the blood transfusion I needed-- I could only get half of it. Because our ICU was filled with unvaccinated Covid patients.

Then there were stores that required customers to wear masks inside. My son went in some of those stores, masked, and discovered the majority of the customers were not wearing masks. He talked to the managers, who told him that he couldn't risk saying anything in case someone got shot. In our state, the open carry of handguns was not prohibited. My son could see that some of the customers were carrying guns.

 

[Oldeagle66]

As an oncology patient, I believed I had the right not to be exposed to unvaccinated people. I fought for that right and it did no good.

I had no immune system left, and the only place I was exposed to Covid, for example, was at the hospital and by medical professionals. These same professionals were not required by their employer to divulge whether they had been vaccinated. Their employer had 93,000 employees who were not required to be vaccinated, although most were (ie, at least 51%).

That's terrible and I can understand from just recovering from chemo and radiation. Fortunately I was treated at the VA and they are strict about that.

 

[That Lady in PA]

Refusal to vaccinate has consequences.

Health care workers in my area are vaccinated for obvious reasons. If you cannot see why, you should not work with compromised people.

 

[IrishEyes]

Gr-daughter was a traveling nurse during covid and she had some heart-breaking stories.
I get them anyway so would make no difference.

 

[Nathan]

Sure, same as when I worked the jails- staff needed to be current on their vaccinations. With a dense population of patients or inmates disease spreads quickly, and doesn't distinguish between staff and the facility population.

 

[Muskrat]

I worked as a nurse for many years. Every flu/rsv season we were required to either get vaccinated or wear masks the entire season. I hated the masks. Took the vaccinations every year. When you get a job you sell your time to a person or entity to do what THEY want you to do. You can always quit or move on. My hospital would not let you wear perfume. I could not sport a tongue or nose piercing. I had to wear navy blue uniforms. I could not have a visible tattoo. So what? I sold my time. Glad I did.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

Interesting posts..

 

[Trade]

Should all hospitals employees be mandated to get any recommended vaccines ?

Where to draw the line?

Your thoughts/ open topic/ take this topic wherever you want to.

Yes. No exceptions.

Or perhaps we should go back to the "good old days" when 4 out of 10 newborns died before age 5.

 

[Lawrence00]

No, the employer can go to hell. Flu shots mostly do not work and are human experimentation and easy profits. Covid shots were mostly fake too.

 

[January]

Standard practice here - people working or volunteering in hospitals and the like need to be vaccinated for relevant diseases.
Babies in NICU ,people on dialysis, oncology etc are really vulnerable, protecting them is priority.

If you can't comply with that, working in acute health care is not for you

 

[-Oy-]

Yes they should. Why work in Health Care if you don't care that much about people's health?

 

[Warrigal]

Should all hospitals employees be mandated to get any recommended vaccines ?

Where to draw the line?

Your thoughts/ open topic/ take this topic wherever you want to.

Not really necessary any more. They have plenty of gear to use to avoid patients, visitors and staff from risk of infection. I visited an elderly lady from my church last week, and because she had an elevated temperature I was given the full kit to wear when I entered her room - face shield, N95 face mask, plastic gown and gloves. Her daughter, who was there before me was kitted out in the same gear, as was the doctor who was in the room explaining to her why she needed to stay in hospital for another night.

It turned out to be a serious infection and they kept her in hospital for another week. The stay in hospital was free, as was the treatment and meds she received.

If I were a worker in a hospital I would front up for every vaccination/booster shot I was offered.