I’m sure Biden will be out with a new vaccine mandate at any time
Exclusive: U-turn on mandatory Covid vaccinations for NHS and social care workers
Mandatory Covid jabs for NHS and social care workers are set to be scrapped, The Telegraph can reveal, after warnings of crippling staff shortages if the plan went ahead.
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, will on Monday meet fellow ministers on the Covid-Operations Cabinet committee to rubber stamp the decision on the about-turn.
Multiple government sources said ministers are expected to end the requirement because the omicron Covid variant, now dominant in the UK, is milder than previous strains.
The move comes after warnings that almost 80,000 healthcare workers would be forced out of their jobs because they had declined to take two doses of a Covid vaccine.
The time frame of the existing mandate meant the health care workers had to get their first shot by February 3rd, in order to be able to get their 2nd and be considered fully vaccinated by April. These same healthcare workers worked throughout the pandemic prior to vaccines being developed, but, of course, were turned into Villains after the vaccines if they refused to get the jab.
The legal requirement for care home staff to be fully vaccinated came into effect in November. An estimated 40,000 people lost their jobs over the policy. Under the new rules, they are expected to be able to return to work in the sector.
I personally think it’s a mistake to not get vaccinated, if you can, in order to protect yourself. Doesn’t mean you won’t get COVID, just, most likely, it will be mild. Governments made a big mistake in pushing their “we’re in this together, you need to protect everyone else” talking points, rather than “listen, protect yourself, OK?”
Meanwhile
T-Mobile to terminate corporate employees who aren’t vaccinated by April -memo
T-Mobile US Inc will fire corporate employees who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by April 2, according to an internal company memo posted on the blog The T-MO Report.
The blog said T-Mobile’s new policy was announced on Friday in an email from its human resource chief to all staff. It follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Jan. 13 that blocked President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses.
“Employees who have not yet taken action to receive their first dose and upload proof by February 21 will be placed on unpaid leave,” the blog quoted the memo as saying. “Affected employees who do not become fully vaccinated … by April 2 will be separated from T-Mobile.”
The memo, addressed to “all employees (excluding international),” stated that the vaccine rules do not apply to field technicians and most in-store retail roles.
So, why not the techs and store employees? If they were serious, they’d include them. Also, why wait to do this a year and a half after the vaccines were announced? It’s very silly.
Vaccine mandate could spell trouble for seasonal migrant workers: COVID updates
A Department of Homeland Security COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which took effect Jan. 22, is expected to severely restrict the travel of thousands of H-2A seasonal guest workers this year.
The H-2A program allows agricultural employers to bring foreign workers to the United States for agricultural labor or services on a temporary or seasonal basis.
DHS announced the restrictions on Jan. 20, requiring?non-U.S. individuals?seeking to enter the U.S. via land ports of entry?and?ferry terminals?at?the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada?borders?to?be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide related proof of vaccinations.
Yet, DHS is allowing illegal aliens into the nation without vaccination. Go figure.
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