I didn't follow that bit, I was more relating to the actual document, but that being the case, it's saying that they're 90% vaxxed, yet the crisis in the NHS is due to staff being off due to covid.
Its simple (I think?!) having the vacc doesn’t stop you catching the virus, so if you test positive you have to isolate even if you are healthy & symptom free. Madness really
And having had it, you have a similar level of protection as if you'd had the vaccine. I'm assuming that the NHS staff in question have been exposed since day one, so are liable to have acquired immunity anyway. Forcing a jab on them seems an expensive folly, that is unlikely to meet scientific rigours. If it's a global pandemic, wouldn't those vaccines be better given to countries in need?
The same argument could apply to the vaccine, given that fully vaxed and boosted people are being infected.
What amuses me is the though of reading 55,000 pages of Pfizer/FDA data a week. This from the country that has a law against "cruel and unusual punishments" Good luck!
Nigeria just dumped 1 million doses they had been gifted because they were close to being out of date,,!!
So it's looking more and more likely that Novak Djokovič will be allowed into Australia despite not been vaccinated, having had covid recently which gives him natural immunity. Some immigration lawyer on the news who has seen the papers the court will be presented with on Monday.
Given he's currently tested clear, the Aussies don't seem to have much faith in their measures of protection.
DeSantis talking about the testing regimes, if Americans want a competent and decent leader he would be the next president, one of the few so called leaders who's had any common sense over this last 2 years.
I believe that when the regulations were being drafted it made some sense. Now I think that it makes less sense and smacks of intransigence. I still believe that the risk of transmission and the viral load is higher in the unvaccinated and that everyone needs to be fully vaccinated. I do think though that people working with the extremely vulnerable should do whatever it takes to reduce the risk and if that means being vaccinated they should accept it as part of the job. Compulsory? If it’s the only way yes. But I don’t believe it is the only way.
I agree to a point, where I differ is that if someone has had covid, they're liable to be immune the same as if they've been vaxed. For front line staff, they probably receive a small 'booster' at very regular intervals from natural sources. Oh, and the initial regs didn't make sense at the time they were drafted, at least not according to those in the House of Lords tasked with appraising them. I posted the link to their report up thread.https://www.not606.com/threads/covi...e-from-13-12-21.387577/page-375#post-15489195
Protests in France today, at the moment you can only enter bars, restaurants and the like with a covid passport (two vaccinations) OR a negative covid test. Now they want to change that to only the vaccinated may enter, now why is that? A person who can show they are not carrying the virus will not be allowed in, but a vaccinated person who could be carrying the virus is free to enter. How strange.
There's elections coming up in France, it's political. Macron declared during the week he wanted to 'piss off' the unvaccinated, this is one way of doing it. He used the verb 'emmerder', which is a really, really bad word in the French language. Folk over there are astonished that a public figure would ever use it.
