Rubbish, the vaccine doesn't stop the spread of Covid, it just stops you being seriously ill if you do catch it.
If you have been vaccinated then let those who choose not to be get on with it.
I work for the NHS, I've had my Covid jabs but I fully respect my colleagues who choose not to have the vaccine.
Their body, their choice.
Wrong. Vaccination reduces transmission as well as reducing symptoms, intensity and longevity of the disease, which in itself is going to limit transmission. Fewer symptoms, a less intense illness fought off more easily by the immune system from the start = smaller viral load to spray in others' faces.
One dose of COVID-19 vaccine can cut household transmission by up to half - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
How the hell do you work in healthcare and 'respect' antivaxxers, whose whole platform is built on the kind of egregious scientific illiteracy, intense logical fallacies and truly wilful ignorance that should never have been let out of high school with some kind of intervention? I know a few doctors and they have special words for antivaxxers who work in hospitals in any regard at all and none of them are remotely 'respectful'.
As for my body, my choice. That one doesn't really work well outside of abortion arguments. It is their
choice to work in healthcare alongside vulnerable patients. That's all. Your choices should end where you start endanger others. If you reject vaccination, you should probably choose to find a job in a field where you aren't around sick people with impaired immune systems on a daily basis. Just like those pharmacists who argue it's their sacred 'choice' not to dispense emergency contraception or the pill or alcohol-based things or indeed anything else that bothers their dainty religious feelings. It should be their choice to find a different field of work if they cannot respect the patient's need for prescribed legal medications.
Short version; in healthcare as a profession, some of your choices affect more than you and that includes vaccinations.
But anyway, big applause! Maybe someone will stand in the street and dopily bang a pan outside for you and your dumb colleagues' entirely uninformed 'choice' to potentially burden the precious NHS with their extra-sickly bodies if they catch COVID without the benefit of having been vaccinated.
Remember the pleas to 'save the NHS' from the burden of hospitalizations due to COVID by staying indoors? The whole stated reason for the interminable lockdowns and infringement on various actual civil liberties and the actual criminalisation of previous freedoms? Save the NHS. Save the NHs. Save the NHS. Broken record since March 2020. How does that chime with your stance that it's perfectly respectable for the same sainted NHS workers to 'choose' to eschew the
one thing that is already shown to keep the infected out of the ICU and prevent overburdening the system? Perhaps we all should have made our 'choice' to party at will and risk infecting ourselves instead? You know, if 'my body my choice and fuck everyone else' is really that respectable an argument here.
I truly hope you're actually in some crappy admin job and stuck in a shit office somewhere with that attitude to patient care. No wonder a huge percentage of COVID infections have been consistently spread inside NHS hospitals from day one and continue to be with that cavalier, unscientific attitude. I imagine washing hands is a 'choice' too among some of you. Given the disgusting rates of nosocomial infections even preceding covid, it likely is.
I'd be interested to see how this 'body and choice' mantra fares with you in regard to things like seatbelt and motorbike helmet laws, which actually pose less risk to other people than people who want to hang around hospitals and refuse any disease-limiting vaccinations.