2021-11-11
In the UK the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is mandating the jabs for front-line workers in both care homes and in the NHS (although the NHS have a reprieve until 2nd quarter 2022).
In the USA the Biden administration is similarly attempting to mandate healthcare workers to take the jabs.
In both cases this is being done through pressuring the employers to enforce the rule, which brings employment law into play, in addition to the healthcare arguments over just how infection is supposed to spread (whether by workers and/or by patients), what efficacy the vaccines actually confer, and whether those who have achieved natural immunity should be compelled to also take the jab. And so on. Everybody insisting (that word again) that they are right and everybody else is wrong.
Now mix in the human rights aspects (Nuremberg code, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Helsinki (download), etc) and the mix becomes a legal minefield that will take for ever to disentangle.
Meanwhile in the USA ten states are lawyering up to confront the Biden mandate.
Also the evidence that the jabs have little to no effect on transmission rates is piling up.
Even our own UKHSA publishes figures that indicate much the same, or possibly worse.
So what is the point of vaccination? I only ask because I'd like to know.
