It’s coming from inside the hospital
The introduction of concentration camps into an argument is a sure sign the speaker is all out of reasonable arguments and the discussion is headed seriously downhill.
So this quote in a newspaper about the mandatory vaccination of health-workers probably shouldn’t be graced with a response, but having had seriously ill children in hospital, I can’t help myself.
“These are the sorts of [immunisation] tactics you would expect in concentration camps, not the sort of tactics you would expect in the Australian Health Care system”, said the president of the Australian Vaccination Network about a NSW Health policy that requires health workers to be immunised before they have contact with patients.
For those who don’t know, the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN), quoted high up in the newspaper story as if an expert medical organisation, is against immunisation, or in their own words believe “governments all over the world have abridged or denied the right to free choice when it comes to vaccinations and immunisations for our children or ourselves”.
I’ve spoken to some of their members on the phone in the past, and like many zealots, they’re well-intentioned but unfortunately firmly believe they’re doing the right thing by saving children from dangerous doctors and vaccinations.
Pictured alongside the newspaper article are a brother and sister who the journalist says are “paying the price of not being immunised”.
Andrew, 25, has had to drop out of a nursing degree and Esther, 19, has had to transfer from nursing to naturopathy.
Bravo, I say, unless they can prove natural immunity to all relevant diseases.
It’s a disgrace that NSW Health didn’t have this policy in place before, and I’d be interested to hear about the policies of other states.
Why on earth should the government allow patients in our hospitals to be treated by staff who might give them diseases such as pertussis, incidentally misspelt on the AVN site?
Further, I can’t see why this pair’s non-immunised parents should be allowed to work as nurses in private nursing homes among the vulnerable elderly.
Andrew claims the policy “takes away any choice I had”. Sorry Andrew, but no it doesn’t, it takes away your choice to work closely with sick people. And so it should.
So this quote in a newspaper about the mandatory vaccination of health-workers probably shouldn’t be graced with a response, but having had seriously ill children in hospital, I can’t help myself.
“These are the sorts of [immunisation] tactics you would expect in concentration camps, not the sort of tactics you would expect in the Australian Health Care system”, said the president of the Australian Vaccination Network about a NSW Health policy that requires health workers to be immunised before they have contact with patients.
For those who don’t know, the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN), quoted high up in the newspaper story as if an expert medical organisation, is against immunisation, or in their own words believe “governments all over the world have abridged or denied the right to free choice when it comes to vaccinations and immunisations for our children or ourselves”.
I’ve spoken to some of their members on the phone in the past, and like many zealots, they’re well-intentioned but unfortunately firmly believe they’re doing the right thing by saving children from dangerous doctors and vaccinations.
Pictured alongside the newspaper article are a brother and sister who the journalist says are “paying the price of not being immunised”.
Andrew, 25, has had to drop out of a nursing degree and Esther, 19, has had to transfer from nursing to naturopathy.
Bravo, I say, unless they can prove natural immunity to all relevant diseases.
It’s a disgrace that NSW Health didn’t have this policy in place before, and I’d be interested to hear about the policies of other states.
Why on earth should the government allow patients in our hospitals to be treated by staff who might give them diseases such as pertussis, incidentally misspelt on the AVN site?
Further, I can’t see why this pair’s non-immunised parents should be allowed to work as nurses in private nursing homes among the vulnerable elderly.
Andrew claims the policy “takes away any choice I had”. Sorry Andrew, but no it doesn’t, it takes away your choice to work closely with sick people. And so it should.
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