All people working in care homes in England are now required to be double-vaccinated, unless they have a medical exemption.
Daniela Bell has worked in a care home with dementia patients for 4 years, but had reservations about taking the vaccine: “I’ve had every single vaccination until this one,” she commented, “but this one I had to think about because it didn’t feel like other vaccines. Other vaccines aren’t mandated, but the Covid vaccine is now mandated. And now I have to think more carefully, since they made this law – and I’m now losing my job over this vaccine.”
Daniela has now lost her job due to the new law, but she is sadly not alone: “There were eight of us who had concerns about it and didn’t want to take the vaccine. I think four of us are now leaving.”
She continued: “I don’t understand the reasons why now I’m considered more dangerous than I was before. Before, none of the staff were vaccinated, or the residents, and we dealt in very hard circumstances with what we knew and how we knew to cope best.”
Find out more:
BBC: Covid jab rule could deepen care home staffing crisis
Christian Today: Should the government compel people to be vaccinated against their conscience?