Dear Editor:
RE: Six area hospital staff terminated for not getting COVID-19 vaccine, Nov. 18.
How can we be so reckless and careless with the lives of others because the behaviour we demand is not performed? No one is discussing how the lives of these people are being affected. How will they feed their children, keep a roof over their heads, pay for medicine or dental costs? How will we prevent these terminated individuals from sliding into severe mental illnesses, drug addiction or criminal behaviour for income”
Angela Stanley et al, should be able to come up with better solutions in management than to terminate individuals who are still entitled to free choice by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is her failing and not that of the individuals who choose not to be vaccinated.
The only people who need be concerned about the unvaccinated, are those who are unvaccinated – and no one else.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests 99.9% of people who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 did not have a severe breakthrough case that led to hospitalization.
New data suggests 1,507 people (about 0.0001%) of those fully vaccinated people died from COVID-19. and 7,101 people of those fully vaccinated people (about 0.005%) were hospitalized from COVID-19.”
Why is any vaccinated individual worried about someone else being vaccinated or not? Our authorities need to seek and publish these facts because the consequences of termination are too dire to allow a raucous demand of “off with their heads” from the general public to dictate employment policy.
Societal invalidation (which occurs when you lose your job) is bleak and ugly. The ultimate consequences of this are dire. Individuals will have mental breakdowns and the possibility of suicides is attenuated. Isn’t that enough to give pause to any policy that recklessly and carelessly tells an employee to “bugger off”?
We should apply common sense rather than exercising authority for the sake of exercising authority.
I am fearful for these disenfranchised individuals. It is arrogant, particularly without knowing their circumstances, to say “oh, they can fix it by getting the shot.” If that is to what we have descended, then society has become truly ugly and the least of our worries is whether or not a person is vaccinated.
Joy Lippai,
Arthur