Coronavirus

[Long slender neck]

Yanks mandating vaccines or weekly tests and masks at work for every employee at a company with over 100 staff or you're sacked

Fair enough that if you arent vaccinated to prove you're not carrying a deadly virus before coming to work imo.

[Currywurst and Chips]

Yanks mandating vaccines or weekly tests and masks at work for every employee at a company with over 100 staff or you're sacked

Employees will not necessarily have to present proof of their vaccination status and will be allowed to sign a statement saying they are vaccinated and that they understand there could be criminal penalties for lying.

https://www.ft.com/content/7d932392-1aa ... 4ca7e6e37c

Not sure that changes much

[jamespevans]

Yanks mandating vaccines or weekly tests and masks at work for every employee at a company with over 100 staff or you're sacked

Employees will not necessarily have to present proof of their vaccination status and will be allowed to sign a statement saying they are vaccinated and that they understand there could be criminal penalties for lying.

https://www.ft.com/content/7d932392-1aa ... 4ca7e6e37c

Not sure that changes much

You're the fact checker extraordinaire on here, just wanted all your fans to get the full context.

[Currywurst and Chips]

Employees will not necessarily have to present proof of their vaccination status and will be allowed to sign a statement saying they are vaccinated and that they understand there could be criminal penalties for lying.

https://www.ft.com/content/7d932392-1aa ... 4ca7e6e37c

Not sure that changes much

You're the fact checker extraordinaire on here, just wanted all your fans to get the full context.

Thanks, adding superfluous information isn't my thing though

But hey, if that's your flex...

[jamespevans]

Not sure that changes much

You're the fact checker extraordinaire on here, just wanted all your fans to get the full context.

Thanks, adding superfluous information isn't my thing though

But hey, if that's your flex...

Tetchy. I'll be fact checking your fact checking from now on!

[Currywurst and Chips]

You're the fact checker extraordinaire on here, just wanted all your fans to get the full context.

Thanks, adding superfluous information isn't my thing though

But hey, if that's your flex...

Tetchy. I'll be fact checking your fact checking from now on!

Flattered actually and only trying to help your boardin'

I see you as the Moyes to my Ferguson

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Yanks mandating vaccines or weekly tests and masks at work for every employee at a company with over 100 staff or you're sacked

Fair enough that if you arent vaccinated to prove you're not carrying a deadly virus before coming to work imo.

I get it in today’s context but it really makes things blurry down the line. What other medical history will be required going forward just to earn a living? Do you expect people carrying HIV to make sure they declare it to their boss? Or someone who missed their TB jab when they were 12? Hpv can be spread and cause someone cervical cancer, should that be declared before a team photo in the pub?

[Long slender neck]

Are those things as contagious as covid?

[Orient Punxx]

Booster vaccine doesn’t/won’t appear on the app!! Why are we so fuc-kin useless!!!???

[Dunners]

Oh yeah, I just checked and mine's not showing. FFS Javid.

[ComeOnYouOs]

I'll be surprised if there isn't a legal challenge along the way somewhere.
NHS workers sign a contract, and if there's nothing about being vaccinated in that contact, I can't see how someone can be sacked for not having vaccines.
It's a very dangerous road the government of this and other countries are taking us down here.
It gives authorities control over us, in a way that had never happened before in democracies.

[Currywurst and Chips]

I'll be surprised if there isn't a legal challenge along the way somewhere.
NHS workers sign a contract, and if there's nothing about being vaccinated in that contact, I can't see how someone can be sacked for not having vaccines.
It's a very dangerous road the government of this and other countries are taking us down here.
It gives authorities control over us, in a way that had never happened before in democracies.

Had your vaccine yet?

[Story of O]

The already under staffed care sector will be hit even harder after midnight when care staff have to be vaccinated or lose their jobs.

[Max B Gold]

The already under staffed care sector will be hit even harder after midnight when care staff have to be vaccinated or lose their jobs.

It's ridiculous that they are working with the most vulnerable without being fully vaccinated.

[StillSpike]

The already under staffed care sector will be hit even harder after midnight when care staff have to be vaccinated or lose their jobs.

It's ridiculous that they are working with the most vulnerable without being fully vaccinated.

The anti-vaxx morons certainly have a lot to answer for.

[Story of O]

The already under staffed care sector will be hit even harder after midnight when care staff have to be vaccinated or lose their jobs.

It's ridiculous that they are working with the most vulnerable without being fully vaccinated.

Maybe, but is this the right way to solve this.

[Long slender neck]

Yes

[Long slender neck]

I'll be surprised if there isn't a legal challenge along the way somewhere.
NHS workers sign a contract, and if there's nothing about being vaccinated in that contact, I can't see how someone can be sacked for not having vaccines.
It's a very dangerous road the government of this and other countries are taking us down here.
It gives authorities control over us, in a way that had never happened before in democracies.

Perhaps there is a bit about taking basic steps with your own health so as not to infect and kill the customers.

[Dunners]

The already under staffed care sector will be hit even harder after midnight when care staff have to be vaccinated or lose their jobs.

It's ridiculous that they are working with the most vulnerable without being fully vaccinated.

Maybe, but is this the right way to solve this.

Yes, it is. The time for pandering to these dimwits is over. It will probably cause problems in the short-term for the sector, but that will sort itself out eventually. It also provides those that are not selfish arseholes an even greater opportunity to unionise and negotiate better terms.

[Currywurst and Chips]

Covid has possibly mutated with HIV to create a new super variant in Botswana

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bots ... 68170.html

[Dunners]

Covid has possibly mutated with HIV to create a new super variant in Botswana

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bots ... 68170.html

FFS.

And the message board had been a place of such whimsical and high-spirited optimism so far today before you came along with this negativity.

[Currywurst and Chips]

Covid has possibly mutated with HIV to create a new super variant in Botswana

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bots ... 68170.html

FFS.

And the message board had been a place of such whimsical and high-spirited optimism so far today before you came along with this negativity.

Just need one of the channel migrants to test positive for the new variant and we'll come full circle

[Dunners]

I've now spent most of the afternoon so far reading up on B.1.1.529 instead of boarding or working, FFS.

The good news is that variants pop up all the time but then sink back down into obscurity. Hopefully this will be one of those. Because the bad news is, if it doesn't, this could be even more transmissible than Delta and evade both vaccine and natural immunity. And the early signs are not good.

[Max B Gold]

I've now spent most of the afternoon so far reading up on B.1.1.529 instead of boarding or working, FFS.

The good news is that variants pop up all the time but then sink back down into obscurity. Hopefully this will be one of those. Because the bad news is, if it doesn't, this could be even more transmissible than Delta and evade both vaccine and natural immunity. And the early signs are not good.

This is very bad news. I was just getting used to the over 4,000 monthly deaths we have at present.

[Dunners]

FFS. F*ck off Covid.