I am an NHS worker. On Wednesday night I left the Labour party due to its stance on voting in favour of compulsory vaccination for NHS staff, and vaccination passes (MPs back Covid passes in England amid large Tory rebellion, 14 December).
I am fully vaccinated myself, after I debated and weighed up the risks, and I will fight to the death to maintain the right to decide what I put into my body. To threaten people with loss of employment unless they have a vaccination is coercive control, it is abusive, and I don’t understand how it can be legal.
To mandate for one group of employees, who happen to have some of the most stressful and responsible jobs in society, is so obviously wrong and unethical. Yes, mandate for social behaviour, ie regular testing, providing evidence of negative tests, wearing PPE with all patients and vulnerable people, social distancing measures etc. But as a society I thought we subscribed to the right to have control over our bodies.
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