TV tax collectors, bailiffs, or these guys?
Ministers are being urged to offer vaccines door to door in hard-to-reach, deprived and minority ethnic communities amid fears that coronavirus could become a disease of poverty.
And if still, no-one takes up the offer? What then?
Speaking to the Guardian, Dr Halima Begum, the chief executive of the Runnymede Trust thinktank, said if people were not able or willing to go to GP surgeries, hospitals or vaccination centres, members of the NHS vaccine army should go to them.
Those 'not able' have plenty of alternative options. There's been quite a lot of requests in my local Facebook groups and newspaper for people to assist those without transport. And GPs are supposed to arrange home visits for the totally non-mobile.
Whoever is reluctant to take the jab, it's not due to inability to get there. It's due to reluctance to have it.
“We would urge the government to take the jab door to door where necessary,” she said.
“Although there are a lot of vaccination centres in inner cities, a lot of elderly and immobile people are simply unable to get there.”
They are catered for, and you know it. It's the unwilling that are the real issue. Do you really think knocking on their door will be the thing that persuades them?
All, that should happen, but of course never will, is to murmur the 'unforgiveable' word; Compulsion.
ReplyDeleteIf we are not all safe, in terms of vaccination, no one will be safe. As a long-time sceptic of vaccinations, based upon the sheer lunacies of the UK Government offering flu vaccines which are targeted at the wrong strain, and an MMR jab which was developed to make ever more cash for Big Pharma; I have always had me' doubts.
But when this killer (at least for the elderly and infirm) was unleashed upon us, I reckon that anything science can provide which gives protection should be taken by all.
I can foresee a lot of issues ahead if they try to mandate it for healthcare staff...
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