Unvaccinated Linden Hospital staff members locked out of compound

– Unvaccinated patients also denied entry

Aug 11, 2021 News, Source - https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...ked-out-of-compound/

Kaieteur News – Nurses, doctors, ancillary, administrative staff and other employees of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), were on Tuesday morning locked out of the compound for failing to produce a COVID-19 Vaccination Card. Similarly, this occurred at the Upper Demerara Hospital, the Kwakwani Hospital and health centres across the Region. Staff members of the Charles Rosa School of Nursing who did not take their COVID-19 vaccine, were also sent home. This is in keeping with the Ministry of Health’s country wide enforcement of the ‘no vaccine, no entry’ policy.

Staff members at LHC were denied entry into the compound.

Employees however remain adamant that it is their human right to choose what goes into their bodies. They argue that it is unconstitutional to force them to make a medical choice, more so when they are not adequately informed on the harmlessness of the vaccine. The frontline workers stress that the vaccines being administered are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO). “We will peacefully picket right here, we not moving, we got to send a strong message, because we not moving, we are nobody’s lab rat and we are nobody’s test tube and we not gon sit down and take what they push down we throat, we want equal rights and justice. If we don’t get equal rights, we gon stand in the same position forever, we need to take our grounds,” one staff member said.

Standing in solidarity with the nurses were representatives from the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU). Industrial Relations Officer of GPSU, Maurice Butters, assured the workers that they are in their rights as long as they report for duty and that the Union will take the necessary legal action, if their employment is further threatened. The GPSU maintains that the vaccine should not be mandatory. “According to the labour law, the Safety and Health Act, you are in your rights, you reported for work, but you are denied entry to work. Even if we have to go to court to ensure that your rights are protected, that is what we plan to do,” Butters said.

Sharing similar sentiments was Regional Chairman, Deron Adams, who said that while he has been an advocate for the vaccination campaign, he does not believe that persons should be forced and that their livelihood should be threatened. “While I support the vaccination exercise against COVID-19, I do not believe the position taken by the administration to make it mandatory. Nurses’ rights are human rights and I believe this is grave human rights violation.”

Adams said the Regional Democratic Council has embarked on an aggressive public relations campaign so that persons can receive credible information, since his engagement with residents shows that they have genuine concerns about the vaccine. “Now you have people who would have recovered from COVID-19 and they are mentioning to me and are still experiencing symptoms. The doctors are saying that when you had COVID-19 and is still exhibiting symptoms, you should take the vaccine, so how can you lock all of these people out. They had a baby that just came here for shortness of breath and he was turned back,” Adams argued.

He blamed the current administration for their failure to not properly educate the masses and clear up their genuine concerns.

“I believe this is as a result of the abysmal failure of the administration to do a robust PR campaign to adequately provide information to the public.

At a time when we should be supporting the efforts of our frontline workers, we have an administration that is locking them out because they want to force a position on them and we cannot support that.”

Meanwhile hire care drivers stood in solidarity with the Healthcare workers and picketed the decision to impose mandatory vaccination on them as well. Driver, Rayon Singh, is calling on the policy makers to carefully consider the situation since protest action is expected to heighten in the Region.

In Region 10 unvaccinated persons cannot enter the Regional Democratic Council, the Guyana Revenue Authority and other Government agencies. Less than 20 percent of residents have been vaccinated.

your ppp could send out their goons in the gpf to shoot them down again like they did in 2012

A line of traffic that formed at the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge as a result of the blockage.

Some of the protestors that gathered at the bridge.

https://www.stabroeknews.com/2...ons-on-unvaccinated/

This is not a virus to joke around with. It can kill with a vengeance.

@Ali Khan Azad posted:

This is not a virus to joke around with. It can kill with a vengeance.

True ,should people be forced to be vaccinated ? to date the vaccines are for emergency use for boosting the immune system against the virus.

@Ali Khan Azad posted:

This is not a virus to joke around with. It can kill with a vengeance.

Did you get your vaccines?

@Django posted:

True ,should people be forced to be vaccinated ? to date the vaccines are for emergency use for boosting the immune system against the virus.

I don’t know about all the states in the US but the state where I live is making it mandatory for all hospital worker to be vaccinated. They are protesting but I think it will be futile...

@Mitwah posted:

Did you get your vaccines?

He gets his injections in Harlem. Swish swish...then he comes back and pines away for his "sovereign nation" for indians only. lol

Guana man and Mits did you two get your vaccines? I got mine Moderna.

Still not approved by FDA. If they know for a fact this vaccine is the cat's meow, it would have been already passed, wouldn't it?

Moderna not approved by the FDA?

Not in the US...it's what they call, emergency approval..not a full approval..which just makes no sense. No or Yes, that's all they need to say.

They are not telling people this when they are vaccinated.

Can they really say the vaccine is safe and be ready to stand up to their word?

@cain, I have both vaccines and I wear my mask and keep my distance. Have my disinfectant in my car. Safety first.

Region 10 doing their best to destabilize, never mind Harmon took the vaccine.  

@lil boy posted:

Region 10 doing their best to destabilize, never mind Harmon took the vaccine.  

People don't have rights any more ?

They take the vaccine, they stand a better chance of being well. They don't, they can get sick and transmit it to others. And the government gets the blame for not doing its job.

@lil boy posted:

They take the vaccine, they stand a better chance of being well.

They don't, they can get sick and transmit it to others.

And the government gets the blame for not doing its job.

Taking the vaccine should be the people choice. Those who have taken the vaccines also transmit the virus .

The problem with Guyana they are using all types of Vaccines which are causing distrust .They have shortage of the second dose of Sputnik-V.

https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/country/guyana/

Those that have taken it stand a better chance of not getting sick, or transmitting it, the science says so. Guyana is trying to streamline the system to have the second dose ready.

     Taking the vaccine is 'people choice' so let them arrive at an airport and don't show proof of taking it, and tell them its their choice.

I don't take shit that we know nothing about. I had small pox and probably Tetanus when I leftl Guyana, since then I must have been juck a couple times with needles. Dem things make Iman sick just looking at it.

I keep my distance, wear my mask even at home when clients or visitors stop by. I played at an outdoor venue, I was at least ten feet away from the closest person, soon as I had a break, on went my mask with added filter.

@lil boy posted:

Those that have taken it stand a better chance of not getting sick, or transmitting it, the science says so.

Guyana is trying to streamline the system to have the second dose ready.

Taking the vaccine is 'people choice' so let them arrive at an airport and don't show proof of taking it, and tell them its their choice.

Which science said vaccinated persons aren't transmitting the virus ?

Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.

"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well," Walensky told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death -- they prevent it. But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission."

That's why the CDC changed its guidance last week and is now recommending even vaccinated people wear masks indoors again, Walensky said.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05...-thursday/index.html

Streamline ? there are shortage of second dose of Sputnik-V.

https://www.trtworld.com/life/...ose-deliveries-48940

If someone have to travel by air ,they have to be vaccinated ,is their choice to travel by air or not.

lilboy , keep abreast with times ,you are a smart fella within the leagues of bigboys.

If you don't want the vaccine, den don't take it. Its a personal choice. Nobody should be forced to take it.

BUT when you fall sick, don't come crying and DO NOT come to the hospital for treatment. Simple.

@cain posted:

Not in the US...it's what they call, emergency approval..not a full approval..which just makes no sense. No or Yes, that's all they need to say.

The reason the Moderna vaccine has not yet been approved by the US is because of commercial reasons. The moderna vaccine is from Germany. the US wants to protect its own manufacturers.

@Bigan Choka posted:

If you don't want the vaccine, den don't take it. Its a personal choice. Nobody should be forced to take it.

BUT when you fall sick, don't come crying and DO NOT come to the hospital for treatment. Simple.

I heard that all dem PNC boyz and gyals in parliament got the vaccine. Volda, Harmon, Grainja et al from the PNC should be there, without the masks. Let them contract the virus. This will guaranty Jagdeo's PPP win at the next election.

@Mr.T posted:

The reason the Moderna vaccine has not yet been approved by the US is because of commercial reasons. The moderna vaccine is from Germany. the US wants to protect its own manufacturers.

Mr T, I believe Moderna is from the US.

Big Pharma is all about money and greed, not about saving lives. My ex once worked with a company here and at one of their meetings the CEO spoke about not driving to work, everyone should travel by public transit when sick...encourage the spreading of flu...brighten the business, great for shareholders.

I don't trust their shit ever.

Moderna is a US pharmaceutical and biotechnology company which has been developing its vaccine at its base in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Source:

Moderna may be superior to Pfizer against Delta; breakthrough odds rise with time

Aug 9 (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19.

Moderna's (MRNA.O) vaccine may be best against Delta

The mRNA vaccine from Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.DE) may be less effective than Moderna's against the Delta variant of the coronavirus, according to two reports posted on medRxiv on Sunday ahead of peer review. In a study of more than 50,000 patients in the Mayo Clinic Health System, researchers found the effectiveness of Moderna's vaccine against infection had dropped to 76% in July - when the Delta variant was predominant - from 86% in early 2021. Over the same period, the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine had fallen to 42% from 76%, researchers said. While both vaccines remain effective at preventing COVID hospitalization, a Moderna booster shot may be necessary soon for anyone who got the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines earlier this year, said Dr. Venky Soundararajan of Massachusetts data analytics company nference, who led the Mayo study.

To read more click here>>>>

@Anand posted:

Which science said vaccinated persons aren't transmitting the virus ?

Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.

"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well," Walensky told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death -- they prevent it. But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission."

That's why the CDC changed its guidance last week and is now recommending even vaccinated people wear masks indoors again, Walensky said.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05...-thursday/index.html

Streamline ? there are shortage of second dose of Sputnik-V.

https://www.trtworld.com/life/...ose-deliveries-48940

If someone have to travel by air ,they have to be vaccinated ,is their choice to travel by air or not.

lilboy , keep abreast with times ,you are a smart fella within the leagues of bigboys.

Glad to know you are abreast. The Variant is spreading like wildfire among the non-vaccinated population, as opposed to those that are vaccinated. Why? Of course it's your choice to take it or not take it, but many people many not want non-vaccinated teachers to be in a classroom with their young children.      

@lil boy posted:

Glad to know you are abreast. The Variant is spreading like wildfire among the non-vaccinated population, as opposed to those that are vaccinated. Why? Of course it's your choice to take it or not take it, but many people many not want non-vaccinated teachers to be in a classroom with their young children.      

My home state is not mandating vaccination.

Just read that NYC has asked its teachers to show proof of vaccination before they can teach.

@lil boy posted:

Just read that NYC has asked its teachers to show proof of vaccination before they can teach.

Every State have their own requirements.

Anyone heard anything about the Russian vaccine? I heard that the Chinese one only works 60 percent.

@Ali Khan Azad posted:

Anyone heard anything about the Russian vaccine? I heard that the Chinese one only works 60 percent.

Like the bombings affected your hearing.

@Mitwah posted:

Like the bombings affected your hearing.

Damage to hearing comes from Prashad screaming in his ear. Can't hear himself think.