Is this even legal ? Can you actually force someone to get the A(H1N1) vaccine ?

Question

I am a nurse in a major public hospital.

In a recent memo updating concerning the A(H1N1) flu situation, the regional medical agency (who creates policies and applies them to our territory) wrote :

'' Health care workers who refuse to get the A(H1N1) flu vaccine will face consequences, such as being suspended without pay, at the employer's discretion''

They are the official source of info, and generally reliable, but there have been past occasions where they ''tweaked'' the truth trying to intimidate us (usually when the union was negociating our contracts).

I thought that an individual always has the right to auto-determination, choosing the care they receiving, if this person is not disoriented and understands the effects of refusing. But can an outside source ie employer, really bully you for a personal choice ?I think the question of which has priority; individual rights or collective rights was mostly ethical. What about legally ?

(If it helps, I'm in Canada)

Answer 1

im in the uk and on any other website i seen a nhs worker saying that they think the jab will be made compulsive. I have looked in to the jab and i personally will not be taking it.

Surely it is against your human rights to be forced to take a jab that is full of shi*

Answer 2

Massachusettes passed a law giving the governor the right to impose martial law on the state and have police and medical personell go home to home forcing the vaccination on people. Adults who refused would be imprisoned and children would be vaccinated regardless of the parent's wishes. This has recently been suspended pending a Supreme Court decision...but the meere fact that politicians wrote a bill like this and it passed is frightening.



But then on the flip side, isn't the city adding flouride to our water "forced medicating?" Just another way to think about it on a smaller scale where most people don't consider it the same as this...but in actuality, it is very similar.

Answer 3

Vaccinations are mandated all the time for a variety of jobs and school admissions. Tetanus being a prime example.

Odd how you never seem to hear an uproar over those.

Answer 4

in 1976 when they came out with the h5n1 swine flu vaccine.there were 26 deaths and many cases of Gillian barre syndrome.which works on the brain and spine.after 40million doses they stoped due to the deaths and other problems.my mom took a flu shoot and suffered for 5 years.it shut down her internal organs then took her life.type in Gillian barre in your search engine before you take a flu shot.i have never taking a flu shot and never will. iam not a experimental pin cushion for drug manufactures.