{"id":54715,"date":"2021-03-03T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54715"},"modified":"2021-03-03T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:22:18","slug":"french-healthcare-workers-rebel-against-covid-vaccine-en-masse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54715","title":{"rendered":"French Healthcare Workers Rebel Against Covid Vaccine En Masse"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Complete Loss Of Trust”: Half Of French Home Health Workers Say They’ll Resist Taking Vaccine<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Zerohedge.com<\/p>\n

Astounding new figures out of France suggest what is no doubt a broader global trend of hesitancy and skepticism when it comes to the current big push to ‘vaccinate all’.<\/p>\n

Reuters in covering the country’s vaccine rollout finds that merely around\u00a0“half of health workers in French care homes do not want to be vaccinated”<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 even after many of these routinely witness the ravages of COVID-19 on the elderly and infirm.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a complete loss of trust,”<\/strong>\u00a0one home health care worker and trade union representative was cited in the report as\u00a0saying<\/a>, reflecting resistance to the growing pressure put on often underpaid staff in difficult working conditions who are being ordered to get vaccinated lest they risk the safety of the elderly patients. And another reflected a common answer of “I\u2019m going to wait a bit”.<\/p>\n

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The intense skepticism and pushback stems from the fact that it’s both the government that’s reportedly underpaying them, while also demanding they get the jab.<\/p>\n

Reuters presents a common refrain among the frontline\u00a0care-givers as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Marie-France Boudret, who works in a French home for the elderly,\u00a0watched a patient suffocate to death in front of her because COVID-19 had infected his lungs<\/strong>. But when her employer offered her a vaccine against the virus,\u00a0the nurse hesitated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“I have some doubts,”<\/strong>\u00a0said Boudret, 48. “I prefer to wait.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The trend is also being observed across Europe, raising deep concerns among health officials that the elderly population remains at great risk to the degree that large portions of health workers refuse or at least delay the jab.<\/p>\n

The report offers as nearby examples Germany and Switzerland, where resistance to the vaccine among home healthcare staff could be even greater than in France. “In Germany, care home operator BeneVit Group surveyed staff in November and found\u00a0only 30%<\/strong>\u00a0wanted to get vaccinated,” writes Reuters.<\/p>\n

Over the past year France has struggled to contain a series deadly coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes and elderly care facilities, akin to similar tragedies in New York and other places in the US:<\/em><\/p>\n