Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A debate appears to be raging in the UK medical community over whether the severity of some long-term side effects of the Covid vaccine undermines the case of mandatory vaccination of medical staff. The following is a letter published in the British Medical Journal by Dr. Katya Polyakova, Medical Director of Partnerships in Care, Kent.
Dear editor
I have had more vaccines in my life than most people and have come from a location with significant personal and professional experience regarding this pandemic, having led a service during the first two waves and all related contingencies.
Still, I am currently struggling not to report the reality of the morbidity caused by our current vaccination program in health care and workforce. The level of sickness after vaccination is unprecedented and employees get very sick and some have neurological symptoms that have a huge impact on health care functioning. Even the young and healthy are for days, some for weeks, and some require medical treatment. Whole teams are taken out to be vaccinated together.
Mandatory vaccination in this case is stupid, unethical and irresponsible when it comes to protecting our employees and public health. We are in the voluntary phase of vaccination and we encourage employees to ingest an unlicensed product that has an impact on their immediate health. I have direct experience with employees who become infected with Covid after vaccination and are likely to transmit it. In fact, it is clearly stated that these vaccines do not offer immunity or stop transmission. In which case do we do this? No longitudinal safety data (at best a few months of test data) are available and These products are only subject to an emergency license. What does it mean that there are no adverse longitudinal effects that could endanger the entire health sector?
The flu is a massive annual killer, it floods the health system, it kills the young, the old the comorbid, and yet people can decide whether or not to have this vaccine (which has been around for a long time). And you can list a whole host of other examples of vaccines that are not mandatory but still protect against diseases of higher consequence.
Coercion and medical treatment in our employees, especially members of the public If the treatments are still in the experimental phase, they are firmly in the realm of a totalitarian Nazi dystopia and fall well outside of our ethical values as guardians of health.
Me and my whole family had COVID. So do most of my friends, relatives and colleagues. I recently lost a relatively young family member with comorbidities from heart failure due to the pneumonia caused by Covid. Even so, I would never humiliate myself and agree that we should abandon our liberal principles and international attitudes towards physical sovereignty, free informed choice and human rights and support an unprecedented compulsion by professionals, patients and people to conduct experimental treatments with limited safety data. This and the associated measures pose a greater danger to our society than anything else we have faced in the past year.
What happened to “my body my choice”? What happened to the scientific and open debate? If I don’t prescribe an antibiotic to a patient who doesn’t need it because they are healthy, am I an antibiotic? Or an antibiotic denier? Isn’t it time people really thought about what’s happening to us and where it’s all leading us?
Source: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n810/rr-14
Katya wrote the letter in response to an article published in the BMJ calling for a unified front to support vaccination.
I have no idea how extensive the medical opposition to mass vaccination against Covid is. There is obvious pressure to accept the vaccine in the name of social responsibility. But there also seem to be voices that speak out against the vaccine. The obvious concern is that side effects may not be adequately reported. On the other hand, the outspoken doctors may have misjudged the risks. Or they could be whistleblowers trying to warn everyone that there is a problem.
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