I never said we would get to 99.5% vaccinated at James Cook, again, another straw man argument, I've explained this three times now. There will be plenty off sick, have legitimate medical reasons, those who are not in patient facing roles or those who will go to no none patient facing roles, all of which I'm fine with. The 99.5% is those who chose vaccines, those who are not going to "get fired" or those who don't leave for vaccine reasons (I'm sure others will leave for other reasons). My issue is those who have no medical reason not to, who don't seem to understand the risk benefit.
Ok, get your point on the TEWS, but it won't include those working with the most at risk (of Covid) patients, or those working with covid patients, who I would expect to have a much higher rate of vaccination.
You were using old data, to be honest I thought I picked a recent article (guess not), but the unvaxxed numbers tied in with the most recent numbers, I don't think it was made up (would like to see what the dataset was).
We might have only 5% (now), unvaxed, which is great/ getting there, it will go higher and probably top out around 98% I reckon (up here at least), before April, then what's left is mainly those that have good reason. I just don't see 1 in 200 nurses choosing to leave a profession for something which would improve patient care, but if they do, that's up to them. I'd say it would be a poor choice, as would the vast majority of nurses which made the right choice without needing a kick up the backside. Every nurse/ doctor I know is in no way against the proposals. Ther line of thought is they should be choosing it anyway, it shouldn't have got this far (or get this far in April, if it does).
The NHS is screwed, totally agree with that, not denying it isn't, it's been badly ran/ funded for at least a decade, but putting patients at increased undue risk is a separate argument.
No, I'm not saying James cook will be ok, none of them will be ok, none of them are ok, and none of them were before this, and not much will change (numbers wise) in any of them as a result of this. I quoted the percentage based on James cook, or comment on James cook as that's local, and that's where loads of my mates work.
Voting Tory, not against Tories or voting for brexit will do far more damage to the NHS than this, by a country mile.