QF mandates Vaccine
Come on people, what you feel about the vaccine doesn’t matter. If you work for an airline that mandates the vaccine you can discuss the positives of the vaccine during a nice long cruise. If you don’t get the vaccine you can discuss the negatives of the vaccine in your local cafe whilst searching for another job. It is that simple.
If you work for an airline that mandates the vaccine you can discuss the positives of the vaccine during a nice long cruise. If you don’t get the vaccine you can discuss the negatives of the vaccine in your local cafe whilst searching for another job. It is that simple.
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If we identify a threat, such as catching and spreading Covid that falls in the High to Extreme corner of the risk/severity matrix the procedure is to eliminate or isolate the hazard. Otherwise the employer is up for some hefty fines, quite rightly.
You can google the hazard matrix and the hierarchy of hazard control that we have to go by.
As for medications, yes we can say that if you turn up to work drunk or under the influence of something else you are immediately removed from "safety Sensitive Aviation Activities" and then follow the drug and alcohol management plan.
Since when has your employer been the arbiter of what medical procedures/medications you get to take? There are also people who are getting medical advice not to have the vaccination so where does it leave them? How can you hold a Class 1 medical and get fired on medical grounds?
What's the next crazy social experiment you want everyone to participate in??
What's the next crazy social experiment you want everyone to participate in??
they always have, when I flew long haul from the UK part of being on the Longhaul fleet was you had to agree to maintaining VISA’s and VACCINES as directed. I would have lost my job if Inhad refused to be jabbed or if I got a conviction that prevented me gaining a USA Visa. It is not new Neville, Airlines have always been able to do it and always will.
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Since when has your employer been the arbiter of what medical procedures/medications you get to take? There are also people who are getting medical advice not to have the vaccination so where does it leave them? How can you hold a Class 1 medical and get fired on medical grounds?
What's the next crazy social experiment you want everyone to participate in??
What's the next crazy social experiment you want everyone to participate in??
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they always have, when I flew long haul from the UK part of being on the Longhaul fleet was you had to agree to maintaining VISA’s and VACCINES as directed. I would have lost my job if I had refused to be jabbed or if I got a conviction that prevented me gaining a USA Visa. It is not new Neville, Airlines have always been able to do it and always will.
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I can tell you the business community is back peddling on this issue already. Policing it a hundred different ways within different companies and states isn't going to work. Unless the government mandates it, it's not going to happen in anyway more than a request. No-one is expending resources on something that is not required.
If we identify a threat, such as catching and spreading Covid that falls in the High to Extreme corner of the risk/severity matrix the procedure is to eliminate or isolate the hazard.
Do international crews get mandated to receive Hepatitis vaccines? Tetanus? Malaria tablets?
All of these are killers.
Unless the aircraft is full of old hypodermic needles, rusty nails and mosquitos then they are not going to pass those diseases on to other people.
Read it again…International crews, they overnight in countries with all those diseases and more, go out for dinner, drinking and sex. So should they have always had mandatory vaccines? Why is C19 different with a 98% survival rate?
The survival rate is because of vaccines and more importantly the Doctors and Nurses working their guts out trying to keep idiots that won’t get a vaccination alive. The selfishness of these people is simply galling. I know Drs that work in ICU COVID wards and the stories they tell are quite frankly gut wrenching and extremely sad. Can I get the vaccine? Will it make me better? Please help? Not one patient has ever said no thanks when certain highly specialised drugs are suggested. Not one.
Isn’t it amazing how one’s mind is suddenly very focused as death closes in on you. Imagine saying to a person literally struggling to breath on a ventilator that this is your last chance. Would you like a zoom with your family to say goodbye?
Back to the thread title. I along with 99% of Qantas staff applaud the mandatory vaccination policy. We haven’t done the hard yards for the last 18 months to have all this traction undone by the looney few.
If you don’t want to get vaccinated that’s your choice. But don’t come to work. Don’t dare set foot in a flight deck and don’t you dare set foot in a hospital when you get COVID. The science is overwhelming. Vaccines work. No one gives a fu*k about your stupid Facebook derived theories.
Me, I’m going flying with my mates around the World. What will you be doing?
Sex? Must have missed that night.
The survival rate is because of vaccines and more importantly the Doctors and Nurses working their guts out trying to keep idiots that won’t get a vaccination alive. The selfishness of these people is simply galling. I know Drs that work in ICU COVID wards and the stories they tell are quite frankly gut wrenching and extremely sad. Can I get the vaccine? Will it make me better? Please help? Not one patient has ever said no thanks when certain highly specialised drugs are suggested. Not one.
Isn’t it amazing how one’s mind is suddenly very focused as death closes in on you. Imagine saying to a person literally struggling to breath on a ventilator that this is your last chance. Would you like a zoom with your family to say goodbye?
The survival rate is because of vaccines and more importantly the Doctors and Nurses working their guts out trying to keep idiots that won’t get a vaccination alive. The selfishness of these people is simply galling. I know Drs that work in ICU COVID wards and the stories they tell are quite frankly gut wrenching and extremely sad. Can I get the vaccine? Will it make me better? Please help? Not one patient has ever said no thanks when certain highly specialised drugs are suggested. Not one.
Isn’t it amazing how one’s mind is suddenly very focused as death closes in on you. Imagine saying to a person literally struggling to breath on a ventilator that this is your last chance. Would you like a zoom with your family to say goodbye?
Back to the thread title. I along with 99% of Qantas staff applaud the mandatory vaccination policy. We haven’t done the hard yards for the last 18 months to have all this traction undone by the looney few.
If you don’t want to get vaccinated that’s your choice. But don’t come to work. Don’t dare set foot in a flight deck and don’t you dare set foot in a hospital when you get COVID. The science is overwhelming. Vaccines work. No one gives a fu*k about your stupid Facebook derived theories.
Me, I’m going flying with my mates around the World. What will you be doing?
If you don’t want to get vaccinated that’s your choice. But don’t come to work. Don’t dare set foot in a flight deck and don’t you dare set foot in a hospital when you get COVID. The science is overwhelming. Vaccines work. No one gives a fu*k about your stupid Facebook derived theories.
Me, I’m going flying with my mates around the World. What will you be doing?
Would I be happy with them flying one engine out in a gusty crosswind? Absolutely. Did their CPL or ATPL come with a medical degree attached? Not even close - they are at the level of they don't even know what they don't know. The doctors and medical researchers will look at them in the same way as you or I look at those unfortunate Afghans clinging to the side of the C-17s departing Kabul with a smile on their face - they're smiling, happy and confident explaining this narrative about vaccines and the New World Order based on their Facebook videos, as the Afghans were sitting on the undercarriage structure of a cargo aircraft rolling down the runway, because they lack even the basic understanding of how wrong they are and what could actually happen. The most insidious or effective part of the whole problem has been that a big part of the conspiracy theory is that all the mainstream medical researchers and media are in on it, so any reputable sources that could inform them otherwise are automatically viewed as corrupt and the conspiracy narrative is reinforced.
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Sure but that doesn't make them antivaxers or unwilling to be vaccinated when the evidence says it's unwise not to be. I'll take a guess and say there would be no more than 10 total, not necessarily pilots and excluding those with medical conditions. That's an awful lot of fuss for 10 people.
