. . . and the handful with reasons to disagree

I RESIGNED as an NHS phlebotomist – drawing blood from patients – this month. How dare anyone else make a decision about what we NHS staff put in our bodies? Many of us have had Covid anyway. My symptoms were so mild that I went to work with it before tests were widely available. Don’t push vaccines on people who don’t need them.

Verity Cheshire

PEOPLE have had three jabs in 12 months but are still not protected, so why put people’s jobs in jeopardy because they won’t have a vaccine that doesn’t work as well as others do?

Alison Watson

I’M DISTURBED by the mandate to force NHS staff to have the jab. My husband developed inflammation of the spinal cord after having a ‘safe’ vaccination. He is now paralysed from the waist down. As a social care worker, I face losing my job as I don’t want the jab. Incidentally, I’ve had all other vaccinations throughout my life, as has my husband and my children.

Karen Blavins

IF THE vaccine is safe and everyone should have one, then why did my mother-in-law end up in hospital with GuillainBarre syndrome after her jab?

I, along with four others I know, were diagnosed with polymyalgia soon after vaccination. People should have a choice whether or not to take the vaccine, and be made aware of potential problems.

Liz Dorey

COVID is not the only horrible way to die. My father died from a rare side effect of the flu jab – an extreme form of the immune condition I have. It took five months for the medical profession to tell me it could not guarantee I wouldn’t suffer the same fate as my father.

Linda McWilliam

I DON’T understand why staff can’t be tested regularly if they won’t take the vaccine. I would rather be cared for by someone I know has tested negative than by someone who is vaccinated and can still catch the virus and pass it on. And I’m no anti-vaxxer – I’m 66 years old and vaccinated. Christine Harrison