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The Daily PollJUST 32% OF Irish nurses received the flu vaccine last year, new figures revealed this morning.
HSE Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan warned that staff who are not vaccinated represent a risk to patients as they can spread flu and when they become ill they will be absent from the workforce, often at a time when they are most needed.
Despite various HSE campaigns, just one in three nurses got the immunisation last year. The number for nursing staff in 2016 was even lower at 26.4%.
So, this morning we want to know: Should it be mandatory for health professionals to get the flu jab?
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Long overdue. Europe needs to stand with oppressed people around the world. Democracy and fundamental civil rights are the only way forward for humanity
Religion the cause of oppression and wars since time began,
@Paul Crowley: I’m an atheist but can see that Religions themselves can be a great cornerstone for morality and guidance for communities and nations. Many people use them peacefully as a way to live their life with love and respect for their fellow man.
The Problem is that they have been weaponised by power hungry despots the world over to strip people of their rights and belongings for centuries.
@Paul Crowley: the separation of church and state is essential and should be carefully protected,the demonising of individual belief systems however is just a sure way to cause division.
@Paolo Fandango: The fundamental problem with most religions is that they are a means by which men can force people (and especially women) to live their lives the way they think they should be lived.
This is how you end up in mad situation where the answer to men’s weakness and jealousy is to force women to cover up everything that causes the weakness and jealousy i.e it’s women’s fault and problem, not men’s.
And before Christians get too sanctimonious it’s not that long since Irish women had to wear ankle length dresses and headscarves to cover up all the tempting bits.
@Stanley Marsh: well spotted. Ireland in the decades after independence wasn’t far off what Iran is today. The only difference is we shoveled our women and children into institutions
@Paul Crowley: Yes one religion is still centuries behind the civilized world in the west . In fact its going backwards not forward
America has its Evangelicals and Afghanistan has its Taliban.
@andrew: I don’t think Evangelicals behead who they seem to have sinned or stone women to death for being in their view promiscuous, among other benign “sins”?
@catinthehat: Only because US laws won’t allow it.
@Stanley Marsh: the US still executes people though
@Stanley Marsh: that’s why the absolute separation of church and state is so vital. Ireland is still slowly crawling out from under the Catholic church
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