This is a great initiative. While double-vaccinated I am deeply uncomfortable with coercion to comply and this presents a "middle ground" solution:
“Vaccine OR Testing” Campaign Launched
A
family advocate and an educational leader (also a registered nurse with
a PhD in aged
care) are making a joint application to get a rapid COVID test
authorised in New Zealand so that thousands of kiwis don’t lose their
jobs on the 16th November under the Government’s proposed ‘no jab no job’ mandate.
A joint application has been made to import, distribute
and use The Sienna Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test on behalf of workplaces, community groups, places of faith,
and families who have workers or family members who with good conscience do not want to take the vaccine.
The rapid antigen test has been
approved
by the FDA.
It is a self-contained
Naso-pharyngeal test, needing no machine, is up to 99% accurate, takes
10 minutes to get the result, and affordable for those who don’t want to
take the vaccine.
It will be the obligation of those not jabbed to provide
proof of regular testing. This alternative approach will – as the FDA
recently said - help meet the public
health needs as we respond to COVID.
While both applicants have chosen to be double-jabbed
and support the vaccination programme, they are justifiably concerned that New Zealanders may be excluded from their
teaching
or nursing
job, or sporting
career, or
going
to their marae, going to
church
or the mosque or the
gym
or hair salon,
university
to study,
weddings,
visiting
family members in prison,
attending
events – and there are many other
examples – because they have chosen out of good
conscience not to be vaccinated.
We are looking for a reasonable and workable middle
ground that doesn’t divide the country and set
family members against each other.
A
divided society with a ‘no jab no job’ mandate does
not sit well with many New Zealanders – even those who support the
vaccine programme. Unfortunately, under the current proposal by the
Government, thousands and thousands of kiwis are going to lose their
jobs in the next couple of weeks. It’s just not the
kiwi way.
With new
developments
on treatments, the approach
to COVID is constantly evolving. We need a cautious approach - but also
flexibility as we learn more about the disease and treatment.
We have received support from teachers, education leaders,
medical professionals, politicians, and church leaders from a number of faiths for this middle-ground approach.
An accompanying
petition“Don’t
Divide Us.nz” has also been launched – “We
oppose the ‘no jab no job’ policy,
which will create a divided New Zealand. We call on the Government to
allow the use of COVID rapid antigen testing as an alternative for
unvaccinated kiwis to access workplaces, schools, maraes, large
gatherings, and places of worship.”
We call for an approach to COVID that targets the disease
without dividing the country.
ENDS
For More Information and Media Interviews, contact:
Dr Christine Clark
Mob. 027 499 0142
Bob McCoskrie
3 comments:
I appreciate her concern, but "It will be the obligation of those not jabbed to provide proof of regular testing" still creates two classes of citizens.
Having to be tested every single time for a disease that the vaccinated can also contract and transmit is still unjustified and discriminatory.
Let alone the feeding to their narrative "the new cases are all unvaxxed" (since they are the ones being tested all the time).
Thanks, but no thanks.
Finally, a glimpse of sanity.
I agree with GH. The facts around transmission are undeniable, and in fact vaccinees are more transmissive.
We do ourselves no favors with the mandates. All NZ needs to do is look at the desperate hospitals in NYC sending recruitment offers to anyone who applied in the last decade in a futile attempt to shore up staffing. One NYC hospital declared that they would no longer be assisting with child birth due to unworkable shortage. Another hospital in Canada say they will only be taking Emergency visits between 8am-3pm due to inability to cope with more.
Let's not do this.
I am double vacinnated but will refuse to get a vaccine passport for domestic use. Any business that demands that will just lose my business, maybe for a long time as I won't forget this when this "temporary" requirement is finished.
As a business I have decided not to impose that requirement even if that causes me a financial loss by the restrictions on capacity.So far the customers I have talked to support my decision as they do not want their friends and relatives to be turned away.
For international travel I am resigned to needing a vaccine passport to be able to fly. This is no different to when I used to have my yellow fever certificate for travel to certain countries. Of course the vaccine was valid for 10 years from memory. No one had said what the practical limitations are when you get to another country.
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