CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

Here ya go:  Fewer than than 0.1% of NSW health staff have quit due to Covid vaccination mandates, The Guardian.

Only 136 quit rather than vaccinate. The Liberal Government is crowing that the mayhem predicted by the Labor opposition didn't come to pass.

But according to Brett Holmes, the general secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association, opposition to mandates among staff have been overblown. Holmes said that while a small number of his members had resigned after the mandate, feedback suggested many of those were leaving the industry because of what he called “pandemic fatigue”.

But Holmes is concerned about staff shortages. In northern NSW, often held up as a stronghold of vaccine hesitancy, he said shortages had been a problem long before the pandemic.

So it's hard to be exact when it comes to the effect of the vaccine mandate. Some who have quit didn't do so because of the vaccine mandate, but the article also points out that others may be stood down for failing to vaccinate and may quit later.  But it doesn't seem that the feared backlash has occurred.

Final submissions were heard in the NSW Supreme Court cases of Al-Munir Kassam v Bradley Ronald Hazzard & Natasha Henry v Brad Hazzard last Wednesday, so that decision should be handed down reasonably soon.