The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that the province’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers was justified, based on the significant risk posed by the virus when the province’s mandate was renewed in October 2023.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry had first imposed the orders on all workers in B.C. health-care settings in October 2021. The order was renewed in 2022 and 2023, and remains in place across B.C.

According to a judgment posted Monday, around 1,800 workers lost their jobs for being unvaccinated contrary to the mandate.

Some of those workers — which included nurse practitioners, surgeons, psychiatrists and administrators — filed separate lawsuits against the province, which were all collectively heard by Justice Simon Coval.

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    Good. These are health workers, interacting with a vulnerable population.

    If you don’t want to protect people, don’t work in healthcare

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldOP
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      “I want to work with sick people, but I also want to infect people as well.”

      This is one of the most infectious diseases in 100 years, but yeah lets not have healthcare workers vaccinated against it. Jesus.

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    The fanatical cult must be protected and upheld.

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      You’re new with the concept of responsibilities, aren’t you? It’s a very Canadian thing, so try to learn.

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        Even though covid is your latest pagan religion, you would never question anyone who says soothing words that satisfy your emotions and feelings, words that feed your ego, but how do you identify the mass amounts of the population that forever have permanent damage from injections?

        Have to researched the autoposy reports from morticians that state individuals died solely and exclusively from the injections, and would still be alive if they never got a sigle injection?

        Why is it better to let patients die in hospitals due to being short staffed than to hire back the 10,000 hospital staff who never got injected and fill up all the hospital staff vacancies?

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          Even though covid is your latest pagan religion

          Sorry for language, but its about the most sincinct way i could put it.