The Flu shot revisited

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 9, 2014 at 08:55

Mark wrote

You know what, she can refuse getting a flu shot on religious grounds. If she didn't want a flu shot, she must not have a flu shot. It is a civil right violation

Well I will leave the answer here to a constitutional lawyer .

However, let us say we have a surgeon who says he will not wash his arms and put a gown and mask on before surgery because of his religious beliefs would you allow such surgeon to operate or not? It seems to me that the answer should be he should not operate because he could expose his patients to serious infection

Now change this to the Flu shot. Receiving the Flu shot should be mandatory if you are working with patients because if one does not receive the Flu shot then he/she has a bigger chance of contracting the Flu which he /she can pass on to sick patients

So it seems to me that the answer here is if you do not want the Flu shot then this is a choice you make but if you are dealing with patients and you decline to receive the Flu shot then you have only one choice and that is you cannot work with patients period

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