Couldn’t agree with you more Rob and I’m delighted to hear about your son’s excellent health. Thank you too for subscribing which is much appreciated. I know of many care workers, family members and friends who felt forced to be jabbed and many regret having it. Thanks too for sharing the link to Tom’s story which is a nightmare indeed and I’m so glad you weren’t pressurised. I was a mental health officer when I worked in a local authority so I’ve had a keen interest in it and followed it closely. I’m very familiar with this type of legal process which was unbelievably inappropriate and failed to protect Tom on every level. It should never have been pursued for multiple reasons but practically it would never have been possible to forcibly vaccinate him without torturing him and they must have known this from the start.
Yes, its funny, my son will and does inject himself with insulin 4x daily but loathes being jabbed by clinical people he doesn't know - its a classic white coat syndrome. He is fiercely independent and a great guy to go sailing or hiking with.
Anyways, we felt forced to go down the formal Legal Guardianship route, here in Scotland - it took three years to complete and is a fecking nightmare in itself, but what else can we do? But judging by the Scottish Inquiry, all such legal safeguards including POA appear to have been dumped in the bin anyway. I think we just survived a breakdown in law and order and a witch-hunt, and the consequences in terms of massive damage to families, communities, and carers are going to resonate for decades . There has been a total breakdown of trust in social care, the NHS, the law, and any kind of safeguards to the individual. Its a catastrophe.
Good article, to which I think we must add the appalling stress placed on care home and nursing staff who were forced to choose between the 'vaccine' and their job. I employ five care and support workers directly, using a direct payment from my local authority to support my son in his own home, and two of them at least were care workers who refused the jab. (Just as we did - my son is also unvaxxed, because he hates needles and being injected). By the way, my son has Downs Syndrome and two serious underlying but well-medicated autoimmune diseases requiring daily medication , and he is fit and healthy - he absolutely rocked Covid with minimal discomfort and is strong as a horse.
This is a really thoughtful reflection and I think much nearer the mark than many of the published articles about moral injury, which for me always seem to skirt around the more unpalatable aspects underlying this phenomenon. I had not come across the term moral injury until 2020. I think a related concept is moral blindness. What differentiates moral injury from guilt?
I'm not sure about the BMJ authors suggestion that moral injury arises in part from healthcare workers sacrificing their/their own loved ones needs/preferences for those of strangers/wider society. This certainly would generate complex feelings, but not all negative.
I wondered if moral injury might partly explain why some vocal healthcare workers on social media appeared to project their anger by blaming various real or imagined categories of dangerous 'other' (lockdown skeptics, anti-maskers, covidiots, anti-vaxxers, fringe scientists) for the perpetuation of the pandemic. The longer the harmful policies were enacted, the more difficult it was to justify them even to themselves, but no-one had the courage to stop doing the things they believed had kept people safe.
You summarise the crux of the issue well with the sentence 'a morally injured workforce is evidence that the response to covid-19 was morally wrong.'
Couldn’t agree with you more Rob and I’m delighted to hear about your son’s excellent health. Thank you too for subscribing which is much appreciated. I know of many care workers, family members and friends who felt forced to be jabbed and many regret having it. Thanks too for sharing the link to Tom’s story which is a nightmare indeed and I’m so glad you weren’t pressurised. I was a mental health officer when I worked in a local authority so I’ve had a keen interest in it and followed it closely. I’m very familiar with this type of legal process which was unbelievably inappropriate and failed to protect Tom on every level. It should never have been pursued for multiple reasons but practically it would never have been possible to forcibly vaccinate him without torturing him and they must have known this from the start.
Yes, its funny, my son will and does inject himself with insulin 4x daily but loathes being jabbed by clinical people he doesn't know - its a classic white coat syndrome. He is fiercely independent and a great guy to go sailing or hiking with.
Anyways, we felt forced to go down the formal Legal Guardianship route, here in Scotland - it took three years to complete and is a fecking nightmare in itself, but what else can we do? But judging by the Scottish Inquiry, all such legal safeguards including POA appear to have been dumped in the bin anyway. I think we just survived a breakdown in law and order and a witch-hunt, and the consequences in terms of massive damage to families, communities, and carers are going to resonate for decades . There has been a total breakdown of trust in social care, the NHS, the law, and any kind of safeguards to the individual. Its a catastrophe.
Good article, to which I think we must add the appalling stress placed on care home and nursing staff who were forced to choose between the 'vaccine' and their job. I employ five care and support workers directly, using a direct payment from my local authority to support my son in his own home, and two of them at least were care workers who refused the jab. (Just as we did - my son is also unvaxxed, because he hates needles and being injected). By the way, my son has Downs Syndrome and two serious underlying but well-medicated autoimmune diseases requiring daily medication , and he is fit and healthy - he absolutely rocked Covid with minimal discomfort and is strong as a horse.
We were not put under pressure, but some parents were: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/13/mother-battle-covid-jab-feared-kill-son/ Mother wins battle to stop son having Covid vaccine she feared could kill him
Devoted parent says landmark case to protect disabled Tom was a ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’ that nearly bankrupted her
This is a really thoughtful reflection and I think much nearer the mark than many of the published articles about moral injury, which for me always seem to skirt around the more unpalatable aspects underlying this phenomenon. I had not come across the term moral injury until 2020. I think a related concept is moral blindness. What differentiates moral injury from guilt?
I'm not sure about the BMJ authors suggestion that moral injury arises in part from healthcare workers sacrificing their/their own loved ones needs/preferences for those of strangers/wider society. This certainly would generate complex feelings, but not all negative.
I wondered if moral injury might partly explain why some vocal healthcare workers on social media appeared to project their anger by blaming various real or imagined categories of dangerous 'other' (lockdown skeptics, anti-maskers, covidiots, anti-vaxxers, fringe scientists) for the perpetuation of the pandemic. The longer the harmful policies were enacted, the more difficult it was to justify them even to themselves, but no-one had the courage to stop doing the things they believed had kept people safe.
You summarise the crux of the issue well with the sentence 'a morally injured workforce is evidence that the response to covid-19 was morally wrong.'