About half of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's employees have declined vaccine

[TexasTowelie]

About half of the Santa Clara County Sheriff Office employees have declined to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, meaning that dozens of staffers are working in jails unvaccinated, according to the office.

Although 861 of the department’s more than 1,800 employees have received both doses of the vaccine, almost 800 more have declined to take the COVID-19 vaccine, sheriff’s officials reported Thursday during the county’s Public Safety and Justice Committee meeting. Another 200 or so employees do not yet qualify to receive it.

The high number of refusals left county supervisors reeling Thursday, particularly as the number of incarcerated people who have been infected surged past 500 since the start of the new year. Of the employees that have declined the vaccine, about 400 work in the custody division.

“I am a little bit speechless,” said County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg. “We cannot significantly reduce or eliminate outbreaks in the jails if every day, we have people coming into the jail who haven’t been vaccinated.”

Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/05/about-half-of-the-santa-clara-county-sheriffs-employees-have-declined-vaccine/
(San Jose Mercury News)

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Good Grief!

[TexasTowelie]

2. Personally, I believe that all of those employees should be required to sign a waiver

acknowledging that an opportunity was provided for them to receive vaccinations and also waiving their rights to sue the employer. A lot of them probably believe that they will only have a minor illness and that they will receive a large settlement for future damages.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Perhaps there are a lot of RW nut jobs in police forces?

[TexasTowelie]

4. Ya think? nt

[whathehell]

5. Since it's a safety risk, can it be made a condition of continued employment?

These people are too freaking weird for words.

[rurallib]

6. Very surprised it is not.