{"id":239388,"date":"2021-07-26T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239388"},"modified":"2021-07-27T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:50:36","slug":"french-hospital-goes-on-indefinite-strike-to-protest-covid-19-vaccination-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239388","title":{"rendered":"French hospital goes on INDEFINITE strike to protest Covid-19 vaccination mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT \u2013 July 23, 2021<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The staff of the hospital in Montelimar, in the French department of Drome, have gone on indefinite strike to protest the new rules demanding they take a vaccine against Covid-19 by mid-September or face losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The strike against <em>\u201cforced vaccination\u201d<\/em> was announced on Thursday by the CGT-GHPP trade union, and affects some 200 doctors and 1,500 nurses in the southeastern French city.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of them gathered outside the hospital on Friday, denouncing lockdowns and vaccine mandates and chanting<em> \u201clibert\u00e9!\u201d<\/em> (freedom).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">H\u00f4pital de Mont\u00e9limar en ce moment: Pour protester contre l\u2019obligation vaccinale des <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/soignants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#soignants<\/a> , le personnel de l\u2019h\u00f4pital de Mont\u00e9limar a entam\u00e9 une gr\u00e8ve illimit\u00e9e. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PasseSanitaire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PasseSanitaire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BFX29w8qB7\">pic.twitter.com\/BFX29w8qB7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LE G\u00c9N\u00c9RAL\ud83d\udde8 (@_LEGENERALOFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_LEGENERALOFF\/status\/1418580803982868485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The French legislature is finalizing the proposal that would require all medical professionals in contact with the vulnerable to be fully vaccinated by September 15, or else lose their salaries and even their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are against mandatory vaccination and vaccine coercion,\u201d<\/em> Elsa Ruillere, local union representative, told <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.sputniknews.com\/sante\/202107231045914428-lhopital-de-montelimar-entre-en-greve-contre-le-vaccin-impose-aux-soignants\/\">Sputnik France<\/a>. <em>\u201cThere is no choice between tests or vaccination: vaccination is compulsory. No, we don&#8217;t agree. We want to have the choice like the rest of the world and we do not want compulsory vaccination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ruillere says her union supports <em>\u201cfree and informed consent\u201d<\/em> and is not against vaccination on principle but is against coercion. Some of the medical workers said they are waiting for the French-made Sanofi-GSK vaccine, promised for December.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Dans la Dr\u00f4me, les personnels hospitaliers soignants et non-soignants de la CGT de l&#39;h\u00f4pital de Mont\u00e9limar ont appel\u00e9 \u00e0 une gr\u00e8ve illimit\u00e9e contre le vaccin impos\u00e9 aux soignants<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ApollineMatin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ApollineMatin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S7tGhnpcgn\">pic.twitter.com\/S7tGhnpcgn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RMC (@RMCinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMCinfo\/status\/1418073333594198019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>We are well aware of the evolution of the virus. We do not take it lightly,\u201d<\/em> Ruillere said. However, she and her striking colleagues point out that even with the rise in positive tests for the Delta variant of the coronavirus, there is no commensurate rise in hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYes, we turned \u2018red\u2019 but that&#8217;s in fact due to the positive tests. In terms of hospitalizations, we are fine at the moment, we did not need to reopen beds, we have far fewer hospitalized people than before and fewer people in intensive care,\u201d<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n<p>Another union gripe is the lack of public debate, since France\u2019s National Assembly seems to have simply proceeded on the advice of the High Health Authority (HAS), which called the vaccination mandate <em>\u201cjustified.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There have been widespread protests in France since mid-July, as the government of President Emmanuel Macron imposed the vaccination mandate on health workers and introduced a\u00a0 <em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/529827-france-covid19-pass-health-vaccine\/\">health pass<\/a>\u201d<\/em> requirement to access public venues with more than 50 people in attendance. The pass requirement will extend to cafes, restaurants and shops starting August 1.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a 150% increase in coronavirus cases over the past week in France, attributed to the Delta variant. The government says 96% of those infected are unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/530095-hospital-strike-france-mandatory-vaccine\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Hundred doctors and fifteen hundred nurses at a hospital in Montelimar, France, have gone on strike to protest mandatory vaccinations for medical staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":239390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-france"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239391,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239388\/revisions\/239391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}