Clinic Staff Stand Up | KOLLATERAL


At the beginning nobody knew how dangerous the new corona virus was. Nurses and doctors still had to do their work. They risked their lives for their profession, for their patients. Many were infected – vaccinated or unvaccinated alike. Most of them have recovered by now. But for the politicians only a vaccinated nurse is a good nurse.

Two days after Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor, the German parliament passed, as its first law, compulsory vaccination in medical institutions and care homes. Now it is to be put into force. Thousands of health workers face dismissal. But the clinic staff are standing up.

Yes, I am sitting here now simply because I am unvaccinated. Because I decided for myself not to get vaccinated, for medical reasons, very personal medical reasons. And now I am affected by it, having to leave my profession because of the facility-based vaccination mandate, or being thrown out. And against that I am standing up and getting involved. With this group, Clinic Staff Stand Up. I find it a bit hard that this is hitting me like this now, after fighting for two years, that I now have to fight for my job and for my vocation. But I have no other option at all. We really believed that the law would not come.

We believed it. And then it came. And then all at once the thought came up in this group: damn it, there are too few of us. We are simply just six people. What do we do, the six of us? We have so many colleagues, they are all vaccinated. And nobody is going to support us there at first either. And then one person from my group, Sebastian, says: we have only one chance, to become more. So we decided to build a wider network in Baden-Württemberg. And we drew up a letter so that everyone, and indeed everyone affected, could gather behind it. Elderly care, the occupational therapists, the physiotherapists, the administrative staff, the auxiliary workers, the caretakers. Whatever we could not find in it. And in two and a half weeks we brought this letter to 6,334 signatures.

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