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MikeTomAus's avatar

Very useful - thanks!

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DemocracyManifest's avatar

Very interesting! re the OxCGRT data at a glance, the main focus of discriminatory vaccination policies is 'passports' (aka "the vaccinated economy" or "public space mandates") as opposed to employment mandates, correct?

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ClausR2020's avatar

Thanks. Yes, that's correct re OxCGRT and therefore our focus too. I would explain it from the perspective of differential access restrictions, e.g. to schools, events, transit. Workplace closing C2 is about sectors being open/closed for unvaccinated workers, but the details of employment mandates are better reflected through the indicator V4, see pages 51-52 and then 70-71 of the Hale et al. (2023) working paper, https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/BSG-WP-2020-032-v15.pdf. That indicator is something we might look into next, since employment mandates affected us along with campus staff and contractors, and even students looking for co-op placements....

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DemocracyManifest's avatar

Thank you for the reply. This is interesting because in Australia, for example, the 'academic experts' in so-called 'vaccine hesitancy' have demonstrated that vaccine passports had very little impact on shifting the non-compliance of 'refusers'. The only policy which had an impact on this group was employment mandates (which would encompass student enrollment mandates) - ie. depriving people of their livelihood/ earning capacity. (The term "workplace mandate" / campus mandate was demonstrably untrue, as those who could work or study 100% remotely were likewise mandated.)

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Ursula Edgington, PhD's avatar

I’m working on data currently from a survey of teachers & nurses who were fired from their jobs in NZ during the mandate era (many have been unable or unwilling to return to these sectors since). I would welcome an opportunity for a discussion (webinar?) to share our knowledge?

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DemocracyManifest's avatar

Hi Ursula - the info in the comment actually not an area of research/ knowledge beyond a couple of publicly available reviews of 'vaccine hesitancy'... a huge area of well-funded "study", it seems!

See Elizabeth Hart's substack for deep dives on the topic: https://elizabethhart.substack.com/

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Ursula Edgington, PhD's avatar

Thanks. Will look. I’m in regular contact with Elizabeth, thanks.

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ClausR2020's avatar

Ursula, have a look at Dr. Claudia Chaufan's multiple publications about the impact of healthcare sector (and also postsecondary!) mandates in Canada, https://recover19.org/publications/. There are 1-2 additional, unpublished preprints on Claudia's osf.io profile, I believe.

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DemocracyManifest's avatar

Interesting links, Claus.

re the Chaufan publication "COVID-19 vaccination decisions and impacts of vaccine mandates: a cross sectional survey of healthcare workers in Ontario, Canada" - Table 3 Personal impact of vaccination policies (p 11)...

This data is a reminder that the desired "goal" of employment mandates according to the aforementioned experts was achieved: The mandates were intended to be maximally punitive and permanent across multiple domains.

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