Vaccine hesitancy aside, I wanted to highlight this part, emphases mine:
"Carole Phillips, an NHS clinical director in Portsmouth, is best described as a straight talker. A former army medic who served in Afghanistan, she is now running outreach programmes in the city - trying to get the Covid vaccine to the most vulnerable.
"In Portsmouth, we have still got a large percentage of the population - 20% - who haven't had their first jab," she says. "We have to reach out to these people, regardless of their lifestyle, to protect all of us in the end.
Carole and a colleague are out jabbing people at a walk-in clinic based in the Recovery Hub - a local centre aimed at the homeless community. There is a steady stream of people coming in, some with their dogs, as she calmly explains the benefits of the vaccine and its possible side effects.
Just after midday, 53-year-old Barry Wilson arrives for his first jab of Pfizer. He has been living rough, or in a hostel since 2015 but says he has "done his research" and is worried about the virus, especially with his underlying health problems.
"I feel like one of the lucky ones because I've never had Covid, so I just keep putting [the vaccine] off and off," he says. "I've asked a lot of people who've had the jab and they said, because I've got [the lung disease] COPD then I'm at higher risk.""
NB: 'straight talker' is code for asshole, 'lifestyle' is when you choose to be homeless at 53 with major health problems for... reasons
Basically, please do your bit to protect us, and then fuck off and die on the streets. Do we live in a society now?
At the start of the pandemic in the UK, (some) homeless people were put up in hotels. This caused a lot of complaints from hotel owners about them supposedly causing problems or wrecking the place (almost certainly just snobbery from owners/managers). Of course, when a coked up ladsladslads party wrecks a hotel room, they can charge them or claim insurance, not so with the homeless.
The article goes on to talk about the "largest community of travelling showmen in Europe" (and then interviews a showwoman)
"Madison did have her first vaccine dose at a local GP surgery but says she found it busy and unsafe. NHS staff working here recognise that mainstream services like mass vaccination centres can put off some in the community.
"They may feel stigmatised or judged in some way," says Lidia Woods, who is running the outreach programme for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. "I know the nurses would never do that, but it's just their personal views."
It's just their personal views, of course the nurses or doctors in Essex would never stigmatise travellers