{"id":63715,"date":"2021-11-19T08:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=63715"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:27:39","slug":"local-supermarket-boss-issues-statement-about-covid-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/local-supermarket-boss-issues-statement-about-covid-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Supermarket Boss Issues Statement About COVID Vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John-Paul Drake \u2013 Director of Drakes Supermarkets \u2013 has posted a statement online saying he will \u201cencourage our staff to be vaccinated\u201d but unless the government makes COVID vaccinations mandatory he will let staff make up their own minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-podcast-18-november-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show Podcast - 18 November 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy said during Friday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThis is a big story\u2026 as far as they [Drakes] are concerned at the moment they are going to let people decide. They are not going to compel their staff to do it and he\u2019s quite forthright in what he says. Not everyone will agree with it\u2026 he has gone full-blown down the path of choice\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cDrakes is a great business but not everyone is of the view this is a make up your own mind scenario because the basis on which some people are making up their own minds is laughably wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6866548032272510976\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JOHN-PAUL DRAKE\u2019S LINKEDIN POST HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:6866548031697903616\" height=\"1455\" width=\"504\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" title=\"Embedded post\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>FIVEAA FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM &#8211; FRIDAY 19 NOV &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F5318888408128154%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John-Paul Drake \u2013 Director of Drakes Supermarkets \u2013 has posted a statement online saying he will \u201cencourage our staff to be vaccinated\u201d but unless the government makes COVID vaccinations mandatory he will let staff make up their own minds. FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy said during Friday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment: \u201cThis is a big story\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":63716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-63715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Local Supermarket Boss Issues Statement About COVID Vaccinations - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/local-supermarket-boss-issues-statement-about-covid-vaccinations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local Supermarket Boss Issues Statement About COVID Vaccinations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John-Paul Drake \u2013 Director of Drakes Supermarkets \u2013 has posted a statement online saying he will \u201cencourage our staff to be vaccinated\u201d but unless the government makes COVID vaccinations mandatory he will let staff make up their own minds. 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