Jiménez Losantos: Unvaccinated staff barred from his media firm

Jiménez Losantos: "Unvaccinated people cannot enter"

Federico Jiménez Losantos has built a career defending individual liberty through the microphone. In one of his talk shows, as reported in online threads, he dismissed freedom as a university concept and announced that at his own company "no unvaccinated person can enter, because they infect me and I lose my newsroom." The striking part is not the opinion itself, but who signs it: one of the broadcasters who most insisted that the State is unnecessary when it interferes, yet now demands State imposition.

The trigger was his explanation of pandemic management. In daily life, he argued, "one must negotiate with reality," and negotiating with reality means getting vaccinated. From there, he jumped to a broader thesis: liberalism would make us believe the State is unnecessary, whereas without the State—according to him—there is no possible liberalism, only "mafia gangs." This phrase summarizes the shift: the market when convenient, public apparatus when protecting the newsroom.

Freedom, a university matter: what he said and why it causes discomfort

For much of his audience, who trinc him as a liberal reference, this outburst is not a minor detail. Some argue that consistency requires respecting the individual decision to vaccinate or not, and that those demanding its imposition switch sides without warning. Counter-arguments suggest that freedom also includes the right to hire—who you work with—even if the criteria are debatable.

He is not the only one criticized. In the same context, other names from economic and liberal journalism have defended similar positions. The conclusion drawn: the label holds until antiestéticar appears, revealing each person's true nature.

Can an employer require vaccination from employees?

Here the issue splits in two. One school argues that a private company can hire whomever it wants for any reason, including vaccination status, provided the State does not impose hiring criteria. Under this logic, requiring the vaccine as a job requirement would be an owner's decision, as legitimate as it is questionable. The same yardstick used to defend dismissal freedom should apply, they argue, when the criteria are unpopular.

The objection is twofold. First, hiring is different from threatening to fire existing employees, which resembles coercion. Second, asking employees about medical data enters regulated territory: health data processing is subject to strict rules, and several messages note that openly admitting such practices could lead to legal consequences. It is worth clarifying: these are analyses, not verdicts, and no judicial proceedings are known.

VOX and mandatory vaccination: from Olona to the electoral program

The issue also affects VOX, which tried to distance itself. Santiago Abascal defended the freedom to choose whether to vaccinate. VOX leader Macarena Olona had formulated a slightly more slippery position: voluntary vaccination "unless health technicians recommend making it mandatory." The distance between both phrases is short, but enough for some to suspect the party keeps the door open to imposition.

Added to this is another circulating datum: VOX reportedly submitted a bill to Congress mandating childhood vaccination, a promise appearing in its then-current electoral program. The program, it is argued, is the contract guiding a legislature. The uncomfortable consequence: while presenting itself as a defender of choice, its electoral contract contained a mandate for mandatory vaccination of minors.

Transmission among the vaccinated and the Abruzzo restaurant case

The central argument—that the unvaccinated infect the vaccinated—clashes with a recurring point in the thread: critics claim the vaccinated also get infected and transmit the bicho. The most cited episode involves a restaurant in Abruzzo, Italy, where, according to a message citing Italian reports, 11 of 12 employees tested positive for Elbichito on August 12, 2021, mostly fully vaccinated with health certificates, while the unvaccinated owner tested negative.

This case challenges the logic of labor exclusion: if vaccination doesn't prevent infection, requiring it as a condition doesn't protect as advertised. On this point, clarity is essential: claims denying vaccine utility or attributing specific deaths to them circulate without proven backing and should not be taken as facts. References also appear regarding prior natural immunity in care homes and vaccination rates in typical companies, with figures impossible to verify outside the narrative.

The death of a journalist from Libertad Digital has been mixed into this debate with unverified hypotheses, demanding prudence and respect for the person and their family. What remains, however, is an uncomfortable question for its protagonist: if freedom was a university matter, what was the brand sold for years actually made of?