Posted on 02/02/2022 9:24:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Colleges with students fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are now seeing surges in infections. The case spikes were largely driven by the highly transmissible B11529 omicron variant.
The University of Oregon (UO) is one such college that saw COVID-19 cases rise among fully vaccinated students. Aisha Ghorashian, a senior at the university, told NPR:
“You feel the stress on campus. People don’t feel safe. You see people wearing double masking and those N95 [masks] that I’ve never seen people wear before.”
Despite UO’s student body having a vaccination rate of more than 96%, the university still reported 960 COVID-19 infections in the first week of January 2022. This coincided with students returning to campus for in-person classes.
Several colleges and universities also reported spikes in infections in the first week of the spring semester. The University of Georgia reported almost a thousand positive cases on campus. Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, meanwhile, reported 1,196 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Dartmouth senior Sophia Kriz told NPR that she is worried that the steady rise of COVID-19 infections on campus could shut down the semester.
“It sort of feels like we’re in a state of limbo. We’re all on campus, but we’re all just waiting to hear how things are going. All I can do from there is just hope that things get a little more normal.”
According to NPR, colleges are some of the most vaccinated places in the United States. It cited a study by the COVID States Project, which said that 74% of college students were injected with the COVID-19 vaccines at least once as of September 2021.
Despite omicron hitting fully vaccinated people, the mainstream media claims the resumption of in-person learning in the spring semester is to blame for the infection. According to the College Crisis Initiative, only 14% of colleges started the semester online. Before the COVID-19 vaccines were developed, about 40% of colleges began their semesters virtually.
NPR also mentioned the different protocols colleges have implemented to address the spike in infections. Dartmouth has required all students to get a COVID-19 booster shot by the end of January. The New Hampshire-based college has also implemented weekly COVID-19 testing and moved most social activities online. Face-to-face classes remain, however.
Others have resorted to emergency measures. Some schools are now tapping hotels to house COVID-positive students.
One educational institution in Los Angeles opted for a more radical measure – “isolating” unvaccinated students behind tape barriers. L.A.-based New West Charter School (NWCS) confirmed on January 18th that it had segregated a group of students who did not receive the vaccine. The school claimed that the cordoned-off students were conducting a sit-in protest against the charter school’s vaccine mandate.
The six students who did the sit-in were not even allowed to use the bathroom. NWCS also allegedly threatened to suspend the unvaccinated students for turning down the COVID-19 shot.
According to a statement from the charter school, it had implemented a vaccine mandate for students – with a compliance rate of 96%. The six students who were cordoned off “did not follow the new [vaccination] policy” and “still attempted to participate in classes,” leading NWCS to ask them to leave the campus. The unvaccinated students refused to do so and instead did the sit-in.
The people enforcing this can’t admit they were wrong.
Why?
Because CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
We live in an area where almost all the people over 60 have been “vaccinated”. Strangely, every person we know who has told us that they have had a confirmed case of Omicron has been vaccinated. Yet our governor is till forcing people to be fired, you can’t get food at a restaurant without your vaccination record, and we have to wear masks inside every retail establishment.
“If omicron only hits the fully vaccinated, why restrict unvaccinated students also?”
That one is an easy question. So you will have a health passport app on your cellphone that will eventually enable all sorts of things:
1. Who you have been in contact with
2. How many boosters you have
3. Your digital wallet which tracks your spending
4. Your purchase and donation history which could be used to make sure you give to the correct charities, religious institutions and political candidates
5. Your carbon credit score (that steak you had last night just dinged your score, bad bad person)
6. Your entire medical history
7. Your psychological profile
8. Lists of firearms you have and ammunition you purchased
9. Your social media profiles
10. Your social credit score
So if you have been good, eaten vegan hamburgers and donated to Nancy Pelosi you are good to go. If you have been bad, visited winred.com, eaten a slab of beef or fish you can find your digital wallet shut down and your vax status cancelled.
Seriously?
Don't post nonsense.
Omicron seems to be the common cold to the unvaccinated, but many of the vaccinated are actually having real problems with it. We just got a call from one of my wife’s good friends. She is slightly built with no health issues and has been fully vaccinated along with a booster but has been “very sick” with a confirmed case of Covid. Her unvaccinated overweight husband has not been sick. It just seems to run against the narrative.
“...why restrict unvaccinated students also?...” NON compliant individuals or “NCIs” as I think of them. Oh, and me. Surely there will be some inclusion of those on the fbi terry wrist watch list.
If the college you chose to pay tuition to mandates the ‘jab’, you are making the worst possible investment of your time, money, and your life.
MS State U has no vaccine mandate. 216 cases this week, of about 22000 students. I don’t know what percentage are vaccinated.
Does MSU still allow packed football and basketball games?
Our personal experience has been that our fully vaccinated and boosted friends and associates are the ones who are now getting sick. The fire department that I retired from has twice the number of people off “sick” than they ever have had in its over 140 year history. The vast majority are vaxxed with boosters. The unvaxxed who were supposed to have already been fired due to our governor's order are currently covering for them with mandatory overtime. Apparently “natural immunity” from treating people for 2 years does give some protection against Omicron.
To us it seems like you are the one posting nonsense. Earth to “Republican Wildcat” the “vaccines” no longer work. Get a clue!
Great post and great reality questions.
“Fully Vaccinated Colleges Now Seeing Surges In COVID Cases”
If omicron only hits the fully vaccinated, why restrict unvaccinated students also?
Covid World ^ | 02/02/2022 | Ramon Tomey
Colleges with students fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are now seeing surges in infections. The case spikes were largely driven by the highly transmissible B11529 omicron variant.
It should be clear to everyone that the vaccines completely and massively crapped the bed.
RE: Seriously? Don’t post nonsense.
Write to the author. I only post what he wrote.
But I think he’s referring to the colleges that only allow vaccinated students to attend.
I mean, really?
Don’t know about basketball. We went to the Egg Bowl. I don’t recall spaced seating. It was not a full stadium.
Perhaps if the college kids receive a booster a month, they will be saved from COVID-19? Death by myocarditis is ONE way to avoid COVID-19
No one has ever claimed the vaccines were 100% effective in stopping infections. Another factor is these colleges are almost all doing weekly testing. The more you test, the more infections you’ll find. The key question is how many of these infections are serious?
Colleges with vaxx and mask mandates are training their students to be concentration camp inmates.
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