Posted on 06/14/2021 5:11:51 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Some 450 U.S. colleges and universities—including our institutions—have announced policies mandating that all students be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 before the fall semester, with some requiring vaccination now for the summer term. Schools have for decades required vaccination against infectious diseases, but these mandates are unprecedented—and unethical. Never before have colleges insisted that students or employees receive an experimental vaccine as a condition of attendance or employment.
Even soldiers, whose rights are constrained when they join the service, aren’t being compelled to take a Covid vaccine. In a case involving a vaccine against anthrax, a federal district judge held in 2004 that “the United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs” absent informed consent or a presidential waiver of service members’ legal protections. The following year the judge held that an emergency-use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration was insufficient to meet the legal test.
The FDA has issued such authorizations for three Covid vaccines, but it hasn’t fully approved any of them. Students at Notre Dame (for example) resume classes on Aug. 23, and freshmen arrive on campus Aug. 18. The Pfizer vaccine—first in line for approval—requires three weeks before the booster shot, so it would have to be approved by July 28 for students to meet the school’s deadline without making themselves experimental subjects. Pfizer applied to the FDA May 7 for “priority review,” a process that usually takes six months.
Universities might counter that—as with elementary schools requiring pediatric vaccinations—immunization is for students’ own good. But children can be at significant medical risks from the illnesses that we vaccinate them against, particularly when community vaccination rates are low. Not so with Covid. For those under 30, the risks of morbidity and mortality are close to zero.
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Something very, very sinister is happening in so many ways.....
Something wicked this way comes......
My granddaughter just finished her plebe year at the USNA. She recived the vacination, I don’t have a problem with it.
Military academies are a different situation in my view.
There is a long history of the military requiring experimental, sometimes even dangerous vaccinations. It is just “part of the deal”.
When civilian institutions require such treatments that is medical malpractice, abuse of power and Nanzi tactics.
‘79 last class with balz
In a Nation of Laws, these University Heads would have been Arrested and Criminally Prosecuted for thier Extortion Demand to Take an Experimental Drug.
But we live in a Nation of Men now...
The 'medicines' touted in the ads have been deemed ok for years: fully tested and vetted by the powers that be.
Yet some of the side effects are horrendous!
You want to FORCE college kids; supposedly America's best and brightest; to take what is still an experimental 'medicine'?
When collectivism becomes “sameness” people die!
She lived, be grateful.
Colleges are filled with Plannedemic Puritans and scared little sheep.
My alma mater in southcentral PA has all of its entrances plastered with “No Trespassing”signs and “Face Covering required”...despite the change in CDC “guidance” and PA regulations.
No alumni $$ from me.
Colleges are filled with Plannedemic Puritans and scared little sheep.
My alma mater in southcentral PA has all of its entrances plastered with “No Trespassing”signs and “Face Covering required”...despite the change in CDC “guidance” and PA regulations.
No alumni $$ from me.
They are ALSO filled with kids that are saying no.
I have heard of rumor within the military that they’ll be moving the first of the Covid injections to full approval this summer (ahead of usual processes, of course). That would not only mean that they could force it on the military, but that this sort of argument against the use of “experimental” vaccines would be effectively countered as well.
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