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Why have no other states joined California in issuing a schoolchildren COVID vaccine mandate?
SF Gate ^ | December 6, 2021 | By Eric Ting

Posted on 12/06/2021 6:33:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

In early October, Gov. Gavin Newsom triumphantly announced that California would become the first state in the nation to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for children attending school, once the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the shot for the 5-11 and 12-16 age groups.

Two months later, no states have followed Newsom's lead — not even states that have been similarly aggressive in implementing COVID-19 restrictions, such as Washington, New York, Oregon and Hawaii.

Why is that? Dr. Elena Conis, a historian of medicine and public health at UC Berkeley, believes that California's breakneck pace can be attributed to momentum on childhood vaccinations that predates the pandemic.

"Before COVID, California switched from being one of the states with the nation's most lenient childhood mandatory vaccination laws to one of the states with the strictest," she said.

Because the state had already recently tightened the screws on childhood vaccination laws with minimal backlash, Conis believes that state health officials felt comfortable moving forward with the first-in-the-nation mandate. As for why other states have yet to follow suit, Conis is less sure.

Dr. Amy Beck, an expert in pediatrics at UCSF, noted that California's mandate is only a "plan to make a plan," as it will not take effect until full FDA approval is given.

Given the squishiness of the plan, Beck hypothesized the mandate may be more about politics than anything.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; mandate; marxism; schools; vaccine; virus; wuhan

1 posted on 12/06/2021 6:33:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sacramento is a Marxist enclave.


2 posted on 12/06/2021 6:34:34 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Given the squishiness of the plan, Beck hypothesized the mandate may be more about politics than anything.

The whole damn pandemic has been about politics and control.


3 posted on 12/06/2021 6:35:53 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

School overcrowding? The vaccine should free up a few spots due to adverse reaction deaths.


4 posted on 12/06/2021 6:37:49 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
NYC just did...

NYC Expands Vaccine Mandate to Whole Private Sector, Ups Dose Proof to 2 and Adds Kids 5-11

5 posted on 12/06/2021 6:38:43 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After beating the recall he’s a power hungry POS.


6 posted on 12/06/2021 6:39:40 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The more students they force the out of the public school system, the better. Why anyone would allow a child into a public school is beyond me. Children would be safer in a convicted pedophile block of the state prison.


7 posted on 12/06/2021 6:41:08 AM PST by ALPAPilot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why? Because jabbing kids with poison is unspeakably evil. The parents that allow this should be charged with child abuse.


8 posted on 12/06/2021 6:41:08 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because no other state’s residents are sufficiently Marxist robots to stand for that, especially after the exodus of most of the remaining sensible Californians in the last few years.


9 posted on 12/06/2021 6:42:23 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because Cali is run by stupid people who do not have good intentions?


10 posted on 12/06/2021 6:47:14 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has Governor Newsome gotten his own children vaccinated yet? Probably not, else it would be in the news. Seems California continues with dictatorial rulers preferring ‘do as we say, not as we do’ leadership. I wish I could say that no other state is as stupid, but we’ve got a lot of the same BS here in neighboring Nevada and appears New York and elsewhere. Payback will be elections next fall.


11 posted on 12/06/2021 6:52:29 AM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Why have no other states joined California in issuing a schoolchildren COVID vaccine mandate?”

Because Pfizer has yet to bribe the governors of the other states.

They’ve been too busy bribing at the national level to bribe at the state level.

But, don’t worry. They’ll get around to it soon enough.


12 posted on 12/06/2021 7:06:29 AM PST by Brookhaven (The dystopian future is now!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Why have no other states joined California in issuing a schoolchildren COVID vaccine mandate?”

Because Pfizer has yet to bribe the governors of the other states.

They’ve been too busy bribing at the national level to bribe at the state level.

But, don’t worry. They’ll get around to it soon enough.


13 posted on 12/06/2021 7:06:30 AM PST by Brookhaven (The dystopian future is now!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Given the squishiness of the plan, Beck hypothesized the mandate may be more about politics than anything.

Ya think?

14 posted on 12/06/2021 7:31:04 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CaCaLand has an obsession about being “first”, even if about nothing of importance. This is a virtue signaling issue with politicos.

It’s like Apple fanboys simply die if they aren’t first in line to buy another piece of CCP-manufactured crappola from the Apple store. It is a psychological sickness.

It is also why lemmings still exist. The ones in the back see the ones in front disappearing.


15 posted on 12/06/2021 7:32:44 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s Gavin giving us the Giant Middle Finger cor having the gall to try to recall him. If you try to kill the king, make sure you succeed. He’s like a non-binary gender-fluid woman scorned.


16 posted on 12/06/2021 7:52:39 AM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s because California wallows in delusion and corruption. Public teachers unions ginned up hysteria over children and adolescents as an excuse to get paid while staying at home. Much of the population is thoroughly partisan and willfully brainwashed. They now really believe that children and adolescents are in terrible danger from the disease, or from spreading it. They could care less about results in Florida, Texas, etc., that prove otherwise.


17 posted on 12/06/2021 8:11:15 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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