Posted on 04/07/2022 3:28:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The best universities in the world are supposed to be bastions of scientific reasoning. Instead, during the pandemic, they instituted policies that are at odds with basic principles of public health. This includes, unfortunately, Stanford University, where I am an international graduate student in the PhD program in Physics.
This spring, Stanford instituted a requirement that all students be vaccinated or else face an "enrollment hold" which restricts their ability to complete classes, progress on degrees, get financial aid or even live on campus. Though the university was not explicit, these restrictions on the unboosted amount to effective expulsion from the university.
COVID is a disease that discriminates by age. Nearly 80 percent of COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S. have occurred among people 65 or older, and young people like me are relatively spared from the risk of hospitalization and death if infected. While bad outcomes can still happen, the odds are in line with other risks in my own life that I happily take.
Because of this discrepancy, COVID vaccines are most important for the older population. The vaccines are very effective in reducing the risk of severe disease and death upon COVID infection, with the greatest absolute risk reduction for the older population. By the same token, the vaccine is much less beneficial for young people like me.
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Ample reason to avoid a university that’s so ignorant of science. (Bet the physics dept folks think that this is a bunch of Obamastuff.)
Now, as much as I think that mandatory vax requirement is BS, I am all for requiring it for foreign-visa’d students across the board, no exceptions.
Unbeleivble that an insitutkion is still pushing this pointless medical procedure.
But illegals need not get the kill shot.
Guessing it all depends on sheepish students feel.
Welcome to America, the land of the free....
er Mengele medicine.
Leave. Stop wasting your money.
It is, of course, unfortunately worse than “pointless”.
They also get free education.
“Welcome to America, the land of the free....er Mengele medicine.”
Now accepting counterfeit or forged inoculation documentation.
First good news on Immigration in over a year.
Yes that’s the elephant in the room. We kick out Ph.D students who aren’t vaxxed but unvaxxed illegals are fine. Maybe the Ph.D. students can read peer reviewed publications and make up their own minds if benefits outweigh the risks.
Go to Mexico and come back as an illegal; problem solved.
I don't agree with you there. They should have a choice, same as me, same as you.
However, they should have to prove they don't have dreaded diseases when entering the country.
Yep, I worked at MIT and they fired me after not getting a booster. They wouldn’t give me an exemption from their religious beliefs.
Would have to show vaxxed card?
There’s a reason they call them Stanford Stupid
Half the students are rich kid legacies
The other half are woketard affirmative action activists
Some people in the grad school are actually a cut above, Stahn-ford recruits them out of other universities after they already made a name for themselves
Other then that, all show and no go
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