Posted on 09/14/2023 9:20:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern this Thursday for a discussion with Aaron Kheriaty, author of The New Abnormal about the persistent COVID mandates for K-12 schools, college campuses and health care settings.
It's back-to-school season, and for some parts of the country, that means dealing with COVID restrictions again. Americans are no longer experiencing indefinite school closures or ubiquitous masking, but intermittent school closures, temporary mask mandates, and COVID vaccine requirements persist.
Will it ever end? Or are we in "the new abnormal?"
That's what Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and fellow and director of the Program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, argued in his 2022 book, The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State. Kheriaty worked at the University of California, Irvine for almost 15 years, both as a professor and director of UCI Health's Medical Ethics Program, until he was fired for challenging the school's COVID vaccine mandate. He's also a plaintiff in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, which alleges that the federal government coerced social media companies into censoring legally protected speech during the pandemic.
Join Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe for a discussion with Kheriaty on all these topics this Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern on Reason's YouTube channel.
Sources referenced in this conversation:
ABC News: "School districts in Kentucky, Texas cancel classes amid 'surge' of illnesses including COVID"
Bloomberg: "Covid Mask Mandate at Elementary School Draws Ire of Some Republicans"
Reason: "The University of Michigan Will Force Students With COVID To Leave Campus"
Cochrane Library: "Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses."
American College Health Association report on campus vaccine mandates and COVID policies
Reason: "A Federal Judge Blocks California's Ban on Medical Advice That Promotes COVID-19 'Misinformation'"
Aaron Kheriaty in The Wall Street Journal: "University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics"
Aaron Kheriaty's lawsuit against the University of California, Irvine
5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Missouri v. Biden
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When they started all of this, did anyone here honestly think it was ever going to stop?
Just like the flu or the common cold the virus will never stop mutating and the versions are for all practical purposes infinite. That means that we’ll get regular panic themed news stories of the latest variant for the rest of our lives.
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Enslavement part Deux
The Religion of Masking!
GWENDOLYN KULL SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Masking restrictions are not a “health power” the state governments are permitted to enforce.
Masking mandates are not a public health measure the federal government is permitted to sanction.
Both impede life and liberty guaranteed to the People by being human and safeguarded by the People through enforcing our Constitution.
As such, the People will not comply.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-religion-of-masking/
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