VA AG: State colleges can’t mandate COVID vaccines

[Anonymous]

What could go wrong, especially for students congregate living in dorms in the middle of a pandemic? I wonder if any schools will challenge this “opinion.” Seems outrageous given vaccination requirements for attendance are pretty standard.

https://richmond.com/news/local/education/miyares-colleges-cannot-legally-mandate-covid-vaccines-for-students/article_abcc47f6-b1c8-5c3b-a2ea-688f20dd9e30.html

[Anonymous]

Idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What could go wrong, especially for students congregate living in dorms in the middle of a pandemic? I wonder if any schools will challenge this “opinion.” Seems outrageous given vaccination requirements for attendance are pretty standard.

https://richmond.com/news/local/education/miyares-colleges-cannot-legally-mandate-covid-vaccines-for-students/article_abcc47f6-b1c8-5c3b-a2ea-688f20dd9e30.html

Many other colleges have not mandated the vaccine. You can look at their Covid dashboards and compare them to some of the Virginia state colleges. From the ones I've seen, there isn't much difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What could go wrong, especially for students congregate living in dorms in the middle of a pandemic? I wonder if any schools will challenge this “opinion.” Seems outrageous given vaccination requirements for attendance are pretty standard.

https://richmond.com/news/local/education/miyares-colleges-cannot-legally-mandate-covid-vaccines-for-students/article_abcc47f6-b1c8-5c3b-a2ea-688f20dd9e30.html

Many other colleges have not mandated the vaccine. You can look at their Covid dashboards and compare them to some of the Virginia state colleges. From the ones I've seen, there isn't much difference.

Let’s just play Russian Roulette and scrap measles vaccines for college students then, eh?

[Anonymous]

Not clear from the article, is he applying this to private colleges and universities in VA too?

[Anonymous]

A list of colleges with mandates and booster mandates https://universitybusiness.com/state-by-state-look-at-colleges-requiring-vaccines/

At this time, the primary urgency was the booster mandate.

For those interested, see e.g. nocollegemandates.com

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A list of colleges with mandates and booster mandates https://universitybusiness.com/state-by-state-look-at-colleges-requiring-vaccines/

At this time, the primary urgency was the booster mandate.

For those interested, see e.g. nocollegemandates.com

https://nocollegemandates.com/

[Anonymous]

There is no need for a booster because the booster doesn't protect against Omicron. The regular vaccines do protect against severe illness.
I don't see what difference it makes if there's a vaccine mandate. The kids who are vaccinated won't get very sick if they get Omicron. DD's roommate got Omicron, and DD didn't get it, tested five times and always negative.
Covid is no longer a deadly disease. It's like the annual flu or a bad cold. Get vaccinated, but forget about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A list of colleges with mandates and booster mandates https://universitybusiness.com/state-by-state-look-at-colleges-requiring-vaccines/

At this time, the primary urgency was the booster mandate.

For those interested, see e.g. nocollegemandates.com

I don't see Utah there? University of Utah requires it, and also the booster. https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/update-to-vaccine-requirement-for-u-students/#:~:text=Students%20who%20attend%20the%20University,with%20the%20COVID%2D19%20requirement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no need for a booster because the booster doesn't protect against Omicron. The regular vaccines do protect against severe illness.
I don't see what difference it makes if there's a vaccine mandate. The kids who are vaccinated won't get very sick if they get Omicron. DD's roommate got Omicron, and DD didn't get it, tested five times and always negative.
Covid is no longer a deadly disease. It's like the annual flu or a bad cold. Get vaccinated, but forget about it.

This is false in so many aspects. The booster helps to prevent omicron and decreases chances of serious illness. Most hospitalized now (omicron age) are unvaccinated. The booster also helps mitigate the severity of other covid strains and decrease transmission. Covid cannot be dismissed like cold/flu. There are many factors: strain, individual risk factors, vaccination (including booster). Please don't make false assessments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What could go wrong, especially for students congregate living in dorms in the middle of a pandemic? I wonder if any schools will challenge this “opinion.” Seems outrageous given vaccination requirements for attendance are pretty standard.

https://richmond.com/news/local/education/miyares-colleges-cannot-legally-mandate-covid-vaccines-for-students/article_abcc47f6-b1c8-5c3b-a2ea-688f20dd9e30.html

It's 100% politics.

But don't worry. Covid is going away. If a few kids aren't vaccinated, so what? They may have natural immunity. They're young and won't die from Omicron or the next, milder variant, if they get it.

I think everyone should be vaccinated, but I oppose government mandates for the same reason I support legal abortion. I do not want the government to control what I do with my body.

But everyone get vaccinated!! There's no excuse not to!! The vaccines are safe and prevent death and severe illness from covid. It's idiotic not to get vaccinated!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no need for a booster because the booster doesn't protect against Omicron. The regular vaccines do protect against severe illness.
I don't see what difference it makes if there's a vaccine mandate. The kids who are vaccinated won't get very sick if they get Omicron. DD's roommate got Omicron, and DD didn't get it, tested five times and always negative.
Covid is no longer a deadly disease. It's like the annual flu or a bad cold. Get vaccinated, but forget about it.

This is false in so many aspects. The booster helps to prevent omicron and decreases chances of serious illness. Most hospitalized now (omicron age) are unvaccinated. The booster also helps mitigate the severity of other covid strains and decrease transmission. Covid cannot be dismissed like cold/flu. There are many factors: strain, individual risk factors, vaccination (including booster). Please don't make false assessments.

If you are so sure of your "facts" please post studies that prove this. Please.

I've read a lot of studies, and no, neither the current vaccines nor boosters protect you from infection with Omicron. My entire family and many of my friends and neighbors got Omicron, and all are vaccinated, and many are boosted.

It's true that the vaccines do prevent severe illness. And it's also true that most of the people hospitalized for covid are not vaccinated (morons!)

The boosters do increase antibody levels, but it's not clear that they add more protection from severe illness than the initial vaccines do. There is very scant evidence supporting boosters, but they were approved because of politics, not science.

[Anonymous]

The students will mostly be fine at the institutions which serve 18-25 year olds. Young people are low risk.

Faculty and adult learners are the ones who will take on more risk, since the 50+ age group has the highest risk of death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The students will mostly be fine at the institutions which serve 18-25 year olds. Young people are low risk.

Faculty and adult learners are the ones who will take on more risk, since the 50+ age group has the highest risk of death.

It’s also really disruptive to an institution to have COVID outbreaks Kong students and/or staff.

[Anonymous]

* among (not kong!)