Covid vax mandates over for Fed employees; time for all colleges to end them as well

[Anonymous]

Here is the WH press release:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/01/the-biden-administration-will-end-covid-19-vaccination-requirements-for-federal-employees-contractors-international-travelers-head-start-educators-and-cms-certified-facilities/?fbclid=IwAR1oPBRzEDkt3s7vex1PZrj8eQxqYZzbA-SOYpC1J7pL0WjGtp95cjNkT5k

[Anonymous]

Ha I agree! I just got an email from my employer (large university) telling me that I need to submit my proof of vaccination- even though I am only teaching online for summer. SMH

[Anonymous]

International travelers no longer need vaccination. But 18 year old college students have to get boosted? Wtf

[Anonymous]

Not many 18 y/o are opposed to the vaccine. Their parents may be, but that’s very different

[Anonymous]

Educated people want to get vaccinated. The effects of Long Covid are still not known, but the most recent studies indicated that heart issues associated with COVID are far worse than any perceived heart issues associated with the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

No indoctrinated people want to get boosters. Fact getting the vaccine and/or booster does not prevent COVID, so also will not prevent the effects of long COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Educated people want to get vaccinated. The effects of Long Covid are still not known, but the most recent studies indicated that heart issues associated with COVID are far worse than any perceived heart issues associated with the vaccine.

Yep. There's someone in my circle with long covid and it has totally diminished their quality of life. I can't imagine anyone who knows someone with it thinking they'll just take their chances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the WH press release:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/01/the-biden-administration-will-end-covid-19-vaccination-requirements-for-federal-employees-contractors-international-travelers-head-start-educators-and-cms-certified-facilities/?fbclid=IwAR1oPBRzEDkt3s7vex1PZrj8eQxqYZzbA-SOYpC1J7pL0WjGtp95cjNkT5k

Why are you still harping on this? LOTS of schools and institutions require lots of things in the way of medical restrictions/requirements.

Quit politicizing Covid. It's tiresome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No indoctrinated people want to get boosters. Fact getting the vaccine and/or booster does not prevent COVID, so also will not prevent the effects of long COVID.

No one is interested in your Google Degree in Epidemiology or Public Health. StFU. Go away. Stop putting forth "facts" you pulled out of your a$$. Stop politicizing something that killed a lot of people, including some of my family members. It's grotesque. And offensive.

[Anonymous]

Don’t want to get vaxed, then u are few to choose a college that does not require it. It’s rather simple

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not many 18 y/o are opposed to the vaccine. Their parents may be, but that’s very different

That's great, because no one will ban them from getting vaccinated if they want to.

There's no real reason to require vaccination of a group that is essentially at zero risk from covid, especially since the vaccine doesn't seem to have any effect on transmission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not many 18 y/o are opposed to the vaccine. Their parents may be, but that’s very different

That's great, because no one will ban them from getting vaccinated if they want to.

There's no real reason to require vaccination of a group that is essentially at zero risk from covid, especially since the vaccine doesn't seem to have any effect on transmission.

Not to mention absolutely no one in America is now required, including visitors, except some college students. Completely unfair to target them and them only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t want to get vaxed, then u are few to choose a college that does not require it. It’s rather simple

You are free to jump in the Potomac River. It’s rather simple.

[Anonymous]

Colleges have always had vaccination requirements for communicable diseases. I went back for grad school after time away and they asked for proof of my chicken pox vaccine. I had chicken pox, I had to have a blood titer to prove I didn’t need the vaccine. I did get the meningitis vaccine. I think the covid vaccine will live on at universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges have always had vaccination requirements for communicable diseases. I went back for grad school after time away and they asked for proof of my chicken pox vaccine. I had chicken pox, I had to have a blood titer to prove I didn’t need the vaccine. I did get the meningitis vaccine. I think the covid vaccine will live on at universities.

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There's a difference between requirements when a large group of people are living together than just working somewhere. Colleges have long had stricter vaccine requirements of all sorts to avoid outbreaks that overwhelm their health services.