Reply to Mandatory vaccines for teachers/staff and eligible students

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Mandatory vaccines for teachers/staff and eligible students"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Funny how the coronavirus epidemic is supposedly serious enough to cancel school for a year and a half, but not serious enough to require teachers to get vaccinated. [/quote]

As of today, they are required to either get vaccinated or get tested weekly. [b]Realistically, we can't get better than that. A few posters who apparently have authoritarian tendencies think you can bludgeon people into compliance, but it just doesn't work that way.[/b]
[/quote]

This is just wrong.

Vaccines have been freely available for months and yet a huge share of adults still aren't vaccinated (the vaccination rate in Ward 8 is 24 percent, which is lower than it is in Mississippi). It's probably safe to assume that by now that the vast majority of people who still aren't vaccinated have decided that they aren't ever going to get vaccinated.

That's why everyone from the White House to the city of New York to the NFL is considering much more drastic measures to get people vaccinated. If we don't crank up the pressure, the mutations of the virus will get ever more dangerous and the pandemic will never end. Wearing a mask and just hoping that it eventually ends is not going to solve anything.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccines-delta/2021/08/05/4359ac76-f567-11eb-a49b-d96f2dac0942_story.html[/quote]

You are having trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality. In your fantasy world, you just have to snap your fingers and everyone complies. In reality, a lot of people don't really care what you do with your fingers. If the Mayor simply told employees that they either had to get vaccinated or be fired, there would be an immediate court challenge. The order would be put on hold while the issue was adjudicated, and we would be no better off than we were yesterday. Your idea that Bowser could use dictatorial powers ignores the realty that Bowser is not a dictator.

But, recognizing that any mandate had to include medical or religious exemptions, and by working with the unions, the Mayor achieved the best result that we were ever going to get (at least in a reasonable time frame). Employees can have all the objections to vaccines that they want to. They can believe that vaccines turn them into zombies (apparently one theory going around). But, they then have to be tested weekly. I predict that it won't be too many weeks before that gets old and vaccines don't look so bad. But, regardless, most will get vaccinated and the rest will be tested. All around, not a bad result. [/quote]

Governments, from the president down to mayors, are going to take increasingly coercive measures to force people to get vaccinated. It's already happening elsewhere, and it's only a matter of time before it comes to D.C. as well. Bowser is a mayor who leads from behind -- once lots of other political leaders do something, then she will find the courage to copy whatever they decide. [/quote]

What does that have to do with this topic? The agreement announced today is the agreement we are getting. You can ramble on about irrelevant topics all you want but that's not going to change.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics