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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What isn't quite clear on here are the reasons for folks' objections to following the rules of the colleges of their choice.  Aside from individual cases of things like allergies to vaccine components, do people's objections stem from:

- personal freedom (being given medical / physical rules to follow that one does not agree with)
- medical aversion (concerns about the vaccine itself and its long-term or short-term effects)
- perceived governmental misapplication (CDC guidance transforming into college policies in comparison or conflict with local governments' own rules)
- something else

One thing it is unlikely to be is insufficient access: there are plenty of things that we all do that require a lot more time, effort, and discomfort than the immediate transaction part of getting an immunization that is so widely available, and colleges that require it will be glad to point people towards locations where appointments can be made.[/quote]
Perhaps each has different reasons. One might even say &quot;all of the above.&quot;

- Personal autonomy: medical ethics require that a mandate both benefit the person against severe disease [i]and[/i] prevent transmission. Accordingly, college booster mandates are contrary to medical ethics. Why should colleges be exempt from medical ethics?
- Many young adults had worse side effects from the initial doses than from covid itself - which they have had - seroprevalence estimates are very high, well north of 70%.
- govt misapplication might be one way to put it, inappropriate language coming from CDC Director's mouth is literally the only reason colleges have mandated boosters, as she did not do so based on data and indeed went against her own committee's recommendation to limit boosters to &gt;50. (There is no benefit against severe disease for students, there was no hosp/death in the adult booster trial, etc etc.) The [i]top FDA vaccine experts[/i], Gruber and Krause, each with decades of experience leading the FDA on vaccines, [i]resigned[/i] over the booster issue, with the White House demanding that all adults be eligible for boosters last fall; that scandal was briefly covered in NYT but did not garner the level of scrutiny that it should have at the time. To top it off, yesterday, the President managed to admit that CDC was doing his political will.

My child is among those who have had multiple cardiology evaluations and other medical issues since getting the initial series. Not getting a booster, zero benefit, only risk of worsening the medical situation. College is refusing all non-allergy exemptions. Will likely have to transfer schools unless the booster mandate is lifted, which is time and money. We can afford to waste that kind of money, but many students cannot, their college plans financed on a shoestring, with limited options.

No college student is avoiding boosters simply because they're &quot;a snowflake afraid of a needle,&quot; as a PP was suggesting. Please. Getting the booster would certainly be the simpler route. Requiring boosters for enrollment is not an ethical practice.[/quote]

Great response.  Unfortunately many in this country find it perfectly acceptable to pitch ethics to the side when it meets their political narrative.  [/quote]

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