If vaccines work, vaccinated people have no more reason to fear unvaccinated people than heterosexuals needed to fear AIDS from infected gays in the 1980s. If vaccines don’t work, then vaccinated people are as equally able as the unvaccinated to spread the disease.
Youngkin vowed to end “the use of inherently divisive concepts in public education,” and his second order seeks to “empower Virginia parents in their children’s education and upbringing by allowing parents to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school.”
About a dozen speakers including doctors, lawyers and pastors shared a stage Saturday at Ignite Church to discuss the populist pushback against COVID-related mandates, such as forced vaccination and continued public masking in some communities.
What the article says without ever daring to say it is that a few Republican governors and a ragtag “handful” of Americans are swimming against the current to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
There was never any interest in flattening any COVID-19 infection curves — flattening the Constitution, and human contentment, are the obvious intentions here. That is the real virus.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on private sector businesses, though it allowed a separate mandate to stand for certain health care workers.
Two separate venues in Montpelier and Williston are set to host the Vermont COVID Summit, a collection of expert doctors, lawyers and a clergy member who will speak on the state of COVID-19 and coronavirus-related mandates.
Most American small businesses say they oppose President Joe Biden’s employee vaccine mandate, and they say the rule will make it harder for them to find workers. Meanwhile thousands of federal employees will peacefully march in protest of the mandate.
Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine said Tuesday that the Health Department is aware that nearly half of New York’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have been hospital admissions from medical emergencies unrelated to the coronavirus, and that Vermont may have a similar glitch with its hospitalization statistics.
“We need to bridge the gap between where we are today and where things will be in the months ahead. That’s why we are partnering with the team at the National Institutes of Health to ‘test drive’ the effectiveness of this online ordering and home delivery model, while also surging thousands of tests into our communities.”
New bills would require informed consent prior to administration of any vaccine and prohibit discrimination based on vaccine status, but another would ban parents’ right to opt-out of any recommended vaccine for school based on religious or conscientious beliefs.
The lack of information seems an odd oversight, given that Vermont’s Covid-19 experience is often described by state officials as “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”