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US colleges will require students to be vaccinated, despite state policies:
A growing number of US colleges have said all students must be fully vaccinated before returning to campus, in a move likely to anger some state governors. At least 14 colleges have said vaccination will be required so far, according to a CNN tally, and that number is expected to grow.
In late March Rutgers University became one of the first institutions to declare that having all students vaccinated will allow for an "expedited return to pre-pandemic normal."
Cornell, Brown, Notre Dame, Northeastern, Syracuse, Ithaca and Fort Lewis have made similar announcements, though all will make exceptions for medical or religious reasons. Cornell has also created an online registration tool so students and staff can register their vaccination status.
Two colleges, St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, and Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Broward, Florida, have gone a step further, requiring students and all campus employees to be vaccinated.
NSU's policy puts it on a collision course with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. After NSU's announcement on April 1 DeSantis signed an executive order stating that vaccines are available but not mandated. Crucially the order prohibits any government entity or business from requiring a vaccine passport. NSU said Thursday that it is reviewing the executive order.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Monday April 12 2021, @02:28PM (8 children)
And, from another point of view, the ones who are most violently opposed to the gummint telling them what to do, and even willing to take up arms to oppose it as they constantly remind us, are quite happy when it's the gummint telling others what to do. Will they take up arms to defend the colleges' right to require vaccinations?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @02:35PM (5 children)
As soon as said colleges stop taking government money?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 12 2021, @02:40PM (4 children)
Education is worth doing.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Oh, wait. I think we already are trying it.
How about the government working to, or helping others to make education affordable so it might be unnecessary to require government money.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @02:44PM (3 children)
And won't it be downright hilarious when ignorance turns out to work better than the current brand of education, in the end?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @06:01PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @07:35PM
"current brand of education"
I see someone gets their talking points from rightwing pundits that prefer having you remain stupid and easily manipulated. Have you tried Joe Rogan? It is GOOP for men!
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anti-aristarchus on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:40AM
Exhibit A: The Minty Buzzard
Exhibit B: the Ignorant Hillbilly Runaway.
This is the fantasy associated with the Dunning-Kreuger Effect, the idea that Stupidity and Ignorance, and Trump, are just as good as education, scholarship, knowledge, and wisdom. But that is the Effect: they are not. Stupidity is stupid, ignorance produces Runaway1956's, and The Buzzard, not so Mighty, when you look at what he claims is true, with his limited intellect.
Not to say that Ignorance is not sometimes the best policy. But choosing ignorance, in total ignorance, never works out for anyone. Careful, AC!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Tork on Monday April 12 2021, @06:42PM
Hmm well it's hard to say. They did get their guns out over haircuts during a pandemic... but not when police murdered unarmed people. It's a flip of the coin, I reckon.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @09:58PM
You mean the ones who have been trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies for decades, the ones who currently have sponsored almost 200 state laws meant to interfere and prevent transgendered people from getting healthcare, but who are also the ones crying "you can't tell me what to do with my body!"??
The republican party is one big group of the whiniest pussies in history. The kind of kid who screams and bullies the loudest, but the slightest rebuttal sends them crying home to mommy. Following all the nasty invectives, remember how shocked and butthurt they were when they were called a basket of deplorables? The outrage! Mommy, they are so mean! They are nothing but a huge group of two year olds complete with all the accompanying Karen tantrums when told they can't have their way. I've never seen such a group so scared of EVERYTHING that they're now sheltering with the white nationalists because they need anyone who will tell them that they'll protect them from all the big scary monsters out there. Liz Cheney has more integrity and, yes, BALLS, than almost every other republican in Washington, and that is a really sad statement when she is the one who is seen as the outcast for being too "centrist."