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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: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:54PM (1 child)
The people who get vaccinated, which appear to be the vast majority, are the ones who should not have to stay home. That's the whole reason to get vaccinated.
Anyone who stays home and isolates seems to be someone who isn't in great need of vaccination, since they have either eliminated or severely reduced their exposure.
People getting vaccinated are doing so for the purpose of being able to go out again.
So in what possible way does it make sense for unvaccinated people go to out and vaccinated people to stay home?
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @06:44PM
You again miss the most obvious issue here - liberty. How people are going to evaluate the pros and cons of the vaccines is going to vary radically, even when they have the exact same mindset on it. For instance COVID for those under the age of 65 is basically harmless in terms of mortality. The vaccines, by contrast, have already shown themselves to have a surprising and lethal short term side effect. And what are the long-term side effects? Well nobody will knows for what may be years, if there are any.
So for a person of advanced age, vaccine is bordering a no-brainer. COVID is fairly dangerous, the vaccines seem safe 'enough', and any potential long-term side effects have relatively relevance to you. But for a young and healthy person? COVID is not much of a danger, and so participating in the vaccine experiment does not really offer them much. Even if they believe the risk of negative effects of the vaccine are low, this is contrasted against the fact that the risks from COVID are not only low - but there is also they possibility that they may never catch it, and if they do catch it - they would most likely be asymptomatic anyhow.
How you personally measure and evaluate the pros and cons will lead you to a personal decision. And in free states you now have the *liberty* to execute that decision. Want to get vaccinated? Want to go out in public? Want to do both, neither, or any combination of such? You have the liberty to do so. In authoritarian states, the government tells you what to do and you must obey, or they will resort to force. As I expect you an older person, you would probably prefer the authoritarian choice because it aligns with your own interests. COVID vaccination does not prevent spread, though it does help to reduce it. And so because vaccination is in your interests, you presumably want to do everything you can to force everybody else to be vaccinated. But in my opinion, such a worldview is myopic. You will rapidly change your tune when you find the same authoritarian systems carry out actions where you are the one who ends up being harmed.