Covid Vaccine

[ZonaBurgh]

Masking up. Adults can make their own choice. If they want to mask up. That’s their choice. If they don’t thats their choice. Why it gets blown out of proportion is a question mark. I’ll comply with mask mandates if makes others feel at ease, but I don’t wear them aside from that.

This pretty much sums up my take on the masks. The only place still requiring them are my doctor's office and I willingly comply with my dirty piece of cloth.

While everyone has the right to wear a mask 24 hours a day if they wish, I don't see the reason, other than virtue signaling, wearing them outside in the grocery store parking lot or while driving alone, proves them to be less than intelligent or in fear for their lives, because the media told them they should be.

 

[MTC]

This pretty much sums up my take on the masks. The only place still requiring them are my doctor's office and I willingly comply with my dirty piece of cloth.

While everyone has the right to wear a mask 24 hours a day if they wish, I don't see the reason, other than virtue signaling, wearing them outside in the grocery store parking lot or while driving alone, proves them to be less than intelligent or in fear for their lives, because the media told them they should be.

Lol. I chuckle when I see the ones wearing them inside a vehicle

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Madness. We have descended into sheer madness. EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN should be up in arms (literally) to stop this insanity.

Yet I know 3 people here who likely are applauding, forgetting history, forgetting what direction we are moving.

Salt Lake City Tribune editorial calls for National Guard to keep unvaccinated people in their homes

The Salt Lake City Tribune editorial board called for the government to deploy the National Guard to prevent unvaccinated citizens from leaving their house.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Superman]

Covid cases 14.4%
Deaths 12.2%
Hospitalizations 12.3%
Vaccinations 24%

Joe Biden's USA! Joe Biden'sUSA! Joe Biden'sUSA!

FIFY

 

[Steeltime]

Well, then I apologize to you, OFTB. I meant it as a critique of the anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers & conspiracy theorists, who also happen to be the MAGA, gung-ho crowd. I can see why my post was wrong. I should have worded it differently. I'm sorry.

You keep repeating blatant lies, absolute factual misstatements that I have shown to you time after time. Russia collusion, Trump ordered protesters tear-gassed, MAGA crowd the ones refusing the shot. Lies - every goddamn one. Damn, man, I'm not asking you to be eidetic, but remember what I told you A MONTH AGO. For example:

Just 54% of African-Americans vaccinated.

Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity

KFF is collecting and analyzing data on COVID-19 vaccinations by race/ethnicity to gain increased insight who is receiving the vaccine and whether some groups are facing disparities in vaccination.

www.kff.org

So your theory is that the non-vaccinated African-Americans are the hidden MAGA crowd? Is that your theory?

Or maybe you are once again just wrong. So stop lying.

 

[MTC]

Madness. We have descended into sheer madness. EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN should be up in arms (literally) to stop this insanity.

Yet I know 3 people here who likely are applauding, forgetting history, forgetting what direction we are moving.

Salt Lake City Tribune editorial calls for National Guard to keep unvaccinated people in their homes

The Salt Lake City Tribune editorial board called for the government to deploy the National Guard to prevent unvaccinated citizens from leaving their house.

www.foxnews.com

That’s government overkill.
That’s how nazi germany came into power.

We give these politicians an inch they take a mile.

 

[Troglodyte]

LMAO!!!

In your attempts to argue that there is no difference between being hospitalized WITH Covid or BECAUSE OF Covid, you post an article...

Wait...I have to catch my breath.....

You go and post an article that says......****...LOL...hold on.....

You post an article where the doctor says that 80% of the patients admitted were admitted because OF Covid.....meaning 20% were admitted with Covid...not because of it.

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Thus making our argument for us. In THIS case, if we are to trust the doctors' words, 20% of their patients are WITH Covid. Walensky said "40 percent of people in the hospital who tested positive for the coronavirus did not come in for covid-related reasons."

God thank you. This may have made my whole weekend...

LMAO!

Idiot, re-read it. Slowly. 80% OF COVID WERE SPECIFICALLY ADMITTED FOR THE VIRUS.

You’re so fanatical in your delusion It’s preventing you from comprehending what you read.

 

[Troglodyte]

That’s government overkill.
That’s how nazi germany came into power.

We give these politicians an inch they take a mile.

Uh yeah, it was an op-Ed..

 

[Troglodyte]

Posted on Facebook about my kid getting Covid again, this time while vaxed so friends/family knew, but also to ask them "How many of the people that you know who have Covid would you say ar vaxed?"

One friend is a nurse. Her reply:

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83.3% of her patients this week in the Covid ward are vaccinated. Hospitalized.

But...the vaccines work.

Facebook. SMH

 

[Steeltime]

"These vaccines won't end. I bet the government will start ordering boosters to be qualified as 'fully vaccinated.'"

"Conspiracy theorist!!!"
- Floggy

'Fully vaccinated' for COVID? Now you need a booster to be 'up to date'

More colleges, companies and countries are requiring booster shots, and the CDC has replaced "fully vaccinated" with "up to date."

www.cnet.com

"I bet the government starts again with even MORE boosters because the shots don't work."

"Conspiracy theorist!!"
- Floggy

Israeli study shows 4th shot of COVID-19 vaccine less effective on Omicron

A fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine boosts antibodies to even higher levels than the third jab but it is not enough to prevent Omicron infections, according to a preliminary study in Israel.

www.reuters.com

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

LMAO!

Idiot, re-read it. Slowly. 80% OF COVID WERE SPECIFICALLY ADMITTED FOR THE VIRUS.

You’re so fanatical in your delusion It’s preventing you from comprehending what you read.

If this isn't the quintessential example that you are brain damaged, I don't know what is.

Slowly now....

We/I posted that Rochelle Walensky admitted that not ALL cases of Covid in hospitals were BECAUSE of Covid, that some were just WITH Covid.
I also posted Walensky's quote: "40 percent of people in the hospital who tested positive for the coronavirus did not come in for covid-related reasons."

Floggy: Nonsense! That's not what she's saying! Blah de blah de blah blah
Also Floggy: Posts an article from one hospital/doctor stating that 80% of their admissions are BECAUSE of Covid

You do realize that that doctor is admitting that 20% of their cases were people admitted WITH Covid? Not BECAUSE of Covid?

And you do realize that article CONFIRMS our argument and corroborates what Walensky is saying? That....

NOT ALL COVID CASES IN HOSPITALS ARE BECAUSE OF COVID?

How can you be this stupendously dense?

Also, I'll take her words this time. She's speaking overall, regarding the nation, when she admitted 40% of the hospitalized were there WITH Covid, not because of it.

Again, you lose.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Facebook. SMH

Well she's a real nurse that I personally know so...

You want to deny her observations? Feel free, it is what ideologues do.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Uh yeah, it was an op-Ed..

Which makes it less damaging how?

The Editors of the paper have the right not to run the OpEd. They chose to. To give it state-wide and now nation-wide air time.

And we know lemmings gobble this stuff up and say "Yeah great idea!" Doubt me? Look in the mirror.

And if you don't think this article is feeding into a Democrat frenzy that exists right now, then I have some ocean front property to sell you in Wyoming.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

In other news, General Mark Milley, triple vaxed, tested positive for Covid.

The vaccines work!

 

[Steeltime]

If this isn't the quintessential example that you are brain damaged, I don't know what is.

Slowly now....

We/I posted that Rochelle Walensky admitted that not ALL cases of Covid in hospitals were BECAUSE of Covid, that some were just WITH Covid.
I also posted Walensky's quote: "40 percent of people in the hospital who tested positive for the coronavirus did not come in for covid-related reasons."

Floggy: Nonsense! That's not what she's saying! Blah de blah de blah blah
Also Floggy: Posts an article from one hospital/doctor stating that 80% of their admissions are BECAUSE of Covid

You do realize that that doctor is admitting that 20% of their cases were people admitted WITH Covid? Not BECAUSE of Covid?

And you do realize that article CONFIRMS our argument and corroborates what Walensky is saying? That....

NOT ALL COVID CASES IN HOSPITALS ARE BECAUSE OF COVID?

How can you be this stupendously dense?

Also, I'll take her words this time. She's speaking overall, regarding the nation, when she admitted 40% of the hospitalized were there WITH Covid, not because of it.

Again, you lose.

"buT 80% are aDmiTTed Becuz Chinese fLu in OnE hOsPitaL sO tHaT MeeNZ 80% in All HoSpitAlz! I cAn SyTe aNoTHer BraZiLLioN eXgzamPLz!"
- Floggy

 

[Superman]

Facebook. SMH

just a page or so ago, your boy Tibbbs said to take his word for something.
you certainly didnt change your posture then, so why now, Ideologodyte

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Ouch.

Florida: Highest Rates of Infection Occurring in Counties with Highest Vaccination Rates​

Florida: Highest Rates of Infection Occurring in Counties with Highest Vaccination Rates - UncoverDC

In Florida, Highest Rates of Infection Occurring in Counties with Highest Vaccination Rates. Here are the Stats...

uncoverdc.com

The COVID infection rate for residents of Dade County, Florida Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 was 3,796 new “cases per 100,000 population”—a rate far higher than any other county in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Public Health. This is an eye-opening statistic as 94 percent of Dade County residents age five and over have now received at least one dose of the vaccine—a vaccination rate among the highest in the country and by far the highest rate in Florida.


If vaccines are indeed “effective” at preventing infection, one might expect residents of this county to have among the LOWEST rates of infection in the nation. Instead, the infection rate in Dade County was more than twice as high as the state average of 1,807.1 cases per 100,000 residents. In data updated this week (See pages 5-7), Dade County continued to lead the state by a wide margin with 3,217 cases per 100,000 compared to the new state average of 1,958/100k.

Indeed, an analysis of the past two weeks’ data shows that residents who live in Florida’s least vaccinated counties typically have the lowest rates of COVID infection. Among Florida counties that reported the lowest infection rates two weeks ago, the average vaccination rate was 48.6 percent compared to the state average of all Florida counties of 72 percent.

In general, Florida counties with the lowest vaccination rates had the lowest infection rates. The opposite was also true. The counties with the highest vaccination rates have recently experienced the highest infection rates.

While proponents of mandatory vaccines emphasize that vaccines are “effective” at preventing “severe cases and deaths,” months after “breakthrough cases” became omnipresent, the CDC website remains replete with references stating that vaccines are effective at preventing “cases” and “infections.” For example, language at CDC sites tells us…

“ … COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing most infections.”

“… The risk of infection remains much higher for unvaccinated than vaccinated people.”

“ … High vaccination coverage in a population reduces the spread of the virus and helps prevent new variants from emerging.”

The following analysis presents the rates of recent COVID infection in one American state on a county-by-county basis with vaccination rates included. Readers can make their own judgments as to why the most heavily vaccinated counties are having the largest rates of outbreaks or why counties with the lowest-vaccination rates are NOT leading the state in “new cases.”

Highest Rates of Infection in Florida per County Jan. 6 – 13th​

The following data shows the Florida counties that had an infection rate of 2,000 or more cases per 100,000 population in the past week. Note: State-wide, 72 percent of Floridians age five and older have been vaccinated. The “infection rate” for the entire state this past week was 1958 cases/100k population.

County (Percent Vaccinated 5+): Cases per 100,000 population

Dade (94 percent): 3,217/100k

Broward (82 percent): 2,453/100k

Alachua (69 percent): 2,392/100k

Madison (51 percent): 2,239/100k

Osceola (80 percent): 2222/100k

Monroe (82 percent): 2,154/100k

Orange: (75 percent): 2,114/100k

Polk (65 percent): 2064/100k

Hendry (58 percent): 2060/100k

Jefferson (56 percent): 2029/100k

Highest Infection Rates by County Dec. 31 – Jan. 6

The NEGATIVE correlation between vaccination rates and “cases per 100,000” was even more striking the prior week (Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 report*). Note: The “Cases per 100,000” average for the week of Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 was 1807/100k.

County (Percent vaccinated 5+): Cases per 100,000

Dade (93 percent): 3,797/100k

Broward (82 percent): 2,560/100k

Monroe (82 perent): 2,272/100k

Osceola (80 percent): 2014/100k

Palm Beach (74 percent): 1,963/100k

Orange: (74 percent): 1,917/100k

Counties Under 50 Percent Vaccination in Florida—Recent Infection Rates…

Florida has 14 counties where fewer than 50 percent of the county’s population (age 5+) is vaccinated. Here are those counties with their infection rates per 100,000 population this past week (Jan. 7 – Jan. 13).

No Florida county with a vaccination rate under 50 percent experienced “case rates” equal to or above the state average for the week (1,958 cases per 100,000 population):

County (Percent vaccinated 5+): Cases per 100,000 population

Holmes (32 percent): 1677/100k

Liberty (37 percent): 1731/100k

Calhoun (38 percent): 973/100k

Hamilton (38 percent): 1509/100k

Suwanee (40 percent): 1357/100k

Washington (40 percent): 1720/100k

Dixie (41 percent): 1081/100k

Gilchrist (43 percent): 1103/100k

Lafayette (44 percent): 966/100k

Taylor (45 percent): 1586/100k

Jackson (46 percent): 1551/100k

Hardee (47 percent): 1940/100k

Columbia (47 percent): 1647/100k

Bradford (48 percent): 1353/100k

Florida Counties with Lowest Infection Rates​

Of the 18 counties with the lowest infection rates in Florida last week, 14 had lower vaccination rates than the state average of 72 percent. The average infection rate (“cases per 100,000 population”) for all Florida residents was 1,958.1/100,000 of the population.

County (Percent vaccinated 5+): Infection rate per 100,000

Glades (53 percent): 790/100k

Sumter (76 percent): 913/100k

Lafayette (44 percent): 966/100k

Calhoun (38 percent): 973/100k

Lafayette (44 percent): 966/100k

Dixie (41 percent): 1081/100k.

Charlotte (74 percent): 1101/100k

Gilchrist (43 percent): 1103/100k

Walton (58 percent): 1200/100k

Flagler (69 percent): 1259/100k

St. Johns (73 percent): 1274/100k

Nassau (63 percent): 1337/100k

Manatee (68 percent): 1337/100k

Hernando (60 percent): 1339/100k

Bradford (48 percent): 1353/100k

Suwanee (40 percent): 1357/100k

Collier (76 percent): 1369/100k

Desota (58 percent): 1384/100k

 

[JMM]

"These vaccines won't end. I bet the government will start ordering boosters to be qualified as 'fully vaccinated.'"

"Conspiracy theorist!!!"
- Floggy

'Fully vaccinated' for COVID? Now you need a booster to be 'up to date'

More colleges, companies and countries are requiring booster shots, and the CDC has replaced "fully vaccinated" with "up to date."

www.cnet.com

"I bet the government starts again with even MORE boosters because the shots don't work."

"Conspiracy theorist!!"
- Floggy

Israeli study shows 4th shot of COVID-19 vaccine less effective on Omicron

A fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine boosts antibodies to even higher levels than the third jab but it is not enough to prevent Omicron infections, according to a preliminary study in Israel.

www.reuters.com

Wondering if perhaps we should have a constant IV drip of the vaccine to make sure we are safe. One will only need to show their employer, mass transit authority figures and National Guard members their IV bag to verify compliance.

Fresh IV bags along with testing kits and N95s can be picked up free of charge at your local CVS, Walgreens and 7-11.

 

[Steeltime]

Florida: Highest Rates of Infection Occurring in Counties with Highest Vaccination Rates

Florida: Highest Rates of Infection Occurring in Counties with Highest Vaccination Rates - UncoverDC

In Florida, Highest Rates of Infection Occurring in Counties with Highest Vaccination Rates. Here are the Stats...

uncoverdc.com

"SeE! tHe vAxcEEnz WoRK!"
- Floggy

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Mask up the kids they said. Everything's safe they said.

Palm Beach therapist sees increase in children's speech delays during COVID-19

Therapists say they are seeing children with speech delays with the use of face masks to slow the spread of COVID-19.

www.wpbf.com

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Isn't it funny just how stricken soccer players have become with heart related injuries and deaths?

Vaccines: The Leading Cause of Coincidence.

Fully Vaccinated Canadian Soccer Star Alphonso Davies Sidelined With Myocarditis | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

LOL. The "doctors" that wrote a letter asking to censor Joe Rogan are not....doctors.

'270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors

Only a handful are practicing physicians.

dossier.substack.com

 

[IndySteel]

Isn't it funny just how stricken soccer players have become with heart related injuries and deaths?

Vaccines: The Leading Cause of Coincidence.

Fully Vaccinated Canadian Soccer Star Alphonso Davies Sidelined With Myocarditis | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

I listened to the Rogan interview with Dr. Robert Malone and he discusses that. It’s an amazing interview. Everyone should hear it, even those of us who have had our eyes open since the beginning of this bullshit plandemic.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Holy Mother of Pearl. Students at the University of Chicago - one of the most prestigious universities in America - penned the best anti-vaxx, anit-mandate letter...ever.

Editorial: UChicago Must End Its Booster Mandate—We Are Not Lab Rats​

UChicago continues to defy scientific and moral standards, dehumanizing us in the process.​

Editorial: UChicago Must End Its Booster Mandate—We Are Not Lab Rats

Per the University of Chicago’s newly announced booster mandate, all students and employees must obtain a booster shot by January

thechicagothinker.com

Per the University of Chicago’s newly announced booster mandate, all students and employees must obtain a booster shot by January 24. Those who do not comply will be barred from campus and restricted from attending in-person classes, among other activities.

This booster mandate is demonstrably unsafe, ineffective, unnecessary, inconsistent, and unethical. We’ve struggled beneath UChicago’s draconian COVID decrees for years, but the university’s booster mandate reaches a new height of absurdity.

UChicago Demands We Submit to Experimental Shots​

UChicago claims to rely upon “expert” opinion in structuring its COVID regime. Yet, even advisory committees at the FDA and CDC initially declined to recommend the COVID booster for those under the age of 65.

The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee made an official recommendation to approve Pfizer’s application for boosters only for those 65 and older and certain high-risk populations after rejecting, in a 16-2 vote, Pfizer’s application for broader approval for the general population. The committee cited a lack of data on potential adverse effects, particularly the risks of developing myocarditis and pericarditis.

However, the FDA chose to cast aside this concern and granted “approval” anyways. But even this “approval” is itself questionable. The FDA only granted approval to Comirnaty, a legally distinct version of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine that isn’t actually available in the United States. The version of the vaccine currently available in the US remains under Emergency Use Authorization, not formal approval.

Similarly, the CDC’s initial recommendation that Americans under the age of 65 receive boosters was made against the counsel of its own Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which voted to recommend boosters only for those over the age of 65 or who have underlying conditions. Director Rochelle Walensky overruled this vote in an unusual departure from agency protocol. The committee later reversed course, recommending a booster for 12-17 year olds. But the calculus behind its sudden 180-degree turn remains unclear, given that the initial concerns regarding myocarditis and pericarditis remain unresolved.

Vaccine-induced heart issues merit legitimate concern, especially for young males. A recent Danish study found that “pharmacovigilance reports, health system surveillance studies, and case series suggest an association between SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and myocarditis and myopericarditis. This association is thought to occur particularly after the second booster dose of mRNA vaccines BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna).” An analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine reached similar conclusions, particularly in males between the ages of 12 and 29.

Meanwhile, a new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology found a positive association between COVID vaccination and increased menstrual cycle length.

According to Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, “Nobody expected [the COVID vaccine] to affect the menstrual system, because the information wasn’t being collected in the early vaccine studies.” The study’s authors note that “questions remain about other possible changes in menstrual cycles, such as menstrual symptoms, unscheduled bleeding, and changes in the quality and quantity of menstrual bleeding.”

Ironically, despite the speed with which the vaccine and booster have been infallibly declared “safe and effective” in disregard for potential long-term risks, the FDA is in no such rush to release its data on the vaccine.

According to the FDA’s statement on expanding eligibility for boosters to individuals 18 years of age and older, “Both Pfizer and Moderna are conducting post-authorization/post-marketing studies to assess known serious risks of myocarditis and pericarditis.” However, a post-authorization study is useless if everyone has already been boosted 50 times by the time the study is complete.

The Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT) filed a formal request to the FDA for the expedited release of all data on the Pfizer vaccine under the Freedom of Information Act. Members of PHMPT include well-established professors in the relevant fields from Yale, Brown, University of Maryland, UCLA, and other universities. The FDA denied this request, arguing the absence of a “compelling need.”

In fact, the FDA requested that a federal judge grant it until the year 2076 to release Pfizer’s data on the COVID vaccine, before it was recently ordered to release it all in eight months.

Despite the lack of transparency, and the booster’s observed and potential adverse health effects, UChicago forces its students and employees to accept its cost-benefit analysis: that the booster is “preferable” to the risk of contracting COVID while unboosted. In so doing, our anti-science university unsafely denies us the right to evaluate the cost-benefit analysis for ourselves.

To be continued...​

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Continued from above...

Don’t Be Fooled! It’s Not Just One More Jab ​

If being “boosted” becomes a prerequisite for participation in normal life, the vaccine’s diminishing efficacy means the booster campaign will never end.

Comprehensive evidence suggests that the level of vaccination does not have a positive influence on lowering COVID cases. On these very lines, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky contended in August that vaccines no longer prevent transmission, despite confident promises she and many of her fellow “experts” previously made to the contrary.

Moreover, the original vaccine regime has proven ineffective over time, with another Israeli study showing that effectiveness declined from 95% in January to a mere 39% in June.

When first introduced, the boosters were posited as a way to rebuild the vaccine’s effectiveness. Yet, the COVID booster contains the same formula as the original, ineffective vaccinations, which means it, too, loses efficacy.

To this point, Cornell, which currently has both a mask and vaccine requirement, and a 97% on-campus vaccination rate, recently experienced a surge of COVID cases. In response, the administration declared an “Alert Level Red” zone, moved exams online, and shut down the campus. Out of the 930 confirmed cases, “Virtually every case of the Omicron variant to date has been found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot,” Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina stated.

If UChicago is planning to mandate recurring boosters (which is the only logical conclusion of its present decrees), then it should just own up and admit it immediately, rather than continue to deceive students with the false impression that these measures are temporary.

We Will Not Play Pretend—COVID Is Not the Plague​

Mandates for the COVID vaccine and booster are unnecessary to protect the health of the UChicago community.

COVID has a survival rate of over 99.87% for individuals under the age of 65.

According to the CDC, only 5% of “COVID deaths” are solely attributable to COVID as the cause. The other 95% of “COVID deaths” involve, on average, almost 4 additional conditions (comorbidities) or causes per death.

We will not play pretend by accepting our university’s gross exaggerations of the public health risks of catching and transmitting COVID. We will not live in fear.

UChicago Ignores Natural Immunity​

If slowing the spread of this glorified flu were the goal, UChicago would recognize natural immunity as a robust protection against reinfection—but it doesn’t.

As it stands, UChicago’s vaccine requirement cannot be satisfied with proof of T-cell immunity or a positive antibody or antigen test. This is unreasonable, as those who have been vaccinated not only have increased risk for infection, but an increased risk for symptomatic infection, in comparison to those possessing natural immunity.

This is made clear by a recent Israeli study, which “demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.”

UChicago’s continued refusal to acknowledge natural immunity leads to only one conclusion: our university does not care about science, but only uses “science” as a guise for mandating recurring injections.

No, You Didn’t Misread: Doctors and Scientists Are Exempt (Read the Fine Print)​

The Chicago Thinker recently confirmed that the university exempts University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) employees from the booster mandate, precisely because a significant number of doctors will resign if forced to get the jab. The university admitted to the Thinker that its UCMC exemption is an attempt to maintain medical staff, since presumably a significant number of UCMC’s 9,000-plus employees will resign if beholden to a booster mandate.

UChicago also exempts clinically active faculty and staff within its Biological Sciences Division (BSD) from its booster mandate, presumably for the same reason.

The lessons here are manifold.

First, UChicago is much less immune to protest than it pretends. If we speak out loudly now, we might just accomplish something.

Second, “the science” isn’t what the university claims and it’s actually bad business to pretend otherwise.

Consider that the UCMC’s total staff is larger than the total undergraduate population at UChicago. If our university truly believes the COVID booster is necessary to save lives, why are UCMC staff—who are arguably most at risk for catching and spreading the coronavirus—exempt from the booster mandate? The answer is clear: even the university itself doesn’t believe “the risks” posed by un-boostered employees outweigh the costs of losing crucial personnel.

Rather than allow all UChicago community members to engage in a cost-benefit analysis of our own, the university deceptively exploits tuition payers, in addition to countless employees, by forcing us to get the booster. Meanwhile, UChicago’s world-renowned medical health professionals and scientists get to live quietly by a different set of rules.

Moreover, the UCMC and BSD include some of the country’s top doctors and scientists, including experts in immunology. Take that in: Those who know the most about the booster are refusing to get it. What do these experts know about the booster that we don’t? And if they’re refusing to inject themselves with the booster, how is it remotely ethical to force us to inject ourselves? It’s not.

UChicago’s COVID caste system prioritizes the health and freedoms of a chosen few, while trampling on the rest. University instructors and tenured faculty members, University of Chicago police officers, dining hall workers, and twenty-something-year-old college students are all being coerced into getting the booster, but not doctors and select, “special” scientists.

Obviously, we need instructors in order to learn. Three UChicago community members were shot to death in Chicago in 2021 alone, so, clearly, we also need police officers to defend our community. Yet, by imposing such a discriminatory mandate, our university wrongly suggests some lives are more valuable than others. Or, at the very least, it shows it cares more about maintaining doctors and select scientists than professors and police officers, among others.

To be clear, we’re not calling for the UCMC and BSD to implement a booster requirement, but we do condemn UChicago for unethically discriminating against its employees and students. We’d expect such behavior from a Soviet committee, not a prestigious university purportedly dedicated to the production of knowledge in a free country.

To be continued...​