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Obviously. Adding puzzle pieces goes with filling out the puzzle aka learning. This needs to be explicitly stated? Done.
This is why we all should be here.
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6:34 PM · Feb 7, 2024
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/harvard-renews-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-joining-69-other-schools
Harvard Renews COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Joining 69 Other Schools
Students at Harvard University will continue to be required to take the COVID-19 vaccine in order to register for the upcoming semester, the school has recently announced, joining 69 other schools around the country that still require the shot.
“Harvard requires all students who will be on campus to have some protection from COVID-19 through vaccination,” reads a statement posted by the school. “This may be through the initial primary series of COVID-19 vaccination or one of the most recent COVID-19 boosters.”
Students who fail to show approved documentation will be unable to sign up for classes, with the website warning that should they “fall out of compliance at any time for any of the required immunizations, registration holds will be automatically applied.”
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a practitioner in Texas and founder of Coalition of Health Freedom, told The Epoch Times that the COVID-19 vaccine is ineffective, but mandating medical procedures violates the student’s constitutionally protected rights.
“I am deeply concerned that a university once considered the best in the nation has adopted a policy that completely disregards the data showing the COVID shots do not prevent transmission,” said Dr. Bowden.
“Further, mandating the COVID shots violates human rights and discriminates against its students by setting rules that only apply to them, but not the entire campus.“
While students are required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, it is recommended but not mandated for the school’s faculty members or staff, according to Harvard University Health Services (HUHS).
“HUHS no longer requires employees to submit COVID-19 vaccine documentation,” the website states. “As we work to continue the high levels of vaccination needed to protect our community, Harvard highly recommends being up-to-date per the CDC definition for all Harvard community members, including faculty, students, staff, and researchers, who will have any on-campus presence.”
Government officials began pressuring schools to push students to get the vaccine almost immediately after it hit the market.
In 2021, Jerome Adams, the Surgeon General at the time, urged schools to mandate the COVID-19 shot in an “Open Letter to Leaders in Higher Education.” Mr. James said he was “asking leaders to take strong steps to get as close as possible to 100 percent of their students, faculty and staff vaccinated early in the academic year.”
The letter continued that for “all colleges and universities, we also encourage steps to make vaccination easy. Set up pop-up vaccine clinics to meet students as they return to campus, including move-in, orientation, football games and tailgates, and at student life events. Offer paid leave for staff and faculty to get vaccinated and in the event of side effects. Engage with your student leaders to get word out about vaccination to other students. … Peer-to-peer engagement is one of the best ways to achieve behavior change in young adults.”
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However, the past two years have seen the COVID-19 vaccines become mired in controversy. The original COVID-19 vaccines were taken by more than 80 percent of Americans after officials pledged that the shots would effectively prevent contraction and stop the spread of the disease.
However, once it was revealed that the shots didn’t work as promised, interest in the subsequent booster decreased dramatically.
Vaccines could also be attributed to widespread reports of adverse health outcomes believed to have been caused by the shots. COVID-19 vaccines have been named the primary suspect in over 1.5 million adverse event reports, according to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database. The numbers could be even higher. An FDA-funded study out of Harvard found that VAERS cases represent fewer than 1 percent of vaccine adverse events.
Despite the controversy, COVID-19 vaccine mandates continue to be in effect for students at 70 (including Harvard) out of the top 800 colleges in the United States, according to recent data acquired by No College Mandates. This organization describes itself as a “group of concerned parents, doctors, nurses, professors, students and other college stakeholders working towards the common goal of ending COVID-19 vaccine mandates.”
Lucia Sinatra, co-founder of No College Mandates, told The Epoch Times that the evidence shows that institutions of higher learning have turned their back on the scientific method.
“I can’t see how they can continue to justify a student-only mandate policy in the name of keeping the community safe,” said Ms. Sinatra. “There are such blinders on preventing any sort of open debate on what the actual data is showing that it is literally mind-blowing.
“It’s idiotic, and history will not reflect kindly on these elite institutions,” added Ms. Sinatra.
Dr. Bowden says momentum is growing, with over 17,000 physicians and scientists calling for COVID-19 shots to be pulled off the market.
However, to end the mandates would take a change in political leadership, according to Dr. Bowden, who helped form a political action committee—Americans for Health Freedom—dedicated to funding campaigns that support that cause.
“The pandemic was a stress test to our constitution, and we need our elected officials to step in and protect the people who elected them,” said Dr. Bowden. “Americans for Health Freedom is working to educate the public and support politicians who will fight for medical freedom.”
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#DYK? More than half of all infections that people can get can be spread by animals.
It is great to see work to advance disease surveillance & create prevention strategies to reduce illness and death in people and animals. #OneHealth
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CDC leaders visited Orussey Market, Cambodia’s largest live bird market and a critical place to detect emerging viral threats in animals and prevent the spread to people. By building and strengthening #OneHealth systems, we can prevent and contain outbreaks at the source.
5:13 PM · Feb 8, 2024
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Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH
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CDC leaders visited Orussey Market, Cambodia’s largest live bird market and a critical place to detect emerging viral threats in animals and prevent the spread to people. By building and strengthening #OneHealth systems, we can prevent and contain outbreaks at the source.
4:37 PM · Feb 8, 2024
https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1755722559310397485
https://twitter.com/j_fishback/status/1755212359507804635
James Fishback
@j_fishback
You can't make this up. The National Speech & Debate Assoc. ELIMINATED a high school debate topic about civil disobedience because it "was putting new students in a position to argue or listen to arguments that are not aligned with their own beliefs about issues of social equity and justice…"
Woke idiots. This is exactly why I started
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6:50 AM · Feb 7, 2024
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-prof-suspended-after-refusing-lenient-grading-for-black-students-demands-19-million-plus-in-damages/
UCLA prof suspended after refusing lenient grading for black students demands $19 million-plus in damages
A professor who sued UCLA after he was suspended in the wake of the George Floyd-Black Lives Matter riots after refusing a request to grade black students leniently will soon get his day in court.
UCLA accounting lecturer Gordon Klein is demanding well over $19 million in damages in a lawsuit scheduled to go to trial March 4 in a Santa Monica courthouse.
The two sides have engaged in legal wrangling since September 2021, when Klein first filed suit — including a failed attempt by UCLA’s lawyers to get the case tossed by summary judgment.
The causes of action to be hashed out next month are breach of contract, retaliation, false light, and negligent interference with prospective earnings.
Klein’s attorney, Steve Goldberg, told The College Fix in a telephone interview this week the lion’s share of damages are based on the estimated loss of Klein’s expert witness practice income.
“That practice went to ashes right after he was suspended,” said Goldberg with the law firm
Markun, Zusman & Compton.
UCLA’s media relations division did not provide a comment on the lawsuit despite repeated requests this week.
Klein, who joined the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1981, continues to teach as a full-time lecturer there. But his lawsuit alleges he made most of his money as a litigation expert.
He has testified, for example, in several high-profile court cases, including Michael Jackson’s wrongful death, Apple’s acquisition of Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones, and the valuation of General Motors’ assets in bankruptcy.
“He was one of the top damages experts in the country who was historically bringing in well over $1 million dollars a year and trending upwards when it happened,” Goldberg said.
Klein’s lawsuit alleges the controversy and bad press that surrounded him in June 2020 made him untouchable as a litigation expert.
The crux of the controversy took place following Floyd’s death, when Klein received a request asking that he provide academic leniency for his black students enduring emotional duress.
It was a relatively common request at the time among college students at several universities as the nation was gripped with racial tension and rioting.
Klein responded June 2, 2020, by asking how he was supposed to identify black students in the online class; whether he should also go easy on white students from Minneapolis; how much leeway to show half-black students; and how the student feels about Martin Luther King Jr.’s admonition to not evaluate people based on “the color of their skin.”
A screenshot of Klein’s response was distributed widely and decried by students in messages and on social media.
In response, Anderson School Dean Antonio Bernardo wrote in a June 4, 2020, memo to the campus community that Klein was suspended and an investigation was underway.
While not naming Klein specifically, Bernardo’s memo referred to the high-profile incident as “troubling conduct by one of our lecturers.”
“Conduct that demonstrates a disregard for our core principles, including an abuse of
power, is not acceptable,” he added. “…I deeply regret the increased pain and anger that our community has experienced at this very difficult time. We must and will hold each other to higher standards.”
Klein was reinstated less than a month later, but his lawsuit alleges the damage was already done. A petition calling for Klein to be fired garnered more than 21,000 signatures, stating: “We ask for your support in having Professor Klein’s professorship terminated for his extremely insensitive, dismissive, and woefully racist response to his students’ request for empathy and compassion during a time of civil unrest.”
A petition in support of Klein launched a week later drew nearly 77,000 signatures.
Klein’s lawsuit also alleges emotional distress, as he received death threats by phone and email, including antisemitic tropes. Under the causes of action, Dean Bernardo may be held personally liable for punitive damages.
UCLA, in court documents, has argued Bernardo’s memo did not take issue with Klein’s decision not to leniently grade black students — but rather his tone in response to the request.
However Klein’s attorneys argue that what UCLA did was basically punish the educator for following state and federal law that forbids discrimination on the basis of race.
“It’s a big case, not only because of the effect on Gordon Klein … but it obviously has important implications for academic freedom at the university level, which is a big hot topic around the country,” Goldberg told The Fix.
MORE: UCLA removes lecturer for questioning proposal to give black students preferential grading
Ron DeSantis
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Governor Ron DeSantis Hosts a Roundtable Discussion Highlighting First COVID Grand Jury Report
Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis
Governor Ron DeSantis Hosts a Roundtable Discussion Highlighting First COVID Grand Jury Report
12:09 PM · Feb 9, 2024
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https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1756017414737887275
vid is over one hour, cannot post…
https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1755754885897744865
Emily Kopp
@emilyakopp
These “crap” comments became a key premise of the “Proximal Origin” paper, which would garner 3 million views within hours and become the most high impact scientific paper in years. That the argument came from Fouchier, an infamous gain of function virologist, was never disclosed. Indeed the authors would be accused of plagiarism. It still hasn’t been retracted.
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Honest in private, Dishonest in public.
Four years ago, on Feb 8, 2020, in a private Slack chat, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes, Andrew Rambault, and Kristian Andersen expressed their disappointment in comments they received in an email from Ron Fouchier.
6:45 PM · Feb 8, 2024
https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1755754885897744865