JustTheNews: The writing is on the wall for COVID-19 mandates in educational settings in several jurisdictions, prompted by court rulings, political flips and the perception of pending electoral doom.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said he “wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights” when he issued unilateral lockdown orders early in the pandemic, announced Monday he would end the state’s school mask mandate in a month.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, also a Democrat, ended his state’s mandate last month, and Democrat-led Connecticut and New York are considering letting their expiring mandates lapse.
They may be afraid of becoming the next Virginia, where Republicans swept high office largely on the basis of parental outrage at public school policies on COVID and curriculum.
Four Virginia public universities dropped vaccine and booster mandates for students following an advisory opinion from new Attorney General Jason Miyares to Gov. Glenn Youngkin, dated Jan. 26. Miyares made it public two days later.
While not legally binding, it echoes the reasoning in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate for large employers, which cited the failure of Congress to authorize such mandates even as lawmakers approved other COVID-related legislation.
Miyares overturned his predecessor’s opinion that Virginia statutes gave universities “implied discretion” to require COVID vaccines, ignoring the more specific statute expressly requiring certain immunizations to attend the institutions. The General Assembly has not amended that statute among its many other changes during the pandemic, he said.
George Mason University apparently kept the community in the dark for three days about revising its policy in response to Miyares. read more
Mandates are falling for every/any reason except the RIGHT one: there was never a legitimate medical/scientific reason to force anyone to take an experimental drug whose real benefit/risk ratio is absolutely unknown to anyone and apparently a stupidly wrong choice.
That these mandates were viciously pursued by idiots UNQUALIFIED to make medical decisions makes them especially despicable. This matter is not over until trials, prosecutions and appropriate sentencing is meted out.
The fascists who insisted on doing the unknown must not be allowed to hide behind the false claim that they were acting “in an abundance of caution”. Death to lying murderers.
If they ‘fear elections’, that’s more proof that votes are just numbers that are manipulated or bought.
What they should fear is that each citizen that they chose to steamroll is a human whose Right to Life is absolute and God-given.
Are you listening Governor Inslee? Somehow I seriously doubt it. We have a City Council person in Spokane who wants to end all the friggin mask mandates now as well as our Mayor.
What many institutions do is deliver an emaciated model of teaching and learning while keeping the prices of taking the topics at the identical, pre-coronavirus level. The fashionable learning institution has become the clearinghouse for glorified correspondence courses on https://essaywriter.nyc/. By the time the vaccination drive has parked most of the world’s population into appropriate spots of security, the educational environment will have a permanently cold and mechanical sense thereto. Students of the longer term are none the wiser.
Excellent article differentiating from what we are presently seeing as “emergency remote teaching” and “online teaching”. A useful basis for reflection for anyone who has an interest in where we are today with HE teaching & learning and where we are going. In a situation where there’s no other option, i believe this emergency remote learning model works well.
Gotta give The Rona its proper proppy props.
It sure has exposed a TON of hot corrupt political garbage around the world, one thing these moronic political demons didn’t factor in.
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Where’d I go?
There I am!
They are not mandates, they are dictates.
Leftists live to soften the names of tyrannical dictates.
Randy “I am all powerful” Weingartner is throwing a hissy fit.
She likes the brainwashing that goes with masks and makes children obedient little comrades.
On a side note: I have had more than enough of teachers being put on a pedestal.
They aren’t doing a good job for the most part. And it’s the best 9 months a yr job ever. Holidays, workshops, school vacation weeks, summer, all off. They get sick days and personal days.
They love to whine about the money but they know what teaching pays before they go into it. They whine about bringing work home. Most people with real careers do every week.
Put your mask on your killing me!
@ Jerry Manderin ^
I agree, Covid turned out to be a type of global/political colon (enema) cleanse used to flush out corrupt politicians, media hacks, big tech scum and greedy health care charlatans.
Karma.
Jerry and Mickey,
looked at another way, COVID was another blessing from God. How REVELATORY!! We could never keep up with His plan, but if you look at right, it’s why He’s our Father Almighty.
Smile, and be well.