Nobody is forced to do anything. Anybody who chooses not to be vaccinated is completely free to do that. They can’t go to UConn. They can’t go to Yale or Harvard or Norte Dame but there are many universities who will accept them. It is a choice and choices have consequences, good and bad. Attending UConn is not some kind of right. You need to apply. You need to be accepted. You need to pay your tuition bill. You need to comply with a myriad of rules and regulations while enrolled. You don’t want to get vaccinate, don’t get vaccinated. And accept the consequences of your decision. One is you might get a life threatening disease another might be you can’t get a job with certain companies, and another is you can’t attend certain colleges and universities.
Yes not yet, but if you read my post, I said I don’t like where this is going. We just don’t know how far they are going to take it. If they say you can’t go anywhere unless you are vaxed, then that is being forced. Just so everyone understands, I too want things back to normal and everyone safe, but as one poster said, we are putting a rushed product into our bodies that who knows, may have consequences down the line, we just don’t know. I spoke to my Doctor and he said the same thing happened with the polio vax being rushed out and that was a good thing according to him, so he trusts this and he’s a pal of Fauci’s and almost threw me out of his office Thursday when we had this convo.
You do know that this was a new virus. Nobody quite understood it in March 2020. It took several months just to understand how it was transmitted. Some early reports Suggested it spread more easily through contact than through aerosol. Now we know those were wrong. But considering nobody knew what they were dealing with then, it didn’t take long to get better information, and give better advice. Now we don’t wipe groceries down. But we do, or until recently, did, wear masks at the grocery store. We didn’t have a workable vaccine, now we do. it isn’t dangerous, it is effective. You don’t want to get it, that is fine, but man up and accept the consequences of your decision. A huge problem now is people want choice but want it without any consequences.
Except the tax payer is forced to support the university. Agree 100% with everything you said if it is a private university similar to Yale Harvard or Notre Dame like you referenced
Much of public health is weighing the positives vs. the societal costs. The flu vaccine being less effective and the flu itself being less deadly makes the cost a bit harder and toughens the pushback. However, the longer track record of safety offsets some of the concerns. In the end, we get to the highly encouraged (especially for children and elderly), but optional equilibrium. For COVID, the strength of the vaccines and the worse mortality rates overall make the pill an easier swallow for more of the population and an ability for institutions to create these stricter policies.
Ok so in essence if the flu kills like 50k in a bad year, a vaccine is out there to cut that number to like 10k then those lives don’t matter. LOTS of older folks go to UConn games. If you are requiring one vaccine you require them all and proof to show you got them. If you can stop people from dying with a vaccine then why wouldn’t you require it? As others have said in this thread, you don’t HAVE to get it, you just can’t do certain things
Correct. The lives matter less to enough people. I edited in more, but I agree with you for the record. Just telling it like it is. 40k is 0.01% of the population. 500k is 1% and now we can get people's attention and effort.
mRNA vaccines have been tested for around two decades. Scientists know the long term health implications of them. They’re safe. They haven’t been used before because they didn’t work against their targeted virus, but they are safe. There are people walking around that have had various mRNA vaccines in them for 10 years.
Ok so appears we are generally on the same page. I guess this virus would be a way to implement stricter policies as you said to include proof of various vaccines for diseases in order to go to games (in this instance) or concerts or whatever.
Doesn’t matter. You still can’t attend if you don’t follow the rules. It isn’t like any Connecticut resident can attend UConn. One of the rules is be vaccinated. What does taxpayer funding have to do with this requirement? Draw me the line.
Are you?
When I got to your reply, I think my question came across different than I intended.
