California to Require COVID-19 Vaccine for Students to Attend Schools
Right now it’s only for 16 and up, since that’s what the FDA has approved. Once the FDA approves a vaccine for 12-15 year olds, they’ll be required to get it.
I don’t know FDA rules that well, but it seems to me that “FDA approval” is a different thing from “everybody should take this.” Any given drug has to be approved by the FDA, but that doesn’t mean everybody should take that drug.
Anyway, since political conservatives are more likely to be suspicious of the vaccine, maybe Newsome wants to give them reason 10,468 to leave the state.
QUOTE: Anyway, since political conservatives are more likely to be suspicious of the vaccine, maybe Newsome wants to give them reason 10,468 to leave the state.
Since vaccination mandates have been a thing in US schools since the early 1900s, it appears this current reaction is politically motivated. Who knows, maybe Newsome is strategizing to push conservatives out so he’s assured to win more elections and promulgate his political agenda. Maybe that’s the underlying impetus for states like Florida, Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Utah to have enacted legislation to ban public schools and universities from requiring students to have Covid-19 vaccinations to attend classes (given they’ve not repealed requirements for other legacy immunizations). Could it be they too are trying to give Liberals and Independents a reason to leave the state? After all, when given a choice of keeping their children safe or relocating, it’s likely caring parents with means would choose to leave.
There are many reasons why comparisons between previous vaccines and the Covid vaccine do not apply, but there are similarities. The polio vaccine was basically a huge experiment on children.
Did the public health establishment bungle the message about previous vaccines as much as they have about Covid?
But you are right that blue states will go blue, and red states will go red. I’m sure many liberals feel they are being pushed out of red states.
It’s odd, those who seem to be the most critical of the public health establishment act as if they would have done better. Effectively managing a novel health crisis is an iterative process. Mistakes are often made in the effort to make progress. Just as when 200,000 children received a defective polio vaccine, 40,000 got polio from it; 200 were left with varying degrees of paralysis, and 10 died. Yet, a key difference was the attitude of the public. They saw the horrible impact of polio and trusted the medical professionals despite errors. They didn’t allow politicians to shape their views on a medical crisis. Not so with Covid. Although hesitancy reasons vary, it’s weird how much faith some have allowed political alliance shape their views, in some cases to their own chagrin. So, bungling of process doesn’t seem to be new…but the public’s negative perception of the public health establishment seems to be. Too bad…they are more skilled to help manage this pandemic than the political establishment.