In the past, the widespread introduction of vaccines has reduced the mortality and morbidity of millions and served as a model for preventative medicine and public health. However, conditions change when for many a particular vaccine’s risks outweigh the benefits, the primacy of protective natural immunity is disregarded, the legality of the mandates and the […]
Vaccine Mandates
United Airlines Will Let Unvaccinated Employees Return After Mistreating Workers
United Airlines, citing a steep decrease in COVID cases, will allow unvaccinated workers who refused to receive a COVID vaccine return to work on March 28, shifting from one of the nation’s strictest COVID vaccine mandates. In a memo sent to employees on Thursday, the Chicago-based carrier — whose largest shareholders are Vanguard and Blackrock […]
How Colleges Handled COVID and Mandates, Which Schools to Avoid
The last two years have been a crushing time to be a college student. They have had to navigate university life altered by failed promises and unjustified virus protection measures. The best years of their young adult lives have been riddled with never-ending restrictions on social gatherings, closed dining halls, cancellations of school traditions and […]
Illinois Governor Pritzker Loses Fight to Keep Kids Masked, Appeals to Supreme Court
Governor J.B. Pritzker asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to take up an appeal over mask and vaccine mandates in schools after losing his case in the Court of Appeals. It was unclear Tuesday if the state’s highest court would take up the case. On Feb. 17 the Court of Appeals for the Fourth […]
Who’s Really Behind COVID Vaccine Mandates?
After the U.S. Supreme Court last month froze the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large private employers, some companies — including Boeing, General Electric and Starbucks — dropped plans to implement the mandate. Others, based on guidance issued in 2020 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, left the mandates in place. Most of the large employers that opted to mandate COVID vaccines for their employees, even though […]