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TexasTowelie

(111,292 posts)
Fri May 28, 2021, 03:32 AM May 2021

Pressure mounts on Indiana University as more lawmakers criticize COVID-19 vaccine requirement

State Senate Republicans are joining the chorus of elected officials calling on Indiana University to walk back its COVID-19 vaccine requirement.

“After 14 months of fighting and enduring the COVID-19 war, our state is finally returning to the path of normalcy,” the state’s Senate GOP caucus wrote in a letter addressed to IU President Michael McRobbie. “Regrettably, decision makers at Indiana University have veered away from that path.”

The letter said that lawmakers had “grave concerns” about the mandate of a vaccine that only has emergency-use authorization and that the “heavy-handed mandate goes against many of the liberties on which our founders built our democratic republic.”

University officials said Thursday evening that they were still reviewing the letter, but referred to a statement issued earlier in the day in response to an opinion issued by State Attorney General Todd Rokita, which also voiced opposition.

Read more: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2021/05/27/iu-covid-vaccine-requirement-indiana-republicans-gop/7477598002/

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Pressure mounts on Indiana University as more lawmakers criticize COVID-19 vaccine requirement (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2021 OP
STUPID, elleng May 2021 #1
Give me Liberty and give me Death! bucolic_frolic May 2021 #2
What is the mattter with these people? Botany May 2021 #3
I have to go there in June barbtries May 2021 #4
Back to their, "freedumbs". SergeStorms May 2021 #5
Without vaccine and mask mandates, that veneer of 'normalcy' won't last very long. tanyev May 2021 #6

bucolic_frolic

(42,663 posts)
2. Give me Liberty and give me Death!
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:10 AM
May 2021

Why settle for one or the other when you can have both?

"emergency-use" only but are people dropping like flies from the vaccine? Anyone? Anyone at all?

Botany

(70,289 posts)
3. What is the mattter with these people?
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:22 AM
May 2021

They have taken a public health/science/medical problem and have made it political.

Do we see iron lungs anymore?

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
4. I have to go there in June
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:35 AM
May 2021

to monitor a study - I am glad for the requirement.

When did public health become a bad thing?

SergeStorms

(18,882 posts)
5. Back to their, "freedumbs".
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:44 AM
May 2021

I had hoped we moved past this bullshit, but it's clear we haven't. Their "freedumb" has been infringed upon, but "freedom" is the last thing they really want. They want to install an autocratic government, bypassing the will of the people.

So fuck their "freedumbs", and fuck their feelings. This pandemic is far from over, and if IU wants to establish a health protection rule, that's their prerogative.

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