Vax Optional Colleges with Outstanding Art Programs

parentologist
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 01:56:39 +0000

I can tell you why it’s so hard to get a letter. Any medical condition that would theoretically make the vaccine inadvisable (such as a strong, recent history of recurrent idiopathic thrombocytopenia), would make getting infected with Covid far, far more inadvisable than getting immunized. So if a person supposedly cannot get the vaccine, that person needs to be isolated at home, so that they don’t contract Covid. And that’s not even considering the risk to others, since if the vaccine is 95% effective, and an unimmunized person has a high chance of becoming infected, it can be expected that one in 20 immunized people who come into contact with her could become infected. That means that one unimmunized person could infect possibly ten people in a 200 person lecture hall. You can see how one unimmunized person could shut down a campus.

I suspect that a hard line will be held at many schools and in many states against allowing unimmunized people on campus, for their own safety, and more importantly, for the safety of the entire campus community. But not in Utah, Florida, Alabama, and Texas - I suspect other “red” states will follow. There, people will attend unimmunized, they will bring in Covid and spread Covid, some immunized people will contract it, some dedicated immunized older professor will become very ill from it, or die of it, and the campus will be shut down, or all classes will be held remotely and students will be confined to their dorm rooms, and everyone will be furious, everyone will lose. But hey, I guess that’s the price of freedom!