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College Administrators Are Idiots
I live about three miles away from William & Mary. The administrators don’t appear to be aware of one of the earliest facts that was known about COVID-19. The risk of death from it is heavily age-dependent. The young are at much greater risk from seasonal flu than they are from COVID. W&M ignored this and put in a vaccine mandate for a shot whose long-term effects are unknown. What’s becoming clear is that it produces more heart problems for young men than is true for COVID. The stupid requirement for wearing masks outside was enforced at one time as is shown by this old sign.
They continue to require students working out at a W&M gym to wear masks as is shown in this picture I took recently.
Wearing masks during vigorous activity is not only unnecessary; it’s potentially dangerous. But stupid dangerous restrictions tend to become entrenched. Will universities or the DOT be the first to remove mask requirements? I can support masks in medical settings but otherwise they should be eliminated. The science supports this but TPTB don’t care about that.
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OK, I guess I have to post here, what I posted over on my own blog. This is just awful.
Covid idiocy is among the more blatant examples of what idiots college administrators are generally. Another is how college administrators brag about their students being “the best and the brightest” and then treat them as fragile china figurines that must be protected from every bump and jostle that comes with real life.
It’s not just college administrators. At least some high schools in New Mexico require high school basketball players to wear cloth masks during competition games. The YMCA that organizes field soccer for little kids (age 4 – 7) requires the kids to wear masks outdoors. [I couldn’t figure out how to copy the photos to here. But you can find them in the Los Alamos Daily Post .] The risks presented by Covid to high school students is very close to zero, and to small children is statistically zero. So, any potential benefits to wearing masks by them is essentially zero. But some have said here that people who go into education fields apparently have been surveyed and found to be among the most risk-averse people in society, so maybe they are just trying to force everyone else to share their extreme concern about risk. Of course they are doing so with no apparent concern for the risks that mechanisms like masks, social isolation, and vaccines in unproven environments present.
All education/indoctrination institutions in America except private or parochial are beholden to the federal government. He who pays the piper calls the tune. If you accept one cent of government money, they own you.
Support Hillsdale College, which accepts not a penny from any level of government.
From the latest exchange here at Ricochet about this issue, I think that this is incorrect. I don’t have the source myself. I think that the data and explanation came from Kozak. If I recall properly, the very study that was cited for this claim stated that it was incorrect. It has been several weeks, so I’m going from memory.
Here’s an example.
https://www.practicalcardiology.com/view/israeli-study-details-myocarditis-risk-associated-with-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine
Thanks for the link. This study does not compare the rate of myocarditis after vaccination to the risk of myocarditis from Covid.
We need to destroy the public education system the same way New Zealand did. Kicked out of their relations and parent like oversight by the UK when the latter joined the EC, New Zealand’s socialist government simply abolished the educational bureaucracy, individually turning every public school over to parents and the teachers who taught in each one. They went from the bottom of western eduction to the top, just behind Singapore in one year. Parents got the money and decided where to send their kids and teachers had to compete for kids. It’s as if it were privatized but everyone could afford every school. We could do something similar, state by state, city by city, school by school. This is perhaps the most important control the radical left have and we just ignore it as if they were in charge. Parents can be in charge.
Authoritarians only support science which supports authoritarianism.
Yes. That study only gives us some clue about the risk of myocarditis from a Pfizer shot for young males. But what study tells us about the risk of myocarditis from the virus itself for young males?
Not this one; it only tells us about the risk of myocarditis from the virus for that subset of young males who had bad enough symptoms to end up in the medical system.
That’s a fallacy.
And not this one either; it just tells us about the risk of myocarditis from the virus for that subset of young males who had bad enough symptoms to end up in the medical system–and then makes some mysterious estimates about all the other young males to get to a conclusion about them.
That’s dodging one fallacy by making a mysterious assumption. Maybe a fallacious assumption, but who knows?
This one is much better. (I got this from either MiMac or Kozak; I can’t remember which!) It actually tells us about the risk of myocarditis from the virus for young males. By assuming that the Pfizer shot would mean, for each million young males, “56,700 COVID-19 cases prevented.” At least I know what the assumption is, and there’s no fallacy from that point in the argument.
But I haven’t yet figured out where the assumption comes from–other than that it’s “based on CDC forecasts,” forecasts from way before Omicron which may therefore not be accurate.