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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Rutgers announced today that fully-vaxxed and now compulsorily "boosted" students are barred from returning to their dorms til at least January 29, and classes are remote again / events cancelled. But at least the students were wished "a very happy and healthy new year" via email
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It's one thing to have limited sympathy for students attending "elite" private schools, but students going to state schools (often the only plausible option for them financially) are straightforwardly sympathy-deserving for all this ridiculousness
Don't worry this couldn't possibly have spread "Omicron" because as we know, vaccines prevent transmission. Therefore it makes complete sense to bar tuition-paying students from their residences. Thank you listening to this very important Safety Message

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5 Jan
Public schools were closed for at least 440,000 students in New Jersey as of today. That's over a third of the entire state's student population, and I probably under-counted. Definitely what you would have expected a full year into mass vaccination
Newark, Jersey City, Irvington, Elizabeth, Paterson, Bayonne, Union City, Hackensack, East Orange, New Brunswick, Hamilton, Camden, Trenton are among the larger districts closed. Some affluent districts too, but it's not hard to infer which students are mostly affected by this
Oh and by the way New Jersey public schools have received $4.3 billion in COVID funding from the federal government
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2 Jan
Twitter's current "COVID misinformation policy," under which Marjorie Taylor Greene was just banned, effectively prohibits criticism of "official regulations" and "restrictions" -- even on the grounds of "efficacy." And then they wonder why people are cynical
The terms of the policy could of course just as easily apply to COVID-fanatical users: what about the "harm" caused by generating the "misleading" impression that children are at extreme risk? To take just one example of countless. But of course it's never enforced that way
As usual, Tech Officials have made themselves into unilateral arbiters of complex public debates -- like they're Philosopher Kings. But the one-sidedness of "COVID misinformation" rules, combined with the inherent ambiguity of the "harm" principle, takes it to a whole other level
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31 Dec 21
If her shockingly dire predictions fizzle out, will this woman face any "accountability" for such extreme doom-saying? Professor at Johns Hopkins
This woman also works at the FDA. If you're using your governmental and university affiliations to give weight to such dire predictions, and they turn out to be bogus, should there not be some penalty incurred -- at least reputationally -- for doing a major public disservice...?
Would also note that the "disruptions" she's warning about seem not especially connected to the level of actual illness that is allegedly forthcoming, but rather the policies that cause things like staffing shortages for "testing positive"
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27 Dec 21
Bleak
Bleakness continued
Embrace the bleak
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23 Dec 21
Emerson College in Boston has issued a "stay in room directive" for returning students next month -- the same students already required to get "boosted" and tested twice a week. Sounds like fun
The individual issuing these "directives" is a "Vice President & Dean for Campus Life" who now gets to masquerade as some profound epidemiological authority thanks to his role in the COVID bureaucracy. Imagine being confined to your room on the orders of such an individual
This is why I keep banging on about the COVID bureaucracies, because they tend to be comprised of the last people on Earth that you'd ever voluntarily take direction from mtracey.substack.com/p/covid-bullsh…
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22 Dec 21
As expected, Chicago's just-announced vaccine passport scheme -- supposedly prompted by "Omicron" -- also rests on claims of "emergency" authority. Nearly two years later, just constant circumvention of "normal" governance procedures all around the country
Is there any evidence whatsoever that vaccine passports "stop the spread" of "Omicron"? All evidence points to the contrary. But sorry -- no debate permitted, because these municipal officials continue to assert "emergency" powers to do whatever they like
And as usual, hardly a peep about any of this from the ACLU and like-minded organizations
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