Yeshiva University has instituted a new policy that has numerous students and parents up in arms: all students are mandated to receive a Covid-19 booster shot in order to return for the Spring semester but will still be required to wear masks and test weekly for the virus.
The new mandate, announced in a school-wide email, has particularly infuriated people because, prior to the Fall semester, students who were unvaccinated were told that receiving a Covid-19 vaccine would allow them to unmask, not be subject to weekly testing, and included an assurance that students would not be required to take a booster shot.
Now, despite the Omicron variant having shown its ability to evade the Covid-19 vaccines – including booster shots – Yeshiva University has essentially rendered its twice-dosed student and faculty “unvaccinated.”
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Signing this petition is tantamount to signing:- “I am not interested in going to visit Israel” when they take America off the red list, probably around end of January.
Now go & figure out why these Zionists wouldn’t wish to Israel?
isn’t YU an open minded tolerant yeshiva?
And who thought it will end..?
It ends when we stop complying.
Like in LA they pulled back from children mandates cause no one was complying.
If you comply you are guilty.
So they can always go to a different college, problem solved.
Slanted journalism at its best. Is this Torah? Would you prefer people get sick and die? The University is allowed to enforce its policy. If you dont like it, vote with your feet. Besides it isnt true that the Omicrom variant evades the vaccine. Properly vaccinated people suffer much much less, most asymptomatic.
For the last time, a vaccine cant prevent infection, only symptoms. It isnt a glass enclosure. It enables the body to fight the infection effectively, efficiently and most of the time protects from suffering, health complications and long term damage.
Sign the petition but be prepared to transfer to a more “politically unwoke” kollel that doesn’t require vaccines, masks or an IQ over 101 or get vaccinated and move on. Easy choice, even for some of these talmeidei chachamim who won’t accept the reality that evidence shows lower rate of infection among the boosted versus just 2 shots or no shots. you are entitled to your opinion on vaccine efficacy an YU is entitled to set policy on who walks in the door.
FOOLS WILL BE FOOLS
Meanwhile some of the same people who happen to be doctors would not help patients who have been diagnosed with COVID with proper medications like Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and zinc.
They could care less about your health!!!
It’s all about how they look in the eyes of the Olam Hasheker
Oh my, the world must be coming to an end, because some University has a booster mandate.
Just proves that frum yidden who are l’maleh min hatevah have no business attending YU.
I heartily reccomend that the editor of this srticle look up the meaning of the word “endless”.
Maybe it’s just me, but I prefer my news articles to be impartial. Write-ups like this one, which are slanted toward one opinion, are correctly termed “editorials”. Perhaps this would be solved most simply if YWN billed itself as an editorial site.
y2r I had to laugh at your post, you seem to be pushing fake cures then you call everyone else the olam hasheker! How rich of you.
Talk about calling the kettle black.
The goal posts keep changing like many warned they would
The vaccine doesn’t work well enough to be forced onto a low risk population
Most of these boosted people are going to get covid anyway
Don’t comply it was always just one more thing they wanted, and then just one more, just one more. It will never end until you stop complying
Didn’t they ever hear of fake vaccine cards?
mobico – All news is opinion. News is reported based on the opinion of the one reporting, whether you know it/see it/ realize it or not.
if YWN would be “anti-vax” this site would look much different.
I think they’re doing everything they can to make sure the virus doesn’t spread within their walls. I find it commendable. Too many schools have had to go virtual with the spread of the virus lately.
The most shocking statement from Ohevet Yisroel: “Would you prefer people get sick and die?” “Properly vaccinated people suffer much much less, most asymptomatic.” As of Dec. 10, the World Health Organization reported ZERO deaths worldwide from Omicron. On Dec. 24 one U.S. death “from” (or with) Omicron was reported, in a man in his 50s in Harris County, TX, with a number of underlying medical conditions. Another man recently died in the U.K. with Omicron – not “from” Omicron. These are the two documented “Omicron deaths” worldwide. Omicron is a mild cold virus. Those who have gotten it did not “suffer” and surely they did not “die” either. The fact that you proudly state that you’d rather subject your body to repeated mRNA experimental injections (ingredients still undisclosed as the injections are still under Emergency Use Authorization) in an effort to “stay healthy” is actually frightening to any thinking person. Young people should no longer be allowed to go to college? Eat in restaurants? Attend family gatherings with “safe” people like you? As the inventor of mRNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone, M.D. stated in an interview a few days ago, the population has clearly entered a “Mass Formation Psychosis” similar to what happened in the 1930s. You are in a trance.
truthishidden:
While you’re right in general, this article is more heavily slanted than the norm for a news piece, starting with the bold headliner. Let me at least think that I’m forming my own opinion.
TYW12345678 you really believe all this nonsense? A three minute Google search and you’ll see that Dr Malone is a quack who was not the inventor of the mRNA technology only one of the many researchers involved. An angry old man that feels slighted that he did not get all the credit.
It’s remarkable how dumb these “educated people” can be, they seriously believed that taking an experimental drug twice will let them “return to normal”, lol
Total absence of common sense or discernment…