Tag: vaccine mandates

Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses With Natural Immunity

Commentary Among many surprising developments during this pandemic, the most stunning has been the questioning of naturally acquired immunity after a person has had the Covid disease. We have understood natural immunity since at least the Athenian Plague in 430 BC. Here is Thucydides: “Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the…


Stanford Students Petition Against School Booster Mandate

STANFORD, Calif.—A group of Stanford University students, led by first-year Ph.D. student Monte Fischer, delivered to school leaders on Jan. 18 an open letter against the school’s booster shot mandates. The letter is addressed to President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Provost Persis Drell, and Associate Vice Provost Russell Furr. It demands a repeal to Stanford’s policy mandating…


Canada-US Relationship Has Never Been ‘So Weak’: O’Toole

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole says the Canada-U.S. relationship hasn’t been at such a low point in decades, saying it jeopardizes the Canadian economy and several of its key sectors. In an interview with The Epoch Times, O’Toole said Canada’s influence as a strategic trading partner has been weakened with its southern neighbour, putting the…


Military Still Ignoring Religion for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Exemption, Despite Media Narrative: Mike Berry

The U.S. Armed Forces recently granted its first religious accommodations for the COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Stories on this made headlines in most major outlets, yet the situation on religious accommodation is still far from ideal, according to Mike Berry, general counsel for the First Liberty Institute. The two Marines who have been granted exemptions are…


Mandates Are About Political Control, Not Health

For two years, the political class’s ineptitude has been on full display. School shutdowns, business closures, and endless mask mandates have all proven relatively ineffective at stemming the spread of COVID-19 (never mind reducing hospitalizations and deaths), yet politicians continued instituting these harmful and useless measures in a desperate attempt to be perceived as doing something….


At Least 19 Federal Agencies Consider Tracking Religious Exemption Requests From Vaccine Mandates

At least 19 federal government agencies have implemented or are considering putting in place a system to track religious exemption requests for mandated vaccines, according to a review of Federal Register notices by The Epoch Times The agencies include the departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Treasury. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative…


The Truth About Vaccine-induced Myocarditis

Commentary The following essay has been rigorously fact-checked by Stanford medicine professor and infectious disease expert Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. The scientific claims regarding post-vaccine myocarditis are fully in line with the current medical literature. Over the past several months, I have faced insurmountable challenges in publishing my thoroughly fact-checked, interview-driven essays on post-vaccine myocarditis—an issue that…


Robert Henneke Accurately Predicts SCOTUS Decision on OSHA Vaccine Mandate, Explains SCOTUS Thinking

“This administration needs to stop with these mandates, stop being involved, and let Florida be Florida. Let New York be New York.” With the Supreme Court blocking the Biden administration’s mandates for private businesses, we sat down with Robert Henneke, executive director and general counsel at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He’s the lead counsel…


Robert Henneke Predicted SCOTUS Decision on OSHA Vaccine Mandate, Explains SCOTUS Thinking

“This administration needs to stop with these mandates, stop being involved, and let Florida be Florida. Let New York be New York.” With the Supreme Court blocking the Biden administration’s mandates for private businesses, we sat down with Robert Henneke, executive director and general counsel at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He’s the lead counsel…


Recent Statements From Biden and the CDC Have Destroyed the Legal Basis for Vaccine Mandates | Truth Over News

If you said that vaccines don’t work to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, you were removed from Twitter. If you said that the death rate from COVID was dramatically inflated by existing conditions, you were removed from Facebook. If you said that we needed to have targeted protection rather than broad-based mandates and lockdowns, you…