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Did College Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Go Too Far?

Did College Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Go Too Far?

Handful of Earth featured in MIT Science Magazine, Undark

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Vincent Kelley
Sep 20, 2023
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I was interviewed and corresponded many times with the author, Sara Talpos, senior editor at Undark and a freelance writer. I gave Sara an abundance of resources and contacts with the hope she would provide a more diverse perspective on those of us advocating against COVID vaccine mandates. Alas, none of it got reported but she did include the thoughts of Vincent Kelley and her article links to his excellent Substack. If you are not already subscribed to Vincent's Substack, I highly recommend it. His essays are not only heavily researched, well written and deeply thought provoking, but more importantly they provide great hope that higher education hasn't succeeded in robbing all students of the bold expression of independent thought and truth-searching and the bravery to speak it. -
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Many readers know that I have been involved with the anti-mandate movement, which is a topic I’ve written about at Handful of Earth on a number of occasions. Due to my public stand against covid vaccine mandates on college and university campuses, I was contacted by a science journalist, Sara Talpos, with the MIT-based magazine, Undark, for a series of interviews.

The result of Sara’s reporting was published this week in a long-form piece entitled, “Did College Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Go Too Far?”

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In addition interview quotes, Sara features Handful of Earth in the article, linking to my recent essay, “The Truth of the Anecdote.” Here’s the link to her article, and a short excerpt:

As students return to campus for the 2023-2024 academic year, most Covid-19 vaccine requirements have been lifted or simplified. This is cold comfort to Kelley and other critics of campus mandates, who note that young men also have a small but heightened risk for worrying side effects from the vaccines. In speaking with Undark, Kelley described the vaccine mandates, and the booster requirements in particular, as coercive policies that college administrators, and even many of his fellow students, simply refused to question, even as evidence supporting them waned.

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