Students at Ohio State required to get flu shots, in order to stay "safe" from the coronavirus

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Check out this pledge that students at Ohio State University must sign. Note, in

particular, this requirement: "Get a flu vaccination," to help oneself stay "safe"

from the coronavirus.

https://www.buckeyextra.com/assets/pdf/OH36316614.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1QP_6N3idk-xznrM8i88k3EUN4_WFXbX0yF9swC4cS_fJ_1vDS13QMbgg

This is criminally bad advice, since flu shots actually increase the risk of 

catching COVID-19 by 36%, as noted in this recent military study, among others:

“While influenza vaccination offers protection against influenza, natural influenza infection 

may reduce the risk of non-influenza respiratory viruses by providing temporary, non-specific 

immunity against these viruses. On the other hand, recently published studies have described 

the phenomenon of vaccine-associated virus interference; that is, vaccinated individuals may 

be at increased risk for other respiratory viruses because they do not receive the non-specific 

immunity associated with natural infection.”

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2020/03/11/flu-vaccine-increases-coronavirus-risk/

So this is just one more example of authorities, both state and corporate, urging,

or mandating, practices least likely to "protect" us from the coronavirus.

MCM

From a friend who teaches in that system:

I haven't seen what they're doing to the staff yet, but they always start with the students first.

This is part of a universal culture at OSU and just about everywhere.

When OSU at large wants someone to do something, they rarely just ask anymore. They coerce

people into signing a form. When pressed, they never give a reason, or state the consequences

of not signing the form. They simply harass you until you sign. It's also never really clear what

you're being asked to consent to. So, for instance, are they signing just to show they've read the

document? Are they signing to "pledge" to try and follow some guidelines? Are they agreeing to

be bound to the terms listed out in the form? What are those terms exactly? Are they required?

Are goals stated? Consequences certainly aren't. Are the requirements overreaching, germane to

the goal stated? Are they even legal?

I've been coerced into a background check with the ________________ HR. I've been told

that I consented to not releasing a practice exam answer key and when someone else asked

for the answer key the entire class was punished. I've had medical procedures I specifically

denied performed on me and now the employees are getting a version of consent form for

campus procedures that I have not seen yet, but the students (they always experiment on the

students first) have this form to sign which states among other things that they must get a

flu shot to ward off coronavirus.

It's not just this form. This is a pattern of abuse universal at Ohio State University. They start

on the students, then the staff, then, if they can, they roll it out on faculty and finally the rest of

the world. Someone has to check this behavior.