Western knows its vaccine mandate won’t protect students. The university just doesn’t want the type of people the vaccine mandate excludes to be its students.
Aug 24, 2022·edited Aug 24, 2022Liked by Andrew Lawton
Another reason for smart, motivated young people who are proactive about their health to not go to university - do you really want bureaucrats forcing you to get medical procedures? It's a big world out there, folks. Life is too short to comply with bureaucratic weasels at Western (who could make it even shorter ...). My wife graduated from Western - I would be furious is this were happening back then. I hope many students are now.
It's a huge problem. I certainly see the value in postsecondary education, especially if someone is going onto law school, medical school, etc. But the whole point of these institutions is to foster critical thinking.
Yes, it's a big problem for credentialed professions. (But for some people, it's actually a favour to get them to go another route.) My wife's profession is 'strongly credentialed' - to get in, you have to get a degree from a specific program at a university. Even there, though, you can switch universities, or even go outside of the country or take a year off to do something else worthwhile. Of course, the weasels at Western have made this last-minute and as difficult as can be. If, like Novak Djokovic, medical bodily autonomy is a non-negotiable principle for you, in this environment you might pay a price. But the cost seems bigger if you give up that principle, especially collectively as a society. And with some creativity, you just might in the long run have more career autonomy and a better trade (they're all trades - law, medicine, whatever - medicine can be a particularly brutal trade with high costs to entry, high stress, and where a lot of the jobs within it are not suited to most people, like looking at skin conditions all day, say :) ).
This is excellently written and hits the mail on the head! We are dealing with the notorious “group-think” when it comes to any institution requiring mass compliance. The mandates are political science, not medical science, and that has been proven time and time again!
Thank you, Dan. Greatly appreciate it. You are, sadly, quite correct. Either Western doesn't understand the science (which doesn't bode well for an institute of higher learning) or doesn't care.
Have you looked into who funds Western? Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donate heavily to the public health school at U of T where they are also mandating boosters.
Could this have anything to do with the fact that Western and U of T (two of 15 research universities working under the umbrella of U15) is partnered with Moderna to advance research in MRNA science and technology?
Shouldn’t forcing humans to subject themselves to forced vaccination to benefit lucrative research projects be considered a criminal offence?
I don’t think so. The new president of Western is a member of this group but also on the boards of BEHR and the LEDC. While other board members (Goldie Hyder for example) are linked to virtue signalling initiatives like Catalyst Canada, there is no doubt of the $Billions being made in the research and business development partnerships — ALL dependent on government funding that do not benefit citizens, taxpayers or our young people and revolves around pandemics that we are all ready to move on from.
Another reason for smart, motivated young people who are proactive about their health to not go to university - do you really want bureaucrats forcing you to get medical procedures? It's a big world out there, folks. Life is too short to comply with bureaucratic weasels at Western (who could make it even shorter ...). My wife graduated from Western - I would be furious is this were happening back then. I hope many students are now.
It's a huge problem. I certainly see the value in postsecondary education, especially if someone is going onto law school, medical school, etc. But the whole point of these institutions is to foster critical thinking.
Yes, it's a big problem for credentialed professions. (But for some people, it's actually a favour to get them to go another route.) My wife's profession is 'strongly credentialed' - to get in, you have to get a degree from a specific program at a university. Even there, though, you can switch universities, or even go outside of the country or take a year off to do something else worthwhile. Of course, the weasels at Western have made this last-minute and as difficult as can be. If, like Novak Djokovic, medical bodily autonomy is a non-negotiable principle for you, in this environment you might pay a price. But the cost seems bigger if you give up that principle, especially collectively as a society. And with some creativity, you just might in the long run have more career autonomy and a better trade (they're all trades - law, medicine, whatever - medicine can be a particularly brutal trade with high costs to entry, high stress, and where a lot of the jobs within it are not suited to most people, like looking at skin conditions all day, say :) ).
This is excellently written and hits the mail on the head! We are dealing with the notorious “group-think” when it comes to any institution requiring mass compliance. The mandates are political science, not medical science, and that has been proven time and time again!
Thank you, Dan. Greatly appreciate it. You are, sadly, quite correct. Either Western doesn't understand the science (which doesn't bode well for an institute of higher learning) or doesn't care.
Have you looked into who funds Western? Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donate heavily to the public health school at U of T where they are also mandating boosters.
Could this have anything to do with the fact that Western and U of T (two of 15 research universities working under the umbrella of U15) is partnered with Moderna to advance research in MRNA science and technology?
Shouldn’t forcing humans to subject themselves to forced vaccination to benefit lucrative research projects be considered a criminal offence?
https://u15.ca/
Certainly the funding angle is worth exploring. I'm generally of the mind that this is about ideology more than money, however.
I don’t think so. The new president of Western is a member of this group but also on the boards of BEHR and the LEDC. While other board members (Goldie Hyder for example) are linked to virtue signalling initiatives like Catalyst Canada, there is no doubt of the $Billions being made in the research and business development partnerships — ALL dependent on government funding that do not benefit citizens, taxpayers or our young people and revolves around pandemics that we are all ready to move on from.