K-12 teachers across California will be required to prove their full vaccination status against COVID-19 by mid-October or be subject to weekly testing, state officials announced Wednesday.
The requirement via public health order from the California Department of Public Health will take effect Thursday, according to the state, and is the state’s latest effort to shrink the number of unvaccinated workers in both the public and private sectors.
Gov. Gavin Newsom joined education and political officials in Oakland to announce the vaccine verification requirement, arguing that the state has a responsibility to continue pushing its vaccination total higher.
As of Wednesday, 77.5 percent of state residents age 12 and up have received at least one dose of the available COVID-19 vaccines, which have all but eliminated the threat of serious illness and death for those who are fully inoculated.
The state will continue mandating that students and staff members wear face coverings indoors at schools regardless of vaccination status, a policy state officials have framed as both an added layer of protection against more transmissible strains of COVID-19 like the delta variant and a way to prevent stigmatizing unvaccinated students.
This vacsination requirement seems like obomacare mandate. Both are unconstitionial because they are not law passed by Congress and certified by the U.S. Surpreme Court.
you’re wrong. See Jacobson v Massachusetts regarding the vaccine mandate.
First, not only Congress doesn’t need to pass a law to mandate vaccinations, it actually can’t. Because its legislative power is strictly confined to the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
On the other hand, the same Constitution grants states the power to mandate vaccinations. The exact language is that states have the general police power to enact laws “to provide for the public health, safety, and morals” of their inhabitants. That’s part of high school civics curriculum (assuming you’ve got that far in your primary education).
Second, mandatory vaccinations have been litigated extensively in the beginning of 20th century, mainly in relation to smallpox (now, that one was a nasty vaccine for those who are old enough to remember). And SCOTUS (that’s Supreme Court of the United States) decided not once, but twice that the states are well within their power to enact compulsory vaccinations and that such laws are very much constitutional. It would take maybe 5 seconds to google the specific decisions.
So you’re completely and utterly wrong on both counts. Makes me wonder, why would anyone want to demonstrate their ignorance in such a spectacular way.
DLo & tashaj both WRONG.
Any mandated Injection requires INFORMED CONSENT….
Kind of hard to do when the Injection insert is BLANK.
Next, it is a violation of the Geneva convention and My God given autonomy…..I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOUR Jacobson v. Massachusetts says.
So did the CTA piss off Dictator Newscum?
He is forcing state employees to get a non-FDA approved (EUA is not a full approval and can be rescinded) drug is wrong. Now he is required a public union to do so … has the the little teachers union approved this yet? Can Dictator Newscum even force a union to do something?
So much wrong with this .. so much wrong with him. Only 34 more days to go till the Recall Vote is in .. and he is (hopefully and RIGHTFULLY) removed from office.
Good. Serves them right for going along with this HOAX and pushing CRT and other extremist ideology. Should have stood up for our kids.
Suxs, but, time to get out of Cali…
What is the point? I’m so sick and tired of everything being a “mandate”. It’s over used and getting old. State officials have no intention of ever letting this power grab go. Endless lies—do this the you can have this. This virus is NEVER going away, but if you’re smart you’ll make plans to flee this dumpster fire of a state before it’s too late.
And before you tell me people are getting sick and dying and we must be responsible by wearing a mask and getting vaccinated, take a look around at all those rich and powerful people. They are going about their lives in their private schools, having over-blown parties and telling you to stay home. I don’t care what side you’re on, vaccinated or not, this has to stop. Time to stop fighting each other and start fighting the government.
And people in other states are living their lives too. With no more ill effects than CA. We didn’t do all this with swine flu. None of it makes any actual sense, but you can’t tell that to liberals. They have bought into it full roar.
I guess teachers aren’t educated enough to make their own educated decisions!
Well, many are not educated enough to actually teach effectively. So, there’s that. They also keep dumbing down the requirements as well. Makes me feel real secure.
The vaccine is not law.
It’s time to deliver the haymaker to Gavin on 9/14
He’s not just earned it, he’s begged for it. Not an empathic bone in his body. It’s all about Gavin all the time. Dump this zero.
@The Fearless Spectator
You’re exactly right. He looked at himself as “The Golden Child” untouchable. For crying out loud, he’s STILL claiming success.
Dump this zero yesterday.
unions win again, and the children along with their future continue to loose
#RecallGavinNewsom
Requiring vaccinations is nothing new. Even George Washington required vaccination of his troops.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html
For you flag wavers, if you are a true patriot and are loyal to and love this county get vaccinated like our founding fathers did.
Freedom to choose, that is patriotic. Patriotic does not mean you must be vaccinated. Just a few words for you to consider:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
–Ronald Reagan
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
–Nelson Mandela
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
–Benjamin Franklin
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
–Benjamin Franklin
“I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.”
–Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
–Martin Luther King Jr.
“Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.”
–General John Stark
What about the parents and kids getting weekly tests? Doubt the vaxxed or unvaxxed parents will go along with that. Vaxxed people pass the virus, too. How about them getting weekly tests? Or anyone coming in contact with the kids, including grandparents, cousins, relatives, friends, people at fast food, parks, swimming pools, costco, etc.? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.