Petition to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates at Yale and other Connecticut colleges and universities.
We call for the repeal of COVID-19 vaccine mandates at Yale and other Connecticut colleges and universities.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons wrote an open letter expressing similar sentiments.
Universities and colleges have no authority to mandate COVID -19 vaccines for students, faculty, or staff as a condition to learn, teach, or work on campus.
We assert our right to decline an experimental medical intervention. It is a form of coercion to tie vaccination status to rights to employment, school attendance, or access to public spaces or accommodations.
Under current U.S. Supreme Court law, in order to mandate a medical intervention, there must be an epidemic that imperils the entire population. The CDC’s own data does not support vaccine mandates.
It’s unacceptable to restrict the rights of individuals based on their personal health decisions or vaccine status. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, enacted in 1948 to protect against such abuses, states, “Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”
What are the long-term effects?
Vaccine manufacturers cannot ensure the safety of any COVID-19 vaccine and have been excused from liability for damages, even when due to negligence. These products have had mere months of clinical observation, not the many years required to prove safety and efficacy through post-marketing surveillance. First-generation pharmaceutical products are notorious for unintended side-effects.
Considering these factors, vaccine mandates are clearly not medically-justifiable:
• Requiring individuals to use a pharmaceutical product —regardless of health status or risk factor for COVID-19 — is unethical, unlawful and coercive.
• Requiring individuals to use a pharmaceutical product to receive certain privileges or basic necessities is also a form of coercion and, thus, is unethical.
• Requiring individuals to be injected with an experimental, fast-tracked, brand new technology is unethical and illegal, especially given:
1) known safety concerns and existing data
2) no long-term safety and efficacy studies available
3) no legal recourse for damages of injury or death
This is not a rebuke against vaccines.
We stand against the erosion of our foundational human right of informed consent to medical procedures, the loss of which sets very dangerous precedents.
We call on higher education to see that the extraordinarily powerful pharmaceutical industry, the regulatory agencies that govern pharma, and the public-private partnerships that stand to make billions on vaccine mandates, do not have the final say in shaping our health laws, our culture, and how we live our daily lives. Basic human rights and democracy itself are at stake and we are depending on you to do the right thing.