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IS TENNESSEE REALLY AGAINST SCHOOL MANDATES?

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In August, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee signed an executive order giving parents the right to opt-out of local school mask mandates. Governor Lee said in his order that he supported Covid vaccination. He said that vaccines are: “The most important tool we have to fight the pandemic.” However, the governor said he was issuing this order because he is opposed to public school mandates and government mandates in general. Well, don’t they have school mandates in Tennessee? Yes, they certainly do.

Public school mandates in Tennessee are among the harshest in the country. In Tennessee, schoolchildren as young as 7 years of age have been arrested and taken to jail in handcuffs for offenses such as cursing in a school playground. In 2016, 11 schoolchildren were arrested in Rutherford County for watching a fight. The 2 children who were fighting were 5 and 6 years old and were not arrested because of their age, but the children who watched the fight were older and arrested and taken to jail for failure to stop the fight.

Does Tennessee allow paddling and beating of school children? Yes, but with one exception. Disabled children cannot be beaten by school teachers or school staff in Tennessee without permission of the parents. If the parents give their permission, then school teachers in Tennessee can beat physically and mentally disabled children for offenses such as tardiness. The hypocrisy of some politicians about their opposition to school mandates seems astonishing to me! Over 700,000 Americans have already died from Covid. How many school children have died from tardiness? Yes, I know. I have written about this before.

GEORGE WASHINGTON AND SMALLPOX. Anti-vaxxers say that vaccination mandates violate their rights as American citizens. Well, the Founding Fathers of the United States didn’t feel that way. Early in the American Revolution, smallpox ran rampant through George Washington’s army. During the Battle of Quebec in December 1775, Washington’s army was so weakened by smallpox that they had to call off the battle and retreat back to New York. Washington tried a number of measures to control the epidemic, including quarantines, but nothing worked. Finally, in 1777, Washington opted for smallpox vaccination of his troops. Although the method of vaccination available at the time was crude, it works. Once a soldier was vaccinated, he got a lifetime immunity from smallpox. Washington ordered all of his troops vaccinated for smallpox, and with no exemptions, no opt-out. Washington informed John Hancock of his decision. Hancock was the president of the Continental Congress at the time. Neither Hancock nor any other member of Congress objected to Washington’s decision to make smallpox vaccination mandatory. So – we actually know that the Founding Fathers were not opposed to mandatory vaccination.
Below is a famous photo taken around 1900 of two 16 year old boys. Both were exposed to smallpox at the same time. One boy was vaccinated. The other was not. This photo appeared in newspapers all over the U.S.

THE TARSES THEORY OF VACCINATION.

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Berkeley is a center of the anti-vax movement. The #1 and #2 schools in California within the highest percentage of unvaccinated children are both here in Berkeley. According to Berkeleyside, at the Berkeley Rose Waldorf School, only 29% of kindergartners have been vaccinated. This isn’t because the parents don’t understand the risks. These are pricey private schools, and almost all the parents have at least one college degree. This also isn’t because there is less need today for vaccinating children than there used to be. Measles cases in the U.S. are now at a 25 year high. So, will Berkeley parents get their kids vaccinated for Covid once the vaccine becomes generally available? Although I am constantly telling people not to play amateur doctor, I am going to do that now. I have come up with vaccination advice that is a compromise. I have something in it to please the doctors and something to please the anti-vaxxers. Here it is, the Tarses Theory of Vaccination: If you are a parent, you don’t need to vaccinate all your children. You only need to vaccinate the ones you want to keep. What do you think? Will that please everyone? Below is a famous photo of 2 boys, both age 16, taken around 1900. This photo appeared in newspapers around the world. Both boys were exposed to smallpox at the same time and from the same source. One boy was vaccinated. The other boy wasn’t.

COVID VACCINATION CERTIFICATES.


Saga Cruise Line has become the first cruise ship company to require that all passengers have proof of Covid vaccination. I expect that by summer, all the other cruise ship lines will require this as well. By Fall, I think we are all going to be carrying proof of vaccination in order to get into places, like colleges and dorms. My second guess is that society is going to have a lot of trouble from people into conspiracy theories, not just the anti-vaxxers. For example, a lot of websites claim that Covid vaccines contain tracking microchips or some voodoo drug that turns people into mindless zombies. Have you ever noticed that the more preposterous a conspiracy theory is, the more likely people are to believe it? It reminds me of Dr. Goebbel’s (Hitler’s propaganda minister) theory that people are far more likely to believe a big lie rather than a small one.