J.D. Vance Rails Against Ohio State’s Vaccine Mandate, Claims They Are an “Invasion of Medical Privacy”

Writing successful an op-ed for The Columbus-Dispatch, Ohio senatorial campaigner J.D. Vance, the writer of the best-selling Hillbilly Elegy, railed against Ohio State University’s (OSU) vaccine mandate, calling it “an penetration of aesculapian privacy, and a implicit bait-and-switch.”

Vance claimed that astir students who chose to be OSU did truthful due to the fact that it did not initially mandate vaccines arsenic a information for attendance. Its determination to enforce a vaccine mandate, coming aft the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had afloat approved Pfizer’s vaccine, according to Vance, infringes connected what these students had initially agreed to.

“Many radical chose OSU implicit different schools due to the fact that it didn’t mandate a vaccine. Those students and their families committed to OSU: they paid tuition, made plans, and turned down different schools. Now, having reached the constituent of nary return, they larn that OSU has changed its policy,” helium said. “Second, the argumentation suffers from the confused messaging truthful communal successful today’s fear-heightened environment… Third, these are caller vaccines and portion they’ve been proven harmless successful the abbreviated term, the semipermanent risks are intolerable to cognize astatine this point. “

Vance’s anti-vaccination points continued––he ignored the information that the vaccines person been proven to beryllium harmless (otherwise the FDA would not person allowed them to beryllium distributed nether an exigency usage authorization) oregon that determination is nary discernible grounds that the vaccines person semipermanent effects connected people, fixed that hundreds of millions of radical person been inoculated since December 2020 with nary side-effects.

Vance claimed that the “decision to not get vaccinated is often rooted successful caution astir semipermanent risks, not a rejection of subject oregon the severity of COVID. That caution indispensable beryllium allowed successful a escaped society, not stamped retired done mandates” and that “society needs to respect bodily autonomy and household choice.”

Covid-19 cases successful Ohio person deed a 7-month high. Governor Mike DeWine (R) has said that the mode retired of the pandemic is “to get much radical vaccinated,” noting that “our numbers are going up and it coincides with schools going backmost successful session.”