Current Events > Ohio Gov signs bill banning colleges, schools from requiring coronavirus vaccine

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https://www.cleveland.com/open/2021/07/gov-mike-dewine-signs-bill-banning-colleges-schools-from-requiring-coronavirus-vaccines.html

Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill Wednesday afternoon that prohibits K-12 schools and public colleges from requiring the coronavirus vaccine. House Bill 244 started as a bill to help military children transition to school when they move to and from Ohio. Then, in the flurry of the final days of June before lawmakers went on summer recess, the bill was amended to prohibit schools, universities and other public entitles from requiring vaccines that havent been fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Currently, the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson coronavirus shots are authorized under emergency use. Pfizer filed papers with the federal agency in May, requesting full approval and Moderna made the same request for its shot June 1, according to CNBC. The vaccination ban will affect Cleveland State University, which is requiring all students living in a residence hall in the summer and fall semesters to be vaccinated, unless exempt for a medical or religious reason. A university spokesman previously said that if DeWine signs the bill, the school would adjust their requirement to comply with the law. Other public universities - including University of Toledo, Miami University, Ohio University, University of Akron and Kent State University - have announced coronavirus vaccines will not be required.

HB 244 was politically fraught for DeWine, a Republican who is seeking re-election next year. In the GOP primary, he faces challengers who are further to the right and have been critical of his handling of the coronavirus outbreak, saying he was sacrificing personal liberties with his public health orders. Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, DeWine urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to give the three vaccines full authorization. When we talk to people and hear their vaccine hesitancy, one of the main things we hear is that they tell us its still labeled an emergency -- its been approved on an emergency basis. It is past time for the FDA to take into account that hundreds of millions of people have received these vaccines, and to move (their approval status) from an emergency basis over to a regular basis, DeWine said. I would just plead with them to do that and its very, very important. Lives are frankly at stake.

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America, land of the dumb

1) >Republicans

2) They need to stop allowing "Religious" exemptions for vaccines.
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Bio1590 posted...

They need to stop allowing "Religious" exemptions for vaccines.

What is separation of church and state

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Makeveli_lives posted...

What is separation of church and state

a lie

Makeveli_lives posted...

What is separation of church and state

A feel good term that provides plausible deniability to the claim that our laws are heavily influenced by Christian dogma

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CA seriously cracked down on "religious" and "medical" exemptions about 5 years back. Sent a few doctors issuing "medical" exemptions fraudulently to the clink.

On topic, Ohio is seriously seeking to challenge TX and FL for ridicule. "Buckeye state"? More like "Hold my beer" state.

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Reminds me of when the local teachers union threw a fit because the district wanted to make the vaccine required for teachers this fall, according to them it should "be up to the individual to decide". But the union also was pushing to require students to be vaccinated as soon as their eligible in order to "protect the teachers health". If the teachers want to be protected they should probably get the vaccine, the mental gymnastics some people are pulling to justify their dumbassery in the pandemic is astounding.

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Makeveli_lives posted...

What is separation of church and state

That has nothing to do with that.

There are a half-dozen states that don't allow religious exemptions for vaccines.
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Fucking bitch ass coward.

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K-12 schools and public colleges

Government teat, government strings.

I agree. Emergency use is just that, step your game up FDA

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Unconstitutional bill gonna get overturned and ignored.

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Good. Your body your choice.

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

I agree. Emergency use is just that, step your game up FDA

Unsurprisingly, you don't know how science works. Unlike masks, the approval process should not be politicized. Let the FDA do its work.

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brestugo posted...

Unsurprisingly, you don't know how science works. Unlike masks, the approval process should not be politicized. Let the FDA do its work.

That's what I said

Step your game up FDA

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Republicans are on the side of the virus and death. They want people to die.

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Reverend_Wilson posted...

Good. Your body your choice.

Not when it affects others.

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DeWine started out really strong with coronovirus efforts. He's been brow beaten by a large amount of residents that sent him death threats and shit daily. He'd have no chance of being elected again if he didn't follow the will of the people here. Many of the people are fucking stupid though.

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Yea there are parts of Ohio that so badly want to be in the south.
If you go to Buckeye Lake it is like a permanent NASCAR infield: beer, cornhole, and modified golf carts........yeehaw.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

He'd have no chance of being elected again if he didn't follow the will of the people here.

...and?

Bio1590 posted...

2) They need to stop allowing "Religious" exemptions for vaccines.

It needs to stop in general, really. People shouldn't be exempt from the rules everyone else has to follow just because they believe in some stupid nonsense.

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HIPAA and ADA comingle in weird ways, to the effect that you can ask if someone is vaccinated, but can't ask why not.

Ditch the religious exemption, and all you'll get is a fuckton of "medical" exemptions.

Questionmarktarius posted...

...and?

He'd be replaced with someone that even more closely follows the people's wants...which is fucking insanity. He's a lesser evil here

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Ditch the religious exemption, and all you'll get is a fuckton of "medical" exemptions.

And then the states need to start jailing or removing the medical licenses of the quacks handing out "medical" exemptions.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

HIPAA and ADA comingle in weird ways, to the effect that you can ask if someone is vaccinated, but can't ask why not.

Ditch the religious exemption, and all you'll get is a fuckton of "medical" exemptions.

That's where the state comes in. Jail or "disbar" these fucking "doctors". CA does.

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ThatHorrorGuy posted...

Not when it affects others.

Then your body affects my body because your body is near in that case

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i really like living in Columbus but i dont like living in Ohio because these fucking redneck morons have too much control over my life

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DeWine was actually handling COVID so well in the first couple months, then caved to Ohio's shitstain GOP party.

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