Thank you for opening the comment section. I am opposing this mandate. This is neither North Korea nor Nazi Germany. We are not experimenting in children, are we now?! What's next: the Gas chamber for the unvaccinated? Labor camps for the religious?
You do not have long-term effects data. Long-term in the medical community is at least 4 years. So what do we have now? At most, 10 months. Not good enough considering you intend to mandate an injection with a biological agent( !!) that has never ever, in the entire history of humanity, been deployed for wide-spread use, not in adults, and especially not in children.
I understand the need to protect the general public and wanting to get Covid under control. The vaccine does not do anything, literally nothing, to prevent COVID. A vaccinated person still transmits and catches COVID. So at most, which is still questionable, the COVID injection MAY lower the symptoms. Children are hardly affected by the virus. I don't subscribe to the notion that only children can be asymptomatic carriers. Because adults carry Covid asymptomatically too. The COVID injection does NOT prevent that.
Educate, inspire and work with the communities to make sure that everyone has the best knowledge available at their disposal. That also includes proper medical education about benefits versus risks. This can only be done by a medical professional (aka a doctor) because every individual needs to be separately assessed medically. This also requires a full blood work panel, mental and physiological health evaluation. None of which you seem to want to abide by because all I hear is: "let's shove this down the people's throats". This gives me the impression all of you are shareholders of some COVID pharma stock and get financial kick backs for indoctrination, pardon, mandatory inoculation.
There are preventive medications out there. If you really wanted to help stop/prevent the spread of COVID, why don't you try to secure a contract with the company that makes "SaNOtize" and "Taffix". Read about these nasal sprays that have been used effectively to curb the spread of Covid entering through the Nasal cavities. It would be awesome if these could be offered at low or no cost to all Virginians, prescribed by a medical professional the moment the patients tests positive for Covid. Imagine the shining example you would set for the rest of the country. No more divisive policies, draconian mandates and Orwellian government overreaches.
Instead, offer easily accessible, TRULY preventive medicine that may actually stop an individual from succumbing to the Virus and the injection. Mandate increases in nursing staff in hospitals and access to free Healthcare clinics around the state, even in rural areas. Research and contract with companies that want to treat (in addition to prevention). Place Mobile hand-washing stations around the state, so that even homeless folks have a chance at hygiene. Offer easy and affordable access to fresh fruit and veggies by subsidizing local hard-working farmers to provide healthy fresh veggies to schools instead of pre-packaged, processed garbage that induces diabetes and hypertension in our young children. How many lives could be saved!
Are you, as a state entity, assuming medical injury risk? So that I can sue you in the event that your mandate causes my disability.
