{"id":1167,"date":"2022-01-04T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paragoninstitute.org\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/universities-covid-policies-defy-science-and-reason\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:38:30","slug":"universities-covid-policies-defy-science-and-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paragoninstitute.org\/public-health\/universities-covid-policies-defy-science-and-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities’ Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Parents and students should challenge dogma with data.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Universities are supposed to be bastions of critical thinking, reason and logic. But the Covid policies they have adopted\u2014policies that have derailed two years of students\u2019 education and threaten to upend the upcoming spring semester\u2014have exposed them as nonsensical, anti-scientific and often downright cruel.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Some of America\u2019s most prestigious universities are leading the charge\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
At these institutions of higher learning and thousands more, science is supposedly held in the highest esteem. So where is the scientific support for masking outdoors? Where is the scientific support for constantly testing fully vaccinated young people? Where is the support for the confinement of asymptomatic, young people who test positive for a virus to which they are already immune on a campus of other immune people?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The data simply do not justify any of it\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
For the past two years, this country has imposed extensive, and often unnecessary, restrictions on over 54 million school-age children, even though they are the least likely group to suffer serious consequences of a Covid infection. Instead, we have damaged their education, kept them from seeing human faces, and treated them as vectors without a right to a normal childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n