ANALYSIS: If the goal is to prevent infection, the 95 percent vaccination rate on Cornell’s campus has not accomplished that
Cornell University has aggressively pushed its students to get vaccinated, announcing a vaccine mandate for the 2021-22 academic year in April and frequently denying religious and medical exemptions.
As a result, 95 percent of the campus population, both students and faculty, is vaccinated.
Despite this, Cornell University has more than five times the amount of confirmed positive cases during its first week of this academic year than it did during its first week of the 2020-21 academic year, according to the Cornell COVID dashboard.
By the numbers, during the first week of school that ran from Aug. 27 to Sept. 2 of this academic year, Cornell reported 322 positive COVID-19 cases.
In comparison, during the first week of school last year, which ran from Sept. 3 through Sept. 9 of 2020, Cornell reported 59 positive COVID-19 cases.
That is 263 more cases, or more than five times the amount of positive cases, when comparing the first week of school.
Most students attended in-person classes in the fall of 2020 and were required to wear masks, just like this academic year. The increase in positive cases cannot be attributed to an increase in testing — in fact, more tests were administered in the first week last fall, according to the Cornell COVID dashboard.
From Sept. 3 through Sept. 9 of 2020, there were 28,951 COVID tests administered, according to the Cornell COVID dashboard. There were only 59 positive tests, or a 0.2 percent positivity rate.
In contrast, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 2 of this year, only 27,103 tests were administered, finding 322 positive cases, or a 1.19 percent positivity rate.
No variable changed: Cornell announced in July that it would still require all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear a mask while inside. The same public health measures, often criticized as too strict, that were in place last year remain in place this year.
Due to the high amount of positive cases the Ithaca campus is currently experiencing, President Martha Pollack warned classes may be moved online if the trend continues. Meanwhile, the campus has been moved to a “Code Yellow.”
If the goal is to prevent infection, the 95 percent COVID-19 vaccination rate on Cornell’s campus has not accomplished that.
As Cornell and many other universities across the country mandate these vaccines, one must ask: to what extent are the vaccines effective? Do the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks for healthy 20-year-olds?
In August, the CDC director admitted the COVID-19 vaccines cannot prevent transmission. Cornell’s recent case surge is further evidence of that.
The risk of an adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine, while minute, is not zero.
According to CDC and FDA data, the mRNA vaccines have been linked to increased risk of myocarditis, a serious heart condition, in young people, particularly young men. While this reaction to the vaccine is exceedingly rare, the connection between the mRNA vaccines and myocarditis is higher than previously thought.
Further, Dr. Robert Malone, one of the founders of mRNA vaccines, warned on evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein’s podcast that the spike protein received from vaccination is, in his medical opinion, cytotoxic.
And according to information released by the Japanese government in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the lipid concentrations from the Pfizer vaccine concentrate overwhelmingly in the ovaries and also bone marrow.
Why on earth would Cornell force its students to receive this vaccine?
To be clear, Americans who are elderly, immunocompromised, or suffer from a serious underlying condition should definitely get the vaccine. But even in those cases, they must still have the freedom to make such a decision for themselves.
Cornell’s draconian COVID-19 policies have failed, and now the administration’s promises about a normal, mask-free academic year in return for achieving “herd immunity” have come crashing down against the cold reality we all face.
If the vaccines cannot prevent infection and return us to normalcy, what then, is the point of returning to campus at all?
Editor’s note: The author of this piece has requested and been denied a religious exemption from Cornell’s vaccine mandate. He received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine in June.
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College Fix is a tremendous publication by the way.
“While this reaction to the vaccine is exceedingly rare…”
REALLY? Adverse reactions to this vax exceed ALL adverse reactions to ALL vaccines COMBINED for the past thirty years… Chip
“Rare” appears to have been redefined to mean something that happens frequently, but is not welcome in the narrative.
Rare is defined as something that is not reported by the mainstream prestitutes.
“Despite.”
It’s all about power…..and in many cases the stupidity applied in the quest for power.
“the lipid concentrations from the Pfizer vaccine concentrate overwhelmingly in the ovaries and also bone marrow.”
On the bright side, this may prevent stupid people from reproducing.
I believe that’s the sole criteria for a Darwin award :))
So I’ll ask the question that I asked my friend I recently went golfing with who said he had covid. I asked how he knew he had covid. He said he got tested and it was positive. And I said, oh they took you blood and sent it off to a lab? He said, no, they raped his nose with a swab (those are my words sorry I couldn’t help it). I said you know they can’t tell if you have covid with that test and the CDC said in their own words the test is BS, right? He said oh no I really had it because he had all the symptoms. I asked what symptoms he had and he went on to describe a common cold. Since I like him, I didn’t say to him BS you had covid. I just said oh ok and moved on.
We need to stop reporting people with vaxxes are getting covid because it plays in to their narrative. They weren’t diagnosed with covid short of a true lab result. Other than that, there is no test for covid
So the author argues a case against taking the ‘vaccine’ because its a fail, it causes serious injuries and is draconian in practice.
Then gets the very shot he’s arguing against…. muh job… Pretty much destroys his credibility and tells you his principles are none existent. Or just a coward.
And he doesn’t tell how many students had to be treated on an ICU because of Covid. The usual hogwash, appearing critical, but pushing the “pandemic”.
I was just listening to a Wim Hoff video last night. The Iceman talked about the adaptive immune system.
He mentioned Bone Marrow!
This is clearly the unvaccinated’s fault.
DR. MICHAEL YEADON – FINAL WARNING! Under 4 minutes
https://www.brighteon.com/e1caeb15-7d67-4ba0-9af9-02e8df3d7f98
Anyone paying for a diploma from institutions run by moronic idiots deserves the worthless piece of crap degree they earn.
“The author of this piece has requested and been denied a religious exemption from Cornell’s vaccine mandate. He received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine in June.”
Hmmmm……,kind of sad.
“To be clear, Americans who are elderly, immunocompromised, or suffer from a serious underlying condition should definitely get the vaccine. ”
If Dr. Malone and many others are correct, and the spike protein is cytotoxic, leading to ADE, then absolutely no one should get this jab.
Indeed, raising one’s D level, zinc level, taking quercetin, and having nebulized H2O2 and Ivermectin at the ready seem like far better ways of staying safe and healthy. And with a compromised immune system, how is one supposed to benefit from a “vaccine” anyway??
BECAUSE of the 95% “vaccination” rate……