Jab Crazed Liberal CA University Set To Discriminate Against Students, And It’s Not Even Over COVID

BERKELEY, CA – According to a report from Outkick, UC Berkeley intends to impose a mask mandate on all students who’ve opted not to get a flu vaccine this year.

Ever since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, a craze seemed to manifest around masks that eventually fomented into mask mandates being instituted everywhere, from private businesses, public institutions to even government buildings in some cases.

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And while most of the general public are just about sick and tired of mask mandates stemming from COVID, some institutions and various zealots simply can’t let go of them – and now the flu is being invoked in order to compel masking up at UC Berkeley.

On UC Berkeley’s website, there is a section dedicated to “mask requirements” where it notes that “Masks are strongly recommended, but not required, indoors — regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status,” whereas when it comes to flu season, “Masks are required during flu season if not vaccinated for flu.”

This policy of masking up during the flu season at UC Berkeley appears to mirror the one imposed in October of 2021 where the school instituted a flu vaccine mandate, but students weren’t actually mandated to get the vaccine as they could simply provide a declination form. However, by submitting a declination during last year’s flu season, students had to mask up “through the end of the influenza season (usually through April).”

Per the report from Outkick, the data regarding masks and the historical efficacy of flu vaccines point to the mandate on students unvaccinated for the flu to be essentially pointless.

Referencing the Cochrane Library’s summary on available studies on mask efficacy when it pertains to the flu, the entity noted, “Seven studies took place in the community, and two studies in healthcare workers. Compared with wearing no mask, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness (9 studies; 3,507 people); and probably makes no difference in how many people have flu confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 3,005 people).”

In short, masking up isn’t likely to lower one’s chances of getting infected with the flu. But then there is the data regarding the efficacy of flu vaccines, which over the past has bore some fluctuating efficiency in protecting people.

By reviewing the data for over the past five years on flu vaccine efficacy, the average effectiveness sits at around 36% – thereby showcasing that said vaccine is far from a sure thing in terms of protecting oneself.

But something else to keep in mind is that UC Berkeley didn’t start talking about mask mandates for the flu until after the COVID craze, as a cursory Google search from 2015 to 2019 rendered zero results detailing that unvaccinated students needed to wear masks at the campus.

In fact, the only online result related to UC Berkeley and “masks” during the flu season generated an October 2016 blog from UC Berkeley’s website titled, “How do I stay healthy in the dorms,” where one of the contributors suggested, “For something a little more extreme, wear a surgical mask,” during the flu season.

So in 2016, wearing a mask during flu season at UC Berkeley was described as “something a little more extreme,” whereas now, students who haven’t taken a flu vaccine are forced to wear a mask for up to 6 months.

This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on August 31, 2022. It originally appeared on RedVoiceMedia.com and is used with permission.

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