Harvard Student Slams the School’s ‘COVID-Related Excesses,’ Pegs Society’s Sheepishness – Opinion

Many would argue that the days of shepherds are gone, but this is now the age of sheep.

One such person: Harvard student Julie Hartman.

So certain of her conviction, she wrote a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed.

In “Harvard Students Are COVID Sheep,” Julie laments the cancellation of a school tradition. “Housing Day” was 86’d due to pandemic concerns.

She labels the move “the latest in a long list of COVID-related excesses.”

The Ivy League institution’s attendees have bent over backward:

Harvard requires students to be vaccinated, boosters, and to test for Covid once a week. We are also required to wear masks everywhere. Harvard prohibits students from interacting in communal spaces such as dining halls and indoor gatherings of more than 10 persons. My classmates have lost almost a third their time on campus. The aggregate burden of these measures over two years — combined with the discouraging realization that many of them do little to protect public health — has diminished our college experience.

It’s happened across the nation.

In 2008, 18-year olds went to school with excitement. But instead of the most memory-making years of their lives, they encountered single-occupancy dorms, online classes, mandatory muzzling and — in some cases — the necessity of being needled.

As for a social life, it’s hard to have one shrouded and six feet apart.

Yet while the college experience was down, adolescents’ numbers looked up.

Per the CDC’s survivability report in December 2020 — before any vaccine was available:

• 0-19 years: 99.99997
• 20-49 years: 99.9998
• 50-69 years: 99.995
• 70+ years: 99.946

Education tightened however the rules:

Louisiana Governor Mandates Vaccines for Students

New Jersey’s Phil Murphy Will Issue Mask Mandate for Kids in K-12

The University will punish unvaccinated students by cutting their internet service

Texas School District Issues Mask Mandate — for COVID, but Also ‘Flu’ and ‘Cold’

Students are forced to jump through hoops during several semesters at the cost of normal learning experiences. Are these leaps good for their health?

Some people believe it.

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It’s been said the ultimate control isn’t the power to imprison someone, but rather the ability to convince them to imprison themselves.

It could also apply in the last couple of years.

Perhaps the university mindset has evolved. Perhaps the American one too has changed.

Perhaps it was the unexpected consequences of pro-vaccine portraits that said it best.

A shepherd in Germany really organized his sheep into the shape of a syringe in order to promote the Covid vaccine https://t.co/FgwEQ9l6lC

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) January 4, 2022

After all, many of those who’ve instituted mandates haven’t lived by their own rules.

Julie is right, this description fits more Harvard students than Julie.

There is a…group…that apparently [finds]These restrictions are a pleasure. These students will chastise you for not wearing a mask correctly and called one of my brave peers who publicly denounced Harvard’s Covid restrictions a “eugenicist” because he supposedly showed insufficient sensitivity to immunocompromised people. COVID is a moral high ground that allows them to control and condescend over others.

She’s on the other side:

I ask my friends, “Why do young, fully vaccinated students continue to tolerate these irrational COVID restrictions?” While many of my peers acknowledge the excess, they shrug it off. Resignation, learn helplessness, and reluctance for dissent are the dominant moods on campus.

“To get into this university,” she writes, “we chose to detach ourselves from normal human experiences, neglecting our interests, hobbies, robust social lives — anything that couldn’t appear on a college application or be touted in an interview. Almost everything in life was subordinate to whatever was necessary…”

Societally, we’ve done much of the same.

Julie and her friends will, naturally, be awarded degrees.

Was will all the rest of us show?

May America graduate to normalcy.

Although we may not be able to gain herd immunity, it is possible that we will lose our herd mentality.

-ALEX

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