For a brief moment after the Biden administration saw the popular revolt brewing against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate, the White House tried to pivot.
Suddenly, the administration inflated a Biden provision that had gotten significantly less attention than the mandate: That those opposed to the mandate could avoid the jab by routinely submitting to COVID-19 testing.
In Los Angeles in January, according to Reason magazine, some high schoolers attending the New West Charter School took their school administrators at their word when they proposed a Bidenesque plan for testing in lieu of shots.
When winter break ended on Jan. 18, some unvaccinated teens showed up at New West Charter armed with a negative COVID test and expecting to attend class.
Instead, they got the cops.
As Reason recounted it, administrators and the teens and their parents spent hours in “tense negotiations” before the Los Angeles Police Department was called in.
Once the cops arrived, the students – all girls – were cordoned off like cattle by elastic line dividers, and denied chairs and bathroom breaks. One student told Reason it “felt like being in a zoo.” At one point, classes ended and other students asked the girls why they were roped off. “Because they’re unvaccinated,” an administrator said, blithely revealing the girls’ private medical information.
Once the day was half over, the school gave the students an ultimatum: leave school or be suspended. They left and have not been back, Reason reported.
Meanwhile, the school is spreading misleading accounts about their girls, claiming they showed up to protest and not attend school.
Reason pointed to how low the risk is, even if they were unvaxxed. Nationally, the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated teenagers is the same as that of vaccinated adults.
“If it’s really about keeping the campus safe, you would’ve taken us up on the offer to test every day,” one of the girls, Ellah Nahum, told Reason. “I’m not expecting to have many friends when I come back.”
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