{"id":2007962,"date":"2023-08-22T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-institutes-mask-mandate-bans-student-gatherings-despite-no-confirmed-covid-cases\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:14:21","slug":"college-institutes-mask-mandate-bans-student-gatherings-despite-no-confirmed-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-institutes-mask-mandate-bans-student-gatherings-despite-no-confirmed-covid-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"College institutes mask mandate and bans student gatherings despite absence of confirmed COVID cases."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-institutes-mask-mandate-bans-student-gatherings-despite-no-confirmed-covid-cases%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Morris\u200c Brown College Reinstates Mask Mandate and\u2062 Bans Student Gatherings<\/h2>\n<p>Morris Brown\u200c College in Atlanta, which began \u2064classes last week, announced Sunday that it was reinstating its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-floats-naming-ted-cruz-and-mike-lee-as-next-conservative-supreme-court-justice\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy suggests Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for conservative SCOTUS justices.\">mask \u2063mandate<\/a> for \u200dstudents and employees to protect against COVID-19, according to\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/atlanta-college-reinstates-mask-mandate-students-employees-campus\/SJVTD4WHBRGFNNVERNUGMIIQVY\/?taid=64e3ad315ec3030001fb1e03&#038;utm_campaign=trueanthem&#038;utm_medium=trueanthem&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WSB-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The college also banned\u200d parties and large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/uncovered-network-doctors-pushing-masks-100-fake-never-existed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">student gatherings<\/a> on its \u2064campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOfficials say there have been no confirmed COVID-19 cases among its\u200c students, but they have received\u200c reports from other schools in the Atlanta University Center,\u201d<\/strong> WSB reported\u2062 Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">mask mandate<\/a> will be in place for the next 14 days, along with \u200dtemperature \u200bchecks when coming to campus, social distancing, and\u2064 contact tracing.<\/p>\n<p>Although the coronavirus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">public health<\/a>\u200b emergency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/your-health\/end-of-phe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially \u2064ended<\/a> earlier this year, vaccination mandates\u2064 linger at\u2062 some colleges and universities\u2064 as they \u2062open the \u2062fall \u200dsemester.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 colleges require students attending \u200cin-person classes to have the\u2063 shots, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/education\/rutgers-will-still-require-covid-vaccine-mask-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News Nation<\/a>, which cited the group No College Mandates.<\/p>\n<p>Morris Brown is among them, according to WSB.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">as someone smart \u2064once said, \u201cas Morris Brown \u2062College goes, \u2062so goes the rest of \u200dthe country\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mmQSL4T01R\">https:\/\/t.co\/mmQSL4T01R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2064 JJ Kasper (@JJ_Kasper) \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JJ_Kasper\/status\/1693970083943526455?\">August 22, \u200d2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Would you \u2062wear a\u2064 mask again if mandated?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According\u200b to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/covid-vaccine-mandate-rutgers-university-1821544\">Newsweek<\/a>, the school\u2064 said its goal was to \u201cminimize outbreaks of COVID-19\u2064 in the Rutgers University community; to prevent and reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 among\u200d all persons\u200c at Rutgers University and\u200c Rutgers-affiliated \u2062healthcare units; and \u200dto promote the public health of the community in a manner consistent with federal, State,\u200b and local efforts to stem the COVID-19 pandemic as well as \u200bfederal and State law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students who are not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ice-cube-tells-tucker-carlson-real-reason-refused-vaccine-lost-9m-acting-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fully\u200d vaccinated<\/a> can\u2019t\u200d attend classes on\u200d campus unless they\u200d have \u2064a medical or \u2064religious exemption.<\/p>\n<p>However, students with \u200dexemptions might\u2063 not \u2063be allowed to live on\u2063 campus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rutgers deserves to lose millions &#038; fail miserably for Communist force\u2062 &#038; Communist thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2063 needs\u200c to BudLight woke universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LibertyDrumbeatz (@drumz3606) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drumz3606\/status\/1692652186302570835?\">August 18, \u20642023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New \u200cJersey\u2064 state Sen. Declan O\u2019Scanlon criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-vaccine-mandates-suffer-another-blow-appeals-court-sides-federal-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the college<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Rutgers, \u2064which should be the preeminent scientific institution, public institution \u2064in \u2062New Jersey, to be clinging to this now \u2064anti-science and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-institutes-mask-mandate-bans-student-gatherings-despite-no-confirmed-covid-cases\/\" title=\"College institutes mask mandate and bans student gatherings despite absence of confirmed COVID cases.\">punishing students \u2014 life-changing punishment<\/a>,\u2064 by the way \u2014 is \u200boutrageous. The administrators at Rutgers\u200b should be ashamed of themselves,\u201d the \u2062Republican said, \u2064according to NewsNation.<\/p>\n<p>In a column for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/why-on-earth-are-these-colleges-still-mandating-covid-19-vaccines-for-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a>, Brad Polumbo said the\u200b mandates are \u201ctruly absurd and indefensible on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-border-agents-are-bracing-for-disaster-expect-170000-illegal-immigrants-in-just-one-month\/\" title=\"Report: Border Agents Are Bracing for \u201cDisaster,\u201d Expect 170,000 Illegal Immigrants in Just One Month\">public health grounds<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo start, COVID-19 vaccine mandates\u2064 on college campuses never made much sense to begin with because most of the population \u200bof a typical campus \u2064\u2014 healthy \u206318-, 19-,\u2064 20-, and 21-year-olds \u2014 \u2062was never at\u2063 significant risk\u200c of death or hospitalization from COVID,\u201d Polumbo wrote. \u201cIf \u200banything, \u2064campuses were much\u200c less vulnerable to the pandemic than almost anywhere else imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cUltimately, \u2062these \u2064mandates aren\u2019t rooted in science or\u2064 public health. \u2064They\u2019re simply \u2062a\u2063 result of deeply ideological campus\u200d administrators wanting to\u2064 assert their \u200ccontrol and signal allegiance to their political tribe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, \u200dwhen it \u200dcomes to matters\u2063 of bodily autonomy \u2063and medical freedom, that\u2019s no way to make such important \u2064decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/college-institutes-mask-mandate-bans-student-gatherings-despite-no-confirmed-covid-cases\/\">College\u200d Institutes Mask\u2063 Mandate, Bans Student Gatherings Despite No Confirmed COVID Cases<\/a> appeared first\u200b on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morris Brown College in Atlanta reinstated its mask mandate and banned parties and large gatherings on campus to safeguard against COVID-19. Despite no confirmed cases among students, the college prioritizes preventive measures. Classes commenced last week, and the decision aims to ensure a safe environment for students and employees. 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