January 17, 2022
Greetings Chicago! Terminated employees from Houston Methodist in Texas deeply empathize with the position you find yourselves in but down here in Texas we call them ‘guinea pigs’ not lab rats as is referenced below in the first legal brief filed in the US on this issue.
ACCESS OUR most recent 5th Circuit Court of Appeals brief here
Seriously, we greatly appreciated The Editorial Board’s submission on January 11, 2022 titled “Editorial: UChicago Must End Its Booster Mandate-We Are Not Lab Rats”.
ACCESS the scathing chigago thinker Editorial/article here
The Board concludes with these demands as follows:
1. We demand that the University of Chicago withdraw its unsafe, ineffective, unnecessary, inconsistent, and unethical vaccine and booster mandates.
2. We demand that the university name those responsible for creating and implementing its COVID decrees, especially with regards to vaccination. We also demand it name those responsible for reviewing and approving both medical and religious exemptions to vaccine and booster mandates.
3. We demand that the university make a public statement to all community members explaining why UCMC staff and BSD personnel are not required to receive boosters, but students and other university employees are.
4. Lastly, we call on all members of our university community to fight back. This mandate is wrong. Do not allow University President Paul Alivisatos’s administration to pretend otherwise.
Signed,
The 2021-2022 Editorial Board of the Chicago Thinker:
Audrey Unverferth (Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, ’22)
Evita Duffy (Managing Editor, ’22)
Declan Hurley (Vice President, ’24)
Matthew Heck (Chief Newsletter Author and Senior Editor, ’22)
Chad Berkich (Senior Editor, ’24)
Sonni Fitzsimonds (Senior Editor, ’22)
Aidan Griffin (Senior Editor, ’23)
Eden Negussie (Senior Editor, ’24)
Mitchell Robson (Senior Editor, ’24)
Primary Author: Eden Negussie (Senior Editor, ’24)
