Have you ever had a COVID-19 test? I have, and it’s a very unpleasant experience. Basically, a nurse sticks a long, stick-mounted cotton swab — think of an eight-inch-long Q-Tip — up your nose to obtain the ‘material’ to be tested. In every state in the union, if you have not consented to this, it would be considered an assault. Does the Los Angeles Unified School District plan on making public education, something required by state law, to be contingent on consenting to be assaulted?
LAUSD to require COVID-19 testing for all students and staff, regardless of vaccination status
by: Sareen Habeshian, Jennifer McGraw |Posted: July 29, 2021 | 2:31 PM PDT | Updated: July 29, 2021 | 11:39 PM PDT
The Los Angeles Unified School District will require all students and employees who are returning for in-person instruction to participate in weekly COVID-19 testing — regardless of vaccination status, the district announced Thursday.
“This is in accordance with the most recent guidance from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health,” Interim Superintendent Megan K. Reilly said in a statement.
Really? The LAUSD employees are unionized. Have the District gotten the OK from the employees’ unions for this? What union is going to approve of this kind of employment condition?
- LAUSD, the nation’s second-largest school district, had previously said that fully vaccinated students and employees would not require testing. But as schools district-wide prepare to reopen for in-person instruction on Aug. 16, L.A. Unified said it’s closely monitoring evolving health conditions and adapting its response. . . . .
In addition to regular testing, safety measures will include: masking for all students, staff and visitors; maximizing physical distancing as much as possible; continuing comprehensive sanitizing efforts, including frequent hand washing; upgraded air filtration systems; and collaborating with health partners and agencies to support free COVID-19 vaccination.
And since the vaccines have not yet been approved for children 11-years-old and younger, that means almost every student through the fifth grade will be unvaccinated. Even if the LAUSD changes its mind, and allows vaccinated students and employees to skip the weekly testing, the District are still planning on physically assaulting every student from pre-school through the fifth grade.
- “Ultimately, the greatest protection against COVID and the Delta variant is vaccination,” L.A. Unified said in its statement Thursday. “We encourage everyone who is eligible to be vaccinated.”
Really? You don’t plan on having vaccinations make any difference in how you treat students and employees!
The state is required, by law, to provide ‘free’ public education for every student who wants it, and compulsory attendance laws require all school-aged children to be educated. How is the LAUSD going to impose such a rule?
Yes. Employees will be paid for their time; 2 hours for COVID-19 testing and 3 hours if for getting vaccinated.
https://www.seiu99.org/2021/04/19/lausd-qa-on-covid-19-issues-2/
The new covid tests are self administered
The Hirsute One was more detailed in a comment on The Pirate’s Cove which referenced this article:
Tell us, O Hirsute One, just how far up the nostril must one insert these swabs? Because if it’s very far at all, how does one know that the swabbed material was retrieved from far enough up the nose?
In a world in which first graders have to be tested, are we going to rely on the proficiency of first graders to self administer these tests?
L A may have and does have many illegals whom are carrying Covid. I have no problem with testing anyone whom may be a carrier. LA is in a danger zone.