Logan Hollar is a psychology major at Rutgers University, which may help him understand something few others do: the lunacy over unvaccinated people.
Belying the fact that it’s run by some of the smartest people in New Jersey, Rutgers banned Hollar from taking classes during the fall semester because he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The university’s ban applies even though the 22-year-old lives in Sandyston, New Jersey, some 70 miles away, and despite the fact that he was taking only virtual classes.
Rutgers had imposed a vaccine mandate in March on students headed there this fall.
“We are committed to health and safety for all members of our community, and adding COVID-19 vaccination to our student immunization requirements will help provide a safer and more robust college experience for our students,” university President Jonathan Holloway said in a statement at the time.
Rutgers was reportedly the first university in the country to mandate vaccines and did so even though two of three jabs then available were not authorized for people under 18 at the time.
Yet the university also waived the vaccine requirement for students who were enrolled in online programs.
Hollar is an outlier, according to NJ.com, as 98.8 percent of Rutgers students have complied with the mandate.
Yet apparently, Hollar, like most people with common sense, assumed virtual meant the same thing as online. Ah, but then he’s not a university administrator.
Rutgers spokeswoman Dory Devlin, proving Orwell’s maxim that some ideas are so ridiculous that only intellectuals believe them, told NJ.com, “Registering for classes that are fully remote (synchronous/asynchronous) is not the same as being enrolled in a fully online degree-granting program.”
Glad she cleared that up.
As one Twitter user said in posting on Hollar’s plight, “Wow, when did Chinese COVID-19 become an INTERNET computer VIRUS”?
“I’m not in an at-risk age group. I’m healthy and I work out. I don’t find COVID to be scary,” Hollar told NJ.com. “If someone wants to be vaccinated, that’s fine with me, but I don’t think they should be pushed.”
“I find it concerning for the vaccine to be pushed by the university rather than my doctor,” he said. “I’ll probably have to transfer to a different university.”
“I don’t care if I have access to campus. I don’t need to be there. They could ban me. I just want to be left alone,” he said.
As most of us do.
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