Vaccine Mandate Controversy in Florida Schools

Our vaccination policies are in place to advance the common good.

This position is rooted in our catechism.

Life and physical health are precious gifts entrusted to us

by God.

Great.

So then maybe he could explain

why teachers

at Catholic schools in Florida are exempt from any

vaccine mandate.

In fact, all diocesan staff are exempt from any vaccine mandates.

So while students are being told vaccines

are good for them to prevent spread of

disease, and they must get the vaccines because

it's for the

common good,

the teachers

are exempt. They don't need to be vaccinated.

Even though teachers are arguably far more likely to spread

infection than

students, considering it's the teacher's classroom,

she's the one

spending the hour talking to the class, interacting with the students sometimes

closely. Not to mention she's the one who's

organized and arranged and

therefore touched with her hands, possibly infectious hands,

many of the items in her classroom.

So the diocese is perfectly willing to follow Florida law with regard to

exemption

of diocesan employees from having to get vaccinated.

The bishop has never raised any objections against that law

by arguing about, quote, advancing the common good

and requiring that employees get jabbed.

And yet that's the same argument he's using to force

students to get jabbed. Please make it

make sense.

And I have a feeling that if this is brought up in court

by the attorney general, the, the court is also going to

wonder about this double standard here, because that's what it looks like.