CHICAGO — Twenty-one Chicago cops were stripped of their police powers Monday over their refusal to disclose their vaccination status to the city. Most of those officers were assigned to CPD headqu…
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The CPD mandate woes have been ubiquitously covered by MSN, Left, & Right, news sources. However, besides general headlines attesting to "1/3 of CPD Defy Mandate", they really haven't been going into the relevant details that more accurately describe the issue beyond the sensationalist headlines.
I'd like to address the situation with a few details, and I'll try to keep it short & succinct:
1] 1/3 of the Police have refused the current city request to submit their vaccination status.
Essentially, that's it in a nutshell. The Police are refusing to share their vax status, even those that are vaccinated. The deadline to report status was last week, OCT 15th. That's where we're currently at - a missed reporting deadline. No other deadlines or other actions have been (yet) broached.
2] There is no 'hard mandate' to vaccinate
Yep. There's
no mandate to vaccinate. There's a test opt-out. The officers need to be tested weekly, which they can bypass if they are vaccinated. The more accurate way to describe this is a, "test mandate". With the test mandate having a vax op-out.
IMO, the City is being reasonable. They are saying,
"Vax, or Test - You Choose!" That's a policy I very much agree with. As a member of the public, who could be subject to physical contact beyond my ability to control it, I want to know the civil servants physically contacting me are not a possible hazard to my health. I think my concerns are reasonable.