Her Choice: One exceptional student’s stand against UConn’s Covid policy

Submitted by CTInsideInvestigator t3_z6ubrc in Connecticut

Phoebe was not a typical student. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants and homeschooled by her mother out of their home in Windsor, she was admitted to UConn at the age of 16 with roughly $50,000 in scholarships from various awarding institutions. Overall, things were going well.

By January 2022, however, it was all gone.

What happened to Phoebe? 

Read the investigation: https://insideinvestigator.org/her-choice-one-exceptional-students-stand-against-uconns-covid-policy/

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Fretboard t1_iy37ef1 wrote

More garbage from the right wing Yankee Institute.

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Paul_Thrush t1_iy362pp wrote

It's an overly long article building Phoebe up as some kind of wonderful, exceptional student and person while mocking Covid vaccines as dangerous and risky. I couldn't stomach the whole article, but I suppose she refused the vaccine and lost enough of her scholarships that she had to drop out.

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Johnny_Appleweed t1_iy4hxxl wrote

Unless OP changed the link, the currently linked article doesn’t mock vaccines at all - it actually seems to support both the vaccines themselves and UConn’s policy.

It does let many of Phoebe’s claims go unchallenged, but overall I think it tells the story of a girl who was given many chances to continue her education and chose to throw it all away.

She was actually given a non-medical exemption for vaccination. But then she refused to do the weekly testing that was required (after an initially confusing email where she thought it was optional), using increasingly dubious excuses to refuse multiple different tests.

Bottom line is she did this to herself. She chose to die on this hill rather than continue her education.

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klop2031 t1_iy9ai65 wrote

Noticed the article said that the people from mexico live in landfills?

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Ftheyankeei t1_iy3bjap wrote

FUCK OFF YANKEE INSTITUTE

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1234nameuser t1_iy38djs wrote

lols, maybe her mom should've taught her more about vaccines during homeschooling

It was a very simple testing regime for her to comply with in order for her to continuing to endanger the public at large while attending school, NOT rocket science by any means.

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GabeDanis t1_iy3tmrp wrote

Yeah and it was all for nothing. You dildos can memory hole as much as you want. Your 10 trillion dollar endeavor got us nowhere other than a massive wealth transfer to the wealthy and a recession. The current covid death rate is literally the vaccination rate.

Check out the NSW Data (UHHHHH IS THIS A VALID SOURCE? SNOPES SAYS IT'S UNCLEAR EVEN THOUGH IT'S FROM THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF)

For a group of people that claim to use scientific reasoning to draw their conclusions, they sure do use a lot of faith based reasoning to arrive at them.

You literally think making a talented student jump through hoops for nothing is appropriate because your tribe said so. You people are so beguiled and stupid. A year ago you were telling us all how we were going to die, how if you weren't vaccinated you were a bad person, etc. All the data supports that it was an exercise in futility.

And literally as soon as the media stopped pumping you full of fear porn (because the data wasn't supporting the vaccine endeavor), you douchebags just moved on to the next thing because your pea brains need constant validation, and no better way to do it than to support the current thing. Overnight, it was on to Ukraine, then Monkeypox (but briefly, because only gay people were getting it and that might create homophobia), then abortion, and on and on and on.

Finally, to come off with the smarmy attitude after all of this time is just amazing. Whoever convinced you idiots that you were smart/virtuous because you blindly follow the MSM deserves a fucking medal.

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BlkOwndYtFam t1_iy3bb4s wrote

The vaccine doesn't prevent transmission, rendering your entire argument moot.

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1234nameuser t1_iy3p8re wrote

Vaccines can dramatically shorten the period of transmission post-infection.

Yes, vaccinations are a very important tool to reducing transmission rates.

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BlkOwndYtFam t1_iy3wbsl wrote

Are you a bot? The mRNA vaccine does not do this!

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Luxurydeals365 t1_iy3dzc6 wrote

Almost no vaccine prevents transmission, they reduce transmission.

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BlkOwndYtFam t1_iy3f0rk wrote

Lmfao. They prevent INFECTION. You're so entirely demoralized.

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Luxurydeals365 t1_iy3f6m4 wrote

Well…. Reducing infection by definition reduces transmission.

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BlkOwndYtFam t1_iy3hy2h wrote

No it emphatically does not and the mRNA vaccine doesn't reduce infection. What rock have you been hiding under?

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GabeDanis t1_iy3u3a4 wrote

They can't rationalize that their genius minds have allowed them to be led by the nose for the last 3 years.

Seriously, some of these people belong in an insane asylum.

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nobird36 t1_iy357rp wrote

She was an idiot and made poor choices.

That was easy.

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GabeDanis t1_iy3ump8 wrote

You dildos spent 10 trillion dollars to prevent the sniffles amongst people her age, but she's the one who made the bad choice. Do you get a gold star for making the 70 IQ covidiots bark and clap? The ones who still haven't made sense of this whole thing?

The article even states she adhered to the initial guidelines and they baited and switched her. Leave the echo chamber and think for yourself for once.

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hamhead t1_iy3z5qw wrote

Even if that was entirely true, it doesn't change the statement. The school set requirements. She didn't follow them.

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GabeDanis t1_iy42yqn wrote

It is entirely true. People in their 20s are hardly affected by covid, regardless of vaccination status. They do the exact same shit as they did before when they got sick, literally nothing changed.

That's on top of the fact that the requirements themselves do absolutely nothing other than create a capricious punishment to those who didn't go along with a government health guidance that was demonstratively ineffective. Even if she did everything they asked, it wouldn't have made an iota of difference and to argue otherwise is to say that we should never leave our fucking rooms. It's that simple.

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Ayatollah-X t1_iy3c88k wrote

The author should go to the News-Times to write obituaries for a few years and learn to be concise. If he wants to write for conservative media, he can’t be that boring unless he comes from money (and with a WestConn degree, that’s probably not the case).

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hamhead t1_iy3z2wh wrote

What happened? She failed to follow school requirements.

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I'm not sure why this article exists other than that some people have decided schools haven't always had medical requirements.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_iy3rba7 wrote

Her and her mom are dumbasses that got tricked into making decisions adverse to their best interests regarding health, hygiene, and education.

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osrs_kwanoo t1_iy3gq99 wrote

A couple geniuses who commented here seemed not to have read the article before giving their opinion. Let’s not do that people, be better.

According to the article, Phoebe followed the procedures outlined by the school for a vaccine exemption and adhered to what she signed. The school then changed the “recommended” weekly testing to “mandatory” after she agreed and signed off on the initial terms of the exemption. I’m not sure the legality of that change or even if the school had the power to change the terms after an agreement was signed, but that seems to be the main problem here. Phoebe eventually conceited to a mandatory test only to find out the testing kit was actually a DNA research kit that said it would not be used for diagnosis. She refused to consent to DNA research on her body which is a fair choice to make, and as such lost her scholarships and was unable to register for classes. It appears there were other testing options offered which she gave reasons for declining, such as carcinogenic substances on a nose swab.

This isn’t a case of someone blatantly refusing to comply or follow procedures. Phoebe seems to have taken the right steps for an exemption as was UConn policy, but ultimately lost her education when the policy was changed after she agreed to it and was then asked to take a suspicious DNA research test. A woman’s access to education was restricted because of this, and barely a year later you can go out in public and see 0 people wearing masks with 0 covid restrictions in most areas.

Vaccine politics aside, it’s worth questioning UConn’s changing policies and the effect on students, the test that said it was for research purposes and not for any medical diagnosis, and the severe consequences of trying to push back against a system that seems to have completely moved on from Covid not even a year later.

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CaptServo t1_iy3kc21 wrote

>Updates to these requirements may be made based on evolving University, state and federal public health guidance.
You understand that by submitting this form, if granted an exemption,
your name and vaccination status will be shared to the extent necessary
to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements for
unvaccinated individuals. You agree to comply with these restrictions
and accept the responsibility for compliance with all health and safety
requirements.

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osrs_kwanoo t1_iy3kpc7 wrote

It would seem Phoebe didn’t read the fine print as well as she claims then, assuming this was on the form she signed

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Phantastic_Elastic t1_iy85g08 wrote

It's stupid enough that she wanted an exemption in the first place

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osrs_kwanoo t1_iy865r8 wrote

How so?

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Phantastic_Elastic t1_iy8ap9m wrote

Plague rats gonna plague, amirite?

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osrs_kwanoo t1_iy8bk43 wrote

Damn I was hoping for a real conversation not just a meme response, oh well.

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Phantastic_Elastic t1_iy8fkux wrote

No you weren't, you were hoping to spread your plague rat propaganda. It's still as stupid as it was in 2020.

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osrs_kwanoo t1_iy8ghry wrote

Interesting how you think you know what I wanted to do. I have no propaganda to spread, I’m actually quite anti propaganda since I believe everyone should think critically about the world and not be brainwashed by others. Really I was just hoping to get specifically your input as to why you think it’s stupid to seek an exemption. Many people received exemptions for medical/religious/philosophical reasons, I wouldn’t see some of those as stupid so I wanted to get your side of it. It’s ok if you can’t have a genuine conversation about it, not all of us are able to communicate our thoughts effectively :)

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GabeDanis t1_iy3utz0 wrote

What a bunch of spiteful losers in this thread. Sorry your stupid little game didn't turn out and people who didn't get a vaccine that didn't work at all didn't all die. Keep telling yourselves how wonderful you are.

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raptoryzb t1_iy7dyk6 wrote

I never understood why science majors are so misinformed of vaccines. Yes, emergency use but, getting COVID is so much worse.

Also, the components she was worried about from the nasal swab...the dose makes the poison. Too much of anything (even water) will destroy you.

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Time_Yam301 t1_iy4010q wrote

The Yankee Institute sucks, but I think we can all agree it's time to move on from draconian Covid policies at all levels. It's been nearly three years, and every attempt at containment like this has failed - even truly draconian policies like in China. Covid is never going away, and the only thing we can hope for is herd immunity or better vaccines. I don't have the qualifications to say one way or the other.

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