“LOYAL READER” writes:

Our daughter left for college this week (she is a freshman), and although she is paying for tuition, room, and a meal plan, she is being treated as less than a criminal. Nearly all courses are conducted online, there is forced masking (even outdoors), daily temperature checks, and an agreement to receive a vaccine when it is available.

She is a student-athlete, and the athletic conference has suspended all fall sports.  So there is not much joy and excitement for this first year on campus.  In the meantime, the tone of the emails from the university officials is one of practically salivating over the idea of vaccinating everyone.  Have any of these PhD’s taken a few seconds to take stock of exactly how many people they actually know who have even been affected (physically) by “Covid”?  I would wager that each person can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of people they know who have had it.  (Assuming tests are accurate, which I also doubt.)

Our daughter is 18 years old, and although we have counseled her, and expressed great disappointment in the direction in which the college is oppressing its customers, she has proceeded to move in.

I have been praying that the LORD would intervene.  Perhaps He is allowing her to have this experience so she will soon come to appreciate that freedom which has been taken for granted.  And, although I have tried to set a good example of prayerful resistance to this great injustice in my own daily activities, I do not feel that I can “make” her not wear a mask, etc., any more than I want to be “made” to wear one.

I can only educate myself and others, and pray.  In addition, I have told her that, although she had to sign a paper agreeing to a vaccine, she will NOT be vaccinated.  If they try it, the university will hear from our attorney (God has put him in our lives recently), and a lawsuit will be filed and/or she will be removed from campus.  Her body will NOT be invaded by a vaccine.  That is my bright line for her as a parent.

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Laura writes:

Your daughter is not only being confined, psychologically abused and treated like a prisoner but she is not truly free to choose another path this fall.

Without a college degree, she is limited in ever getting a job.

Americans are not free to enter much of the labor market without paying $100,00 to $250,000 on what is often an intellectually harmful educational experience. There’s another word for this: indentured servitude. Or slavery.

The college experience doesn’t have to be as expensive as it is — and wouldn’t be this expensive if it weren’t for federally subsidized loans — and it doesn’t have to be poisonous to the mind. But it’s all rigged that way. And now students have to endure a prison-like atmosphere too!

I hope your daughter grows in wisdom and manages the stress. Perhaps this will awaken many young people.

Loyal writes:

AMEN!  I have been trying to look for blessings.  One is that she is not allowed to have “outside” visitors.  While that sounds extremely unfair and limiting (and it is), it does perhaps remove some of the temptations that often arise when young people are away from home.  Also, her “suite mate” sounds like a really nice girl, involved in church, youth group, and missions (according to her school profile).  So things may turn out ok on that front, as much as can be expected.

However, I have a smoldering anger about this entire situation.  When I compare my daughter’s “college experience” to that of a prisoner in a correctional facility, the prisoner makes out much better!  They have access to workout facilities, TV/lounge area, dining facilities, and even outside visitors.  My daughter gets none of this…can’t even use the student lounge in her dorm.  I’m not sure how they are handling the dining, but I know that public school facilities are generally having the kids eat lunch in the classrooms, if they are even meeting for class in-person at school.  So an inmate in a correctional facility pays nothing for their “3 hots and a cot”, while my daughter (inmate in another type of institution), pays a king’s ransom for a much more oppressive environment.  She gets less, and pays much more.  Even the professors are “off the hook” for providing in-person lectures and discussions, while they continue to remind the students to “social distance” and wear masks.  This scam is working very well for them.  Meanwhile, my daughter is practically under house arrest.

I can only hope that she and all the others like her will gain wisdom from this experience about how precious is our freedom, and cast their votes in November accordingly.  In addition, a revolution on the campuses may be necessary.

Laura writes:

You might want to have your daughter ask if she can take her temperature herself with a thermometer that is inserted into the mouth. (She could even do it in front of college officials.)

We don’t know the science of these temperature guns — and they could be harmful. Some say they harm the pineal gland, but I have not researched this yet.

Having one’s temperature taken is a medical exam and should only be conducted by licensed medical professionals.

SB writes:

My daughter and we recently came to an agonizing decision for her to stay home from a top music conservatory for the fall semester.  I am terribly upset and sad for her, and wracked with self-doubt about any influence I might have had as her parent in her final decision.

She has spent her whole life, given generously of her life energy, time, talent, dreams toward singing and music, and very smart (top 10% nationally on SAT’s). She won a huge talent scholarship and grant money to go into vocal performance with classical training at one of the best conservatories in the world.

This fall the Covidians (my brother’s term) in administration planned to turn many of the classes into hybrids of online and in-person, and her private voice lessons 3x/week to online only.  The campus, while open, would be set up like a prison (my words).  Yes, see your friends, but you must be six feet apart at all times!  Masks at all times (including outside), except when you are in your room with door closed.  Dorm lounges and cafés closed, any social place where large groups would congregate is forbidden.  Concert opportunities to watch and to perform drastically decreased, with only 10 people in attendance allowed.  Choirs reduced to small groups six feet apart, singing outside.  Surveillance testing (their term) for ALL students – 1/4 of students/week gets tested, regardless of symptoms; frequent contact with Department of Health with results and follow ups, quarantine measures and contact tracing for positive results. Health and temperature check-ins every morning of every day on campus. They must sign a contract with expulsion threats for noncompliance.  It’s all out of 1984.  And I don’t know where the end is.

All of her close friends are going back. Her world, her friends, her future degree all there on campus this fall, and she’s now stuck alone in the woods of our rural state working at a fast food restaurant with a mask. “They” have closed all the opera houses, including the Met, and she saw how musicians were at the whim of the elite, as so many lost their livelihoods.

Her issue with going back is the quality of the education, lack of opportunity.  My issue is also that but also that it is a prison with loss of liberty and their making student bodies into guinea pigs.

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