Please don’t act surprised when I tell you this story isn’t about the Commies at Dartmouth College. But the mindscape is similar. The centralization of health data, compiled for the use of an institution other than your doctor and hospital. One Small Step for erasing privacy One Giant Step for the Collective.
This poster child is the University of Pennsylvania. They want students to hand over their private health records, so someone offered them a bribe. If 95% of a class coughs up the goods, we’ll give that class $25,000.00 for an end-of-year party (they may not even allow).
The Ivy League university dangled $25K to celebrate annual class traditions, “[if] 95% or more students from any class year upload[ed] their booster shot and flu vaccine information and complete[ed] their biweekly surveillance tests by Feb. 28,” The Daily Pennsylvanian reported.
The class traditions are annual events to celebrate the completion of another school year.
The university’s chief wellness officer said the purpose of the incentive was to encourage “good behaviors and smart choices.”
Here’s a “good behavior” for anyone looking to live in a less intrusive (or even free) society. Defend privacy and individual rights: support two-parent families, local control, hard work. You should also stay away from indoctrination centers, but this is an Ivy League school, so too late for that, or is it.
According to LifeSite News, only 6 in 10 students took the bait across all four years. No one achieved the required 95%. So, how many cougher-uppers are interrogating their classmates to discover who is slowing their roll?
Are any Profs putting pressure on these would-be, could-be future leaders?
Who decided that their vaccine status and the records required to show them was their own business?
We know it’s 40% of the student body, but this is still a significant margin of rejection and a good thing.
“We are very hopeful that we will get to release and remove restrictions, which is why we are hopeful that the events we tied the money to will happen,” Ashlee Halbritter, the university’s executive director of public health and wellbeing, told the campus newspaper.
Maybe there are some smart kids in Ivy League schools, after all.
