The Rampage Nov 2021

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Question of the Week:

Vaccine Mandates

by Mateus Bassotto

Sports Communication • 2023

Coronavirus vaccine mandates are a hot topic these days...and a controversial one, too. Employers at many businesses and organizations are requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and employees are responding with mixed emotions. Since everybody’s talking about vaccine mandates, we thought we’d ask Bluefield University employees and students, “do you think employees should be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine?”

“I think that employees should get the vaccine, because if you are a teacher that works for a school, you should be vaccinated so when you get around kids you won´t pass the virus to them or to anyone that has health condition.”

Cortarius Gilmore , Major Undecided

“If you work at a fast food or big restaurant where you have to take orders from people or have to serve the customers their food, you should have to get vaccinated. If you have the virus nobody wants you to breathe on their food to spread the virus. so its safer to get the vaccine if you are working at a restaurant.”

Trent Smith , Sports Management

“Some emplyees don´t need to get the vaccine, because it depends on the job. Some jobs don´t really require the vaccine, like construction.”

Kyle Orris, Criminal Justice

“Yes and no. Yes because the older people that have health conditions need the vaccine to fight it off, and no because it can be a choice if people want to take it or not.”

Rod Howard , Assistant Football Coach

“No, because either way you get the vaccine or not people can still get sick with it or without. Some people can be just as healthy as a horse and still die of natural causes.

Landon Knepp, Sports Communication