City Backs Off from Yesterday's Vaccine Mandate

Irene Li, Associate Editor | Jul 8, 2022 1:33 pm | 4 comments | 505 reads

Just a few hours after we reported that Beijing would issue a vaccine mandate stating that proof of vaccination will be required to enter a number of public places beginning on Jul 11, the city appears to retract from the demand after the backlash it received from the public.

On Jul 8, the new rules were rescinded, with officials saying all that's needed to enter public spaces now is just a Covid test done in the past 72 hours and a normal temperature check, according to the report from Beijing Daily published on Thursday night.

The report emphasized that vaccination should be voluntary and should not be enforced without consent. Meanwhile, the city also encouraged people who are above the age of three to get the vaccine.

The city's previous announcement, which said people would be required to show proof of Covid vaccines before they can enter public spaces such as training institutions, libraries, museums, movie theaters, and cultural centers invited heated debate among residents worrying about the impact of the policy on their lives -- particularly those who are unvaccinated due to preexisting health conditions that make them medically exempt from getting a jab.

Some people worried about not having the proper form of proof to state that they are medically exempt. Others are concerned about the standards that determine whether one is qualified to get vaccines or not. “My father has underlying diseases and we are not even sure he is able to get vaccinated after speaking with multiple doctors. Some doctors think it is fine, while others disagree” one Beijing resident said.

We are not sure exactly what drove the government to backtrack from the vaccine mandate. But it seems that unvaccinated people who were worried about not being able to enter certain places can breathe a sigh of relief as the old policy seems to have been rescindsed.

READ: Beijing's New Vaccine Proof Requirements Raise Questions 

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Re: City Backs Off from Yesterday's Vaccine Mandate
Posted Jul 10, 2022 3:54pm by BauLuo
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BauLuo wrote:

Gino wrote:

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(By the way, I am glad you used the expression `invites the question' rather than `begs the question'. It seems so few people know the meaning of the expression `begs the question'.... it is so often used nowadays, and almost never used properly.)

I am never shy uh edgjumakatin people, so to be clear, ` begging the question' means that in one's argument or claims in support a proposition one unconsciously (perhaps, occasionally, consciously, by some nefarious dudes) accepts in some ostensibly supporting claim that the proposition proposed for investigation is true. Now I don't wanna go all Derridaiin on ye (or Kantian, for that matter, whom composed page long sentences. However, precision in speaking and (moreso) in thinking, is a rare and precious thing.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Re: City Backs Off from Yesterday's Vaccine Mandate
Posted Jul 9, 2022 6:51pm by BauLuo
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Gino wrote:

All of this invites the question of whether if enough people bitched and moaned, the shamdemic could be stopped.

unquote.

Bitching and moanin don't get nothin done, it is expected, and built into the plan. Rioting and burning buildings don't get nothin done because when push comes to shove the populace is vastly out gunned by the powers that be. There is, however, something that gets things done.

(By the way, I am glad you used the expression `invites the question' rather than `begs the question'. It seems so few people know the meaning of the expression `begs the question'.... it is so often used nowadays, and almost never used properly.)

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Re: City Backs Off from Yesterday's Vaccine Mandate
Posted Jul 9, 2022 12:18am by BauLuo
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BauLuo wrote:

It's called a trial balloon, testing the waters. Glad to see there was sufficient backlash. I hope it stays that way. About 10 months ago a similar trial balloon was announced at a particular airport ( I forget now which city and airport, it was somewhere in the southwest) that no unvaccinated person could enter the airport. It was likewise retracted within a day.

I don't have underlying health issues that preclude vaccinations, I don't have allergies to anything, but I ain't getting a vaccination.

I don't need one, I don't know enough about them and no one knows enough about them.

The intense coercing, bribing, foisting, worldwide, that everyone be vaccinated, for something that is patently of little likelihood of harm to them, should set alarm bells ringing in the minds of anyone that can still think clearly.

Of course the purpose of a trial balloon is to guage the publice response, and thereafter, manipulate and mold that response until the desired response is acquired.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Re: City Backs Off from Yesterday's Vaccine Mandate
Posted Jul 8, 2022 8:11pm by BauLuo

It's called a trial balloon, testing the waters. Glad to see there was sufficient backlash. I hope it stays that way. About 10 months ago a similar trial balloon was announced at a particular airport ( I forget now which city and airport, it was somewhere in the southwest) that no unvaccinated person could enter the airport. It was likewise retracted within a day.

I don't have underlying health issues that preclude vaccinations, I don't have allergies to anything, but I ain't getting a vaccination.

I don't need one, I don't know enough about them and no one knows enough about them.

The intense coercing, bribing, foisting, worldwide, that everyone be vaccinated, for something that is patently of little likelihood of harm to them, should set alarm bells ringing in the minds of anyone that can still think clearly.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.