b'C ounterPointThisismylegalopinionastowhyIWhy Dershowitzthinkyoushouldassumethatnoneof the lawsuits against the UC will succeed.Is WrongTherefore, all UC students and employees are going to have to get vaccinated, get an accommodation/exemption(andyoucanto Apply Jacobsonforget about a medical exemption because MEs like the ones given under California SB 277 will not be accepted, the short of itDecisionbeing, no contraindication (or precaution)no exemption, period), or find someplacein Support ofelse to study or work.I think your and their choices are that clear and that simple. and nonsense flyingVaccine PassportsWith all the crap around about these lawsuits, someone has to tell people who are facing these tough choices whats what, and since no one elseI fromaccessingallBY DANIEL HOROWITZ lesser sacrifices, of-seems to be stepping up to the plate, I guessf a government can box out a citizenty. It would be strange if it could not call Im that guy. vitalgoodsandupon those who already sap the strength services unless he takes an experi- of the State for these mental vaccinenow with seriousten not felt to be such by those concerned, questions about safety and efficacyisin order to prevent our being swamped there anything a government cannot dowith incompetence. It is better for all the toyou?Well,thusfar,thecourtshaveworld, if instead of waiting to execute de-reliedona115-year-oldcourtopinion,generate offspring for crime, or to let them whichhasbeenimplicitlyoverturnedstarvefortheirimbecility,societycan dozens of times, to justify any inhumanepreventthosewhoaremanifestlyunfit and illogical government mandate underfrom continuing their kind. The principle the guise of exercising state police powersthatsustainscompulsoryvaccinationis over public health. Unless we flush thisbroad enough to cover cutting the Fallo-decisionand the even more egregiouspiantubes. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 interpretation of itout of existence, ourU.S. 11 (1905). Three generations of imbe-government will quite literally be able tociles are enough.take any action against our body. Noticehowimmediatelybeforede-Supporters of mandatory shutdowns,claring, Three generations of imbeciles masking, and now vaccines have justifiedare enough, Holmes cites Jacobson. Just the legality of their edicts based on theknow that this is the decision being used 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case, whichto allow government to do anything and Richard Jaffe, Esq. is a healthcare litigator,upheld a fine against an individual whoeverythingtoourbodieswithouteven focusing on cutting-edge medical/legal issues.failed to take the smallpox vaccine, pur- having to provide evidence of safety, ef-HehasaJ.D.fromColumbiaLawSchoolsuant to the ordinance of the departmentficacy, and lack of alternatives. Just know where he was a member of the Columbia LawofhealthinCambridge,Massachusetts.that we need not imagine what could be Review and a Stone Scholar, having also earnedLegal analysts like Alan Dershowitz con- done with such power because the same aB.A.degreewithhonorsfromtheHebrewtinue to cite it as an iron-clad precedent tocourt,whichhasobviouslyoverturned University of Jerusalem where he received thesupport mandatory COVID-19 shots. this decision with numerous subsequent prize for academic excellence in the History andHowever, that opinion is so antitheti- case law establishing the inviolable right Philosophy of Science. He is admitted to prac- cal to modern case law that it gave rise toto bodily autonomy, has already pushed tice in California, Texas, and New York, butthe infamous Buck v. Bell decision in 1927,forced sterilization.works on litigation, and criminal and admin- which greenlit forced sterilization. ThatJacobsonhasbeenoverruled istrativeinvestigationsinvolvingsignificantWehaveseenmorethanoncethatisabundantlyclearfromnumerous healthcare issues throughout the country. Rick,the public welfare may call upon the bestcases,andmostemphaticallydriv-who has graciously helped NHF in the past, cancitizensfortheirlives,wroteJusticeenhomeinCruzanv.Director,Missouri be reached at rickjaffeesquire@gmail.com. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. for the majori- Dept. of Health, (1990) when Chief JusticeH ealtHF reedomN ews /s ummer2021 21'