With deadline looming, DC Police fight Covid-19 vaccine mandates

The following is an excerpt of my article in The Epoch Times.

While Washington, D.C. ticks down on forced Covid-19 vaccination for government employees, the police union has filed a lawsuit to stop the mandates. It is also asking a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to freeze the march toward a Feb. 15 deadline.

According to documents, at least 528 members of the D.C. Police Union, or more than one in six, are unvaccinated; and a larger number are passing up boosters. Also revealed in the union’s legal filing: at least one-quarter of the union force has already tested positive for COVID-19 after getting the Covid-19 vaccine.

The COVID-19 vaccine has proven to be ineffective at reducing the transmission rate of coronavirus to members of the public or co-workers in the District government, which was the stated basis behind the vaccine mandate.
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According to figures provided by the union, 696 vaccinated D.C. Police Union members, or 25 percent of the union force, have tested positive for Covid-19 after being vaccinated.

The COVID-19 vaccine is irreversible [and while it] may be safe for some, the CDC explicitly recognizes that certain adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination may occur” including “(1) anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction); (2) thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (‘causes blood clots in large blood vessels’); (3) Guillain-Barre Syndrome (nerve damage that can cause ‘muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis’ and for which some people ‘have permanent nerve damage’; (4) myocarditis and pericarditis (inflammation of the heart tissue); and (5) death
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