College official: No to FREEDOM
Vice President of the Board of Trustees said living was more important than freedom.
November 7, 2021
By: Brian Maquena
CERRITOS COLLEGE, CALIF. — As a local community college district moved towards vaccine mandates, an elected official said something against freedom.
“Even though we need our freedom, maybe life is more important,” said Shin Liu, vice president of the Cerritos Community College District Board of Trustees, at the Sept. 15 meeting.
This contrasts greatly with a famed quote by one of America’s founding fathers.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” said Patrick Henry in his famous speech in 1775 in front of colonialists debating the idea of secession from the then-British Empire.
Liu made the statement during the board of trustees’ discussion over the then-proposed Covid-19 vaccine mandate for Cerritos College. The board has since approved the vaccine mandate, starting January 2022.
The college district is funded via property taxes from homeowners living in Lakewood, Cerritos, Bellflower, Downey, Norwalk, La Mirada, Santa Fe Springs and other nearby cities.
The board of trustees had first decided during a special session on Aug. 14 to give college President Jose Fierro authority to craft a vaccinate-or-test mandate that would force students, faculty and staff to choose between getting vaccinated or undergoing weekly Covid-19 tests.
However, after prodding by Trustee Sandra Salazar, the board moved to allow Fierro to include vaccine mandates for spring 2022, something the board ultimately approved as it rushed through its Covid-19 mandates.
In some cases, students would need to endure Covid-19 tests twice a week since a Covid-19 test is only good for three days, per board policy. For now, the board is providing free Covid-19 tests, but already Fierro is complaining that few students, faculty and staff are utilizing such free testing.
Such a lack of utilization may be of Fierro’s and the board’s own making.
Students have reported their friends dropping out of Cerritos College due to their legitimate concerns about getting injured from the notorious Covid-19 and not wanting to deal with the hassle of getting a weekly test.
Faculty are reportedly resisting attempts by Cerritos College administrators to turn them into Covid Police.
Adding to the madness, Cerritos College has initiated faux safety measures that include flimsy plastic screens with wide gaps between them, pretending that such plastic screens protect professors from possibly-infected students sitting in front of them. (Never mind that professors routinely walk outside that “zone of protection” during lectures, as well as when meeting with students face-to-face before or after class.)
Many Cerritos College’s faculty and staff have come out against the vaccine mandates in public comments at trustee meetings and in private votes held by unions representing workers at the college. And, data used by the CDC, FDA and Department of Health and Human Services shows that they have good reason to oppose vax mandates.
VAERS data, which is used by the CDC as an early-warning system, shows 16,310 deaths associated with the Covid-19 vaccine through Oct. 1, 2021. This is more than all other vaccines COMBINED since 1990.
The VAERS data also shows778,685 bad reactions associated with the Covid-19 vaccines, including 75,605 hospitalizations, 17,618 life-threatening injuries, and 23,712 permanent disabilities.
Trustees embrace vax AND mask mandates forever?
Only Trustee Zurich Lewis has fully opposed dividing people two classes of vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Lewis correctly pointed out on Aug. 4 that the vaccinated can spread the Covid-19 virus, showing that the vax-or-test mandate was asinine. Another trustee who supported the vax-or-test mandate admitted that the vaccine was ineffective.
“The vaccine in and of itself does not—and I will repeat this—does not prevent you from getting Covid again,” said Trustee Carmen Avalos at the Sept. 15 meeting. “My brother currently has Covid. He’s fully vaccinated.”
Avalos, then, pointed to her children attending school, saying how even with the deadly Covid-19 vaccine that she is still in favor of her kids wearing masks
“Am I fearful as a parent? Absolutely. Do I tell them to continue to wear a mask even though they are fully vaccinated? Yes, because it is the right thing to do.”
Avalos voted in favor of the vax-or-test mandate for the fall 2021 semester, and the vaccine mandate for the spring 2022 semester.
If vax doesn’t work, aren’t these mandates asinine?
This raises the question, Will this mask mandate ever end? Going by Avalos’ logic, the answer is no.
However, when Anthony Fauci himself admitted on video that the face masks do NOT work at preventing one from catching the virus and when other doctors concur that such face masks do NOT work and when common sense tells us that UNSEALED face masks CANNOT work, this all raises the question – WHY MANDATE SUCH FACE MASKS?
And if those with the vaccine can get the virus and, therefore, carry and spread the virus, why—as Trustee Lewis succinctly pointed out on Aug. 4—risk dividing the study body, faculty and staff by instituting two categories of vaccinated and unvaccinated?
The Lakewood Populist will be investigating this issue further in the near future.
NOTE: Article was updated with italicized information at 10:46 p.m.