Ninth Circuit Says Vax Mandates Are OK – Even If The Vax Doesn’t Work

Los Angeles’ public school district and other government agencies can force workers to receive Covid shots as a condition of keeping their jobs, even if the “vaccines” don’t actually work to prevent anyone from becoming infected with the virus or transmitting the virus to others, a federal appeals court has ruled.

On July 31, a full panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an earlier ruling from their colleagues, declaring now that the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) didn’t violate the constitutional rights of workers who were fired after they refused to get Covid shots.

In the ruling, the court’s majority refused to consider evidence that the so-called Covid vaccines actually immunized anyone against contracting or spreading the virus that caused Covid-19.

Instead, the majority said it mattered only that the government declared the shots were “effective in preventing and spreading the disease.”

They grounded the ruling in the longstanding U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Jacobson v Massachusetts. That decision, which authorized Massachusetts public health officials to force vaccine skeptics to receive smallpox inoculations in 1905, has been used by governments ever since to enforce vaccine mandates.

“Jacobson holds that the constitutionality of a vaccine mandate, like the Policy here, turns on what reasonable legislative and executive decisionmakers could have rationally concluded about whether a vaccine protects the public’s health and safety, not whether a vaccine actually provides immunity to or prevents transmission of a disease,” the majority wrote.