More About Vaccines - LeVar Aikens
Earlier today we posted the message that Jeff Norman sent out to the incarcerated on 3/24/21 https://www.moprisonreform.org/2021/03/vaccine-letter-from-jeff-norman.html encouraging the incarcerated to get the vaccine. Mr. Norman also stated that visits would be reinstated once 70% of the incarcerated have gotten the vaccine. Here's a message from an incarcerated man regarding the vaccine and this letter from Mr. Norman.
"We are not given ANY medical treatment for Post Acute COVID-19 Symptoms. And we aren't given ANY mental health help for dealing with those symptoms, or any of the trauma this is creating for us and our families.
Also,
the department sent us an email yesterday that said if 70% of the
prisoners at the prison get vaccinated, we will get visits. See below
in quotation marks.
"The
department plans to resume visits with friends and family when
approximately 70% of the resident population of each facility has
been vaccinated against COVID-19, significantly reducing the risk of
future outbreaks.
Its
everyones responsibility.
Including
yours. Getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself, your
peers and your family.
Its
the fastest, easiest way to get back to normal.
The
pandemic wont be over until the virus stops spreading. The more
people get vaccinated, the sooner we all can get back to doing things
that make our lives better."
The
majority of staff are refusing to get the vaccine shot. From the
beginning, it was, has been, and will be, STAFF who brought, and
bring COVID-19 into the prisons and spread it to us, each other, and
the community. So, why is it the Department is not making it a
requirement for STAFF to get vaccinated in order to work here?????
The SAFEST and best way to protect us, you, and everyone, is for
staff to get vaccinated. Staff getting vaccinated is the ONLY way to
significantly reduce the risk of future outbreaks, but the department
is completely against it. That is the definition of, "Deliberate
Indifference." They literally send us an email saying it's
everybody's repsonsibility, but staff. Again, the legal term for
that, is "Deliberate Indifference." And by the way, the
Department still doesn't enforce staff to wear masks, and there is no
such thing as social distancing here--it's too crowded. They just
spent weeks, transferring bus loads of inmates from SECC to here.
Then with the black mold at PCC and the asbestos at FCC, where are
they going to put everyone? Just pile us on top of each other with a
bunch of staff who refuse to get vaccinated or wear masks, and with
no medical or mental health care. That's their plan. But wouldn't it
make more sense for the department to start releasing people who are
within a year of being parole eligible--especially if they are in the
high-risk COVID-19 category? I'm parole eligible on June 15th, 2021.
That is less than 3 months from now, yet there is absolutely no talk
of releasing me on that day. Does that make any sense to you?
For
the record, I don't blame staff for not wanting to get the vaccine
shot. I don't want it either. But with a job where it is the
department's and staff's RESPONSIBILITY to keep us not only safe, but
protected from an infectious disease, it should be mandatory for
staff to be vaccinated in order to work here and interact with human
beings.
The
other thing everyone needs to know is, they have teachers coming in
here for school, they have chaplain coming in for programs, etc. How
is it the department can justify allowing all these other people
coming into the prison, but not our families? There is no vaccination
percentage requirement for all these other people coming in and out
of the prison, who can just as easily spread COVID-19 to us, yet
there is a bs requirement for the most important and healthiest
connection and relationship----the one with our families and loved
ones. And that's more "deliberate indifference" and "prison
officials not protecting us from an infectious disease"---which
is another legal right.
You
don't have to read between the lines. The department is boldly
putting it right in your face, that they Do Not Care about you, us,
or the effects their victimizing has on all of us. They don't care
about more outbreaks in here, which turns into more outbreaks out
there. They are showing it, by doing the exact opposite of what it
takes to keep everyone safe and healthy.
Maybe
keeping COVID-19 going is good for the department's business? Either
way, what they are doing is still a crime and a violation of yours
and our constitutional rights"
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