Judging Freedom - Johns Hopkins professor slams elite colleges for 'anti-scientific' COVID policies

Episode Date: January 5, 2022

Judge Napolitano details how a Johns Hopkins University medical professor slammed America's elite universities - including those in the Ivy League - for 'anti-scientific and cruel' COVID policies that ignore how little risk the virus actually poses to college students.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello, my friends, Judge Napolitano here on Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, January 5th, and a doctor that I respect and admire, full disclosure from time to time, he's on Fox News, my employer for 24 years, and I know him from there. But he's a brilliant and gifted physician named Dr. Marty McCary. He's also a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore. Has been harshly critical this morning of universities, private universities that are imposing absurd and draconian restrictions on their students. Now, we have to distinguish public from private. I'll take New Jersey as an example. Princeton University, a private university of which I am an alumnus, can do a lot of things

that Rutgers University, just 10 miles up the road, cannot do because Rutgers is owned by the state of New Jersey. And of course, the Bill of Rights regulates the states and everything they own. The Bill of Rights does not regulate private property. So there are things that Rutgers can do to regulate the behavior of its students that Princeton cannot do. Nevertheless, Princeton and Georgetown and Cornell and a bunch of other universities have required wearing masks outside in a public place when you're walking from your dorm to a classroom. Princeton University would not let you leave the country without the consent of the university and without a quarantine uh when you return princeton university requires absurd quarantining if you've been exposed to somebody all of this is showing that the science is not

as we were told it was if you've had had three vaccines, why do you still get COVID? If wearing a mask keeps you safe, how can you still get the Omicron variant? I'm not a physician. I'm a former judge and a lawyer and a constitutional scholar, but it doesn't take a medical school education and degree to analyze from a common sense point of view that the government is in way over its head and even private entities like Princeton. I'm sorry that I keep criticizing my alma mater. I'm going to hear from somebody there, but they deserve the criticism. The science is so new that there's a lack of understanding. The Israelis are already on their fourth vaccine. Who has ever heard of four vaccines in one year, in one year, to immunize a person from a virus? It's obvious that the vaccines are not working.

You can be totally immunized. You can still get sick. You can be totally immunized, and you can still pass the illness on to other people. It seems to me that this COVID is going to be with us, just like colds and just like the flu, and we should understand that. Back to Dr. McCary, points out that young people between age 15 and 21, their chance of getting COVID and dying is one in a million. They have a greater chance of dying in an automobile accident by the, and in an accident in their home. But yet, these private universities are imposing these draconian regulations on them. Look, my field is the Constitution. Princeton University owns the property on which the campus exists. It's the most beautiful campus in the United States. Nevertheless, they can do what they want on their property,

but they are subject to severe criticism because they are making lives miserable for their students. It costs $60,000 a year, $60,000 a year, $60,000 to go to Princeton University. It's almost like a prison. Judge Napolitano and Judging Freedom. Oh, I almost forgot. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you haven't done so yet. We will stick together and then ring the bell. You know, when you subscribe, there's a little bell that you ring, and then you will hear that bell when one of my pop-ups is coming. It's

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