US tells federal agencies to remove records of employees' COVID vaccination status
Source: Reuters
August 8, 2025 2:03 PM EDT Updated 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Office of Personnel Management issued new guidance on Friday directing all federal agencies to eliminate any record of an employee's COVID-19 vaccination status, prior noncompliance with vaccine mandates, or requests for exemptions from such mandates.
"Things got out of hand during the pandemic, and federal workers were fired, punished, or sidelined for simply making a personal medical decision," OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a statement. "That should never have happened."
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-tells-federal-agencies-remove-records-employees-covid-vaccination-status-2025-08-08/
Short article at post time.
Sounds like a violation of the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, but then they are blatantly violating laws each and every day.
Newsflash - there is a "Records Management" process that designates how to handle government records and preservation and/or destruction.
Blues Heron
(7,956 posts)Take one for the team. Individualist bullshit during such times should be treated as a serious offense. The pukes always side with the spreader mentality. Sadly their own people died at a higher rate than the considerate people.
Puppyjive
(876 posts)fuck them. Everyone in my office got the covid shot way before they were mandated. We all believed in the science and the science kept us and our families alive.
Lovie777
(20,924 posts)effed up thereby over 600 thousand died, and here we go again (#47) and that effed up Kennedy.
BOSSHOG
(43,983 posts)(Perish the thought) why would I destroy evidence that may be useful to the dumbasses in the administration? Im old and naive, if you choose to educate me type real slow.
mdbl
(7,682 posts)even more people will die than last time.
Smackdown2019
(1,317 posts)If they are unhealthy..... they wont vote next time.... plain and simple.... the orange drink only lasted upto his last election.... now they drink what they are told. We Democrats run away and wait it out. Then clean up another mess....
Blues Heron
(7,956 posts)i.e hoist by their own petard.
progree
(12,487 posts)decision is greatly increasing one's risk of infecting others. (If it was just about you, and you keel over, that's a great victory for Darwin and the gene pool).
And, RRRADD, if your illness and the illnesses of the people you infect are contributing to the overloading of ER's, hospitals, and medical personnel, then that is impacting many others negatively.
Talitha
(7,618 posts)Makes me so mad I could spit nails.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(130,393 posts)bif
(26,401 posts)Seriously.