Change My Mind

What is your stance on vaccine mandates?

They already exist. In order to enroll your child in a public school, you have to provide evidence of vaccination from a whole raft of diseases. They date back to George Washington in America.

That's all fact, and you asked about my opinion. Here it is: Covid isn't that much different from other diseases like measles, so we should take a similar public health approach to controlling it (see above).

But that requirement is transactional.
If you want the use of public schools, then your children must be vaccinated. Plenty of parents homeschool for just that reason.
(On a tangentially related note, i think requiring the use of contraception that can't just be "forgotten", like the IUD or the shot, in order to obtain food stamps or other welfare programs would be appropriate. After all, they've already demonstrated they can't support the child(ren) they already have)
There are serious discussions of requiring businesses, whether they want to or not, to vaccine check thier customers. Requiring a vaccine to buy groceries? That is ridiculous.