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Originally Posted by Jester
Something dawned on me, and I debated keeping it to myself, but I may as well.
People who take issue with the current crop of people taking issue with the mandates compare it to mandates for schools having kids get all their shots, right? But all the vaccines that we use in that regard are for viruses (and other illnesses) that don't mutate and are pretty cut and dried, tried and true. Mandating the covid vaccine seems more akin to mandating the flu shot, and I don't see many people trying to force anyone to take that one. I tend to roll the dice with the flu each year mainly because the shot is for only certain strains, the flu also constantly mutates, and the flu is inconvenient though typically not deadly (one could argue covid is more deadly, but there are just as many people who have mild to no symptoms.)
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This is how I feel. And it irks me when people hear that I am not for the covid vaccine automatically think I'm an anti-vaxxer. Like you said, the mandated vaccines for schools are for serious illnesses like small pox, polio, TB, etc which have been tried and trued and have a very long history of working. If I'm not mistaken, one of these viruses have pretty much been eradicated from society for several decades because those vaccines were that successful.