[sgarland]

I see nothing wrong with mandating vaccines if you want to exist in society. You want to use public services? Be a responsible part of the public. Vaccines were once heralded as miracles of science, because they are. It wasn’t until the U.S. began deemphasizing education and encouraging anti-intellectualism that we lost our collective minds.

[_heimdall]

That only makes sense IMO if paying for said public services is optional. If one has to pay taxes to fund public services it seems unreasonable to say they also must get vaccinated or they can't use the very things they are paying for.

[sgarland]

That’s a fair rebuttal. A counter - though not entirely so, depending on the logic behind your statement - is that public schools (in the U.S., anyway) are paid for by taxes, even if you have no children who are benefiting from it.

[_heimdall]

Yeah its generally paid for specifically with property taxes if I'm not mistaken (that's how my local schools are funded). I take issue with that setup partly because I have little say in how schools are run, though I could run for the school board so at that point my inaction is kind of accepting the status quo.

[sgarland]

Yes, at some point it boils down to “how much do you actually care?” I was in the same position when I lived in Texas; the local school board was insane, but I didn’t care enough (because my kids were in a Montessori school) to do anything about it.