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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hundreds of public universities are requiring students and staff to be vaccinated. A federal judge ruled that Indiana U's requirement should stand, when it was challenged in court.

However this precedent doesn't automatically mean that public K-12 schools can require the vaccine, since the safety bar for vaccines is higher for children, and some parents will likely fight a lot harder for their minor kids than for their college kids.

If this were a purely medical/public health decision, vaccines would be required in group settings of all sorts (schools, prisons, nursing homes, group homes, etc). But this will be just as much a political decision as a scientific one - judges are not scientists, and if it goes to the Supreme Court as a question on civil liberties, I will remind you that this Court is very much on the side of giving individuals enough rope to hang themselves.
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Ok, then what about staff/teachers?[/quote]

It doesn’t matter what the courts say. You have to have a local government willing to say it is mandatory.  DC gov is not that entity at this point [/quote]

Are you saying that DC gov is NOT making it mandatory at present?  Yes we know that.  But COULD they?  [/quote]

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