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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It doesn’t matter if they could, they WON’T.  I would not be surprised if it isn’t mandatory next school year either. [/quote]

Why are you saying they WON'T (in caps)?

At what point do we all look around at the disaster that is continuing to happen and decide 'enough is enough'?  You think Bowser will just say "meh more of my populace dying is fine, keeping the schools closed again is fine, education gaps by race increasing is fine"?  When is it enough?[/quote]

DP: I have generally lost my faith in the ability of government to do good work.[/quote]

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