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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not many 18 y/o are opposed to the vaccine. Their parents may be, but that’s very different [/quote]
That's great, because no one will ban them from getting vaccinated if they want to.

[b]There's no real reason to require vaccination of a group that is essentially at zero risk from covid, especially since the vaccine doesn't seem to have any effect on transmission. [/b][/quote]

This is patently false.

First, there is more risk of damage from COVID for the unvaccinated as compared to the vaccinated;
Second, there is risk to professors and classmates with health/co-morbidity issues if your kid spreads COVID in the classrooms or at parties.
Third, it does reduce transmission risk, but not to zero.

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1) The risk to healthy people of college age is essentially zero. The vaccine makes no meaningful difference, because the starting risk is so low.
2) The vaccine is available to higher-risk people. For them, getting the vaccine does make a meaningful difference, and they should get it. 
3) The reduction to transmission is, at best, negligible. No one in public health is seriously making this argument anymore.

The vaccines are great for the elderly and high risk people, generally a good idea for medium risk people (such as the middle-aged), and of no real benefit to younger, healthy people. We shouldn't require people to inject themselves without good reason. 
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It’s also unconscionable that the only place these mandates should live on would be in communities of typically healthy 18-22 year olds. They basically exist nowhere else but some college campuses at the moment. Beyond insane[/quote]

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