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The two situations are different. In your situation, your presence or absence in the lunch room didn't directly affect other children. Unvaccinated children can put every other child in the school at risk. Vaccines sometimes don't take effect, and some children cannot be vaccinated due to other medical conditions. We need a very high percentage to receive vaccines to achieve herd immunity. If too many parents refuse to vaccinate then the only way to maintain herd immunity is to remove the unvaccinated from the herd. That's what this does. It's not about punishing the unvaccinated, it's about protecting everyone else.
Just vaccinate all those kids. It isn't hard to give a bunch of shots to kids. Well it is, but the hard part is legal not logistics.
Not everyone can be vaccinated. That's the point in the rest of us who can, to be vaccinated.
They also don't account for the fact that vaccination isn't a magic block against getting COVID. Vaccination reduces the likelihood of infection and, if you do get infected, the severity. COVID can still break through that and have serious, life-altering consequences. Fuck putting my kids' health in danger so awful parents can continue to abuse their kids with no consequence.
Edit: btw, I'm referring to the original comment in this thread. The person you're replying to wants to vaccinate the kids against the parents' will, which is a good thing if they can be.
The numbers that cannot be vaccinated are tiny, and are one of the logistically issues that need to be handled, but are not very hard compared to the political problem.
Yeah, logistically giving vaccines to the remaining unvaccinated people isn't hard (provided it's safe for them to accept them) given how many people we vaccinate at scale already.
Politically, the antivax movement really should be more fringe that it is and it's scary to manage (at least from my perspective).