We have a Constitution in this country that supports bodily autonomy. Do you REALLY want to go down the road of FORCING CHILDREN TO BE VACCINATED with an experimental gene therapy (ZERO long-term studies)?! Are you really that dense??! Do you not realize that, someday, there may be a vaccine you don't want for your own children? Well, too late. You forced other people's children to be vaccinated, and now, it's your children's turn to be forced.

We also have the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, thanks to Thomas Jefferson. ANY discussion about removing religious exemptions in the Commonwealth MUST be met with the full force of the law. Anyone even suggesting such a thing should be shamed.

If you refuse to read the science around the current pandemic (i.e., vaccines CREATING variants, vaccinated still getting infected and transmitting, etc.), or even if you just trust your own vaccine's effectiveness, then why does it matter what others choose? Either the vaccine works, or it doesn't. If it works, you and your children are protected. If it doesn't, then why force it on anyone?

If through some legal gymnastics Virginia mandates this vaccine for children, then Virginia MUST provide alternative educational opportunities for the children opting out. Separate schools, for example. Use one school for the vaccinated; use another for the unvaccinated. Problem solved.

If you want this pandemic to end, STOP vaccinating. Read the science.