If there is to be a vaccine mandate, it needs to come through the general assembly, be put on the state health form, and only apply to ages for which the FDA has granted full approval of any vaccine.

Also vaccine mandates should be directly tied to normalization of schools, with the end of all non-pharmaceutical interventions for the appropriate ages. Masks, distancing, and other measures should be dropped upon implementation of a vaccine mandate, if not well before. COVID-19 is endemic, and given that we have tools to blunt it, we need to live with it.