I urge you to oppose vaccine mandates for school employees and students. There is abundant information indicating that the risks greatly outweigh the benefits of such a mandate. The mandate represents a serious breach of the civil rights of the people subject to the mandates.

• Data from the VAERS system and the WHO adverse events reporting system indicate the COVID vaccines have caused a large number of injures and deaths.  Many of the injuries reported such as myocarditis, blood clots, Guillain-Barre, heart attack, stroke and anaphylaxis, lead to life long suffering and serious disability along with massive financial costs due to lost income and medical expenditures.
• The pharmaceutical companies are immune from liability for any harms caused by the vaccine.
• The vaccines are experimental, and emergency use only.
• The mortality rate for children from COVID, based on CDC data on COVID deaths and childstats.gov population statistics for the first 9 months of 2021 was 0.001%.  Many people think even these low numbers are inflated by flawed COVID tests. This low level of mortality does not justify such drastic measures.
• The vaccines do not prevent infection with COVID. 
• The Pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the vaccines, such as Pfizer, have been found by courts to have committed fraud on many occasions.  See for example: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma.  We cannot trust the integrity of their processes and their products.
• Recent testimony by insiders has indicated that the pharmaceutical companies have mislead and even lied to the public about the use of fetal cells in the testing process and in the vaccines. This is particularly troubling when religious exemptions are not allowed.