Stop pretending this is about health:
If it were about health, you’d recognize the science that proves natural antibodies from recovering from COVID-19 is superior to vaccine-induced antibodies.
If immunity was the point, antibodies (both vaccine-induced and naturally-induced) would be accepted.
If this were about health, then you would acknowledge (like the CDC and vaccine-manufacturers are acknowledging) that the vaccine doesn’t reduce infection or transmission and you would not mandate a vaccine that is unable to reduce infection or transmission.
If you’re truly concerned about the health of children, then you’d recognize that the vaccine’s only potential benefit is the hope that it will lessen severity and that children are NOT in the age-demographic who are experiencing severe infection that results in hospitalization or death.
*Ages 0-19 - - - - - 0.0027% infection death rate
*Ages 0-19 - - - - - 99.9973% infection survival rate
If this was truly about protecting children, you’d recognize that the statistical risk of a severe and/or life-threatening and/or potentially-permanent adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is greater than the risk of hospitalization and death from a COVID-19 infection.
*Over 400 children have experienced myocarditis post-COVID-19 vaccine.
*Approximately 1 in 200 children ages 16-17 experience “severe” adverse reactions.
*Approximately 1 in 9 children ages 12-15 experience “severe” adverse reactions.
We see through the façade; this mandate is not about promoting health for children.
You have no business mandating a vaccine for any child about whose medical history, allergies, and contraindications you know NOTHING about. This decision should remain in the hands of the parent (who take into consideration the advice of their children’s healthcare providers, who follow and monitor each child’s health on an ongoing basis), NOT in the hands of the VA Health Commissioner, or VA governor, or any other politician or industry. Do not mandate this vaccine and do not remove ANY exemptions.