That a vaccine mandate for children is even being considered is unconscionable and short-sighted, if the health of children is truly the paramount concern here!

-Where is the data proving its long-term safety for children??  Show me. (It doesn't exist).

-Where is the science that supports children needing to get this vaccine?   Children are not high risk for covid!!  The number of children who have died from covid (not "with covid")  is fewer than those who have died from pneumonia, or drowning, or suicides in the same timeframe.

Irrational fear, control, and groupthink --  not facts -- are driving these mandates.   

And to allow NO religious exemptions is to support creating a radically different kind of country - a totalitarian one, where freedom of thought, beliefs, and choice are banned.  America was founded by people in search of religious freedom.  If this is approved, we are no longer in America.  Please do not allow any kind of vaccine mandates!!!!