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If vaccines for polo, diphtheria, and other ailments are mandatory for (for example) admittance to public school, I don't understand the resistance to making a Covid-19 vaccination in the same category.

To clarify: the vaccines were approved via an "emergency use" authorization, which means a very large amount of data rather than a huge amount of data. There is a big difference between "emergency use authorization" which is based on large amounts of data and a humanitarian device exemption which is used only for rare diseases (affecting fewer than 2000,000 people).

The only reason why the vaccination is not yet mandatory (as of this writing) for the US military is because of pentagon bureaucracy. I strongly suspect it will be mandatory quite soon.