After the big measles outbreak at Disneyland in 2014, California tightened school vaccination requirements: Senate Bill 277, passed in 2015, removed personal belief exemptions for mandated vaccinations. Senate Bill 276, passed in 2019, further tightened up what counts as a valid medical exemption.

Above details from this overview: https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/07/24/no-california-d...

I, for one, am glad to live in a state with strong and consistent vaccination requirements for school children.

> I, for one, am glad to live in a state with strong and consistent vaccination requirements for school children.

Do you think kids should be mandated to be vaccinated for a disease they've already had? What if that vaccine does not appear to prevent illness or spread? What if the vaccine does not have full FDA approval?

> Do you think kids should be mandated to be vaccinated for a disease they've already had?

This is not a new approach. California already mandates that schoolchildren get vaccinated for chicken pox. It's not sufficient to have gotten the disease: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2019-...

I'm not going to argue about this so will leave your other questions unanswered. Take care.

Not looking to argue, just wondering if someone could support a vaccine mandate under these circumstances. I understand if you don't want to say, or don't have reasons to support your feelings. It's a fraught topic!

OP quite clearly states that they “support a vaccine mandate under these circumstances” and has rightly decided to not engage in further bullshittery.

Mostly because it has become politically expedient to tighten exemptions. In the past the demographic requesting exemptions was mostly liberal hipsters, so there were generous exemptions, but now that the Democratic party stands for COVID vaccination mandates the exemptions are being tightened.

The post that you are replying to says that these exemptions were tightened years before Covid-19 existed.