I think a lot of the recent backlash was based on false claims by politicians and public health officials that COVID-19 vaccine mandates were necessary to protect others. But in reality the scientific evidence indicated that the vaccines had little or no benefit for reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. That discrepancy in messaging eroded public trust and made some people believe that authorities had ulterior motives.
There's no jurisdiction on the planet in which this is true. Certainly not the USA.
> let's not distort the discussion by inventing fake rights that appear nowhere in the US Constitution
The Constitution itself openly and clearly shoots down this idea in the Bill of Rights, in the Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
George Washington himself instituted a vaccine mandate. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolu...
https://www.ncsl.org/health/state-non-medical-exemptions-fro...
"All 50 states and Washington D.C. have laws requiring certain vaccines for students to attend school."
Employers, as a result, tend not to have their own requirements, for the same reasons they don't ask you to demonstrate you can count to ten if you have a high school diploma.
(And don't worry, they've got folks from other countries who might not have gone through our school system covered; https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...)
> Nobody asks me for my immunizations from the 1980s when I was in k-12.
Because you are virtually guaranteed to have had them. They will also not ask you if you're potty trained.