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For the first example, it seems that reasonable exemptions should exist, were vaccines ever mandated. If you're immunocompromised or too young, etc., seems sensible to exempt those people.
The problem is that most anti-vaxxers are not those categories. Their religion, their politics, or their ignorance are seen as acceptable reasons to skip vaccination, and none of those are based on an objective state of a person or have a rational basis for rejecting vaccines. Even if we throw in the prospect of someone having an unknown vaccine allergy, that only affects about one in a million people. You have a better chance to be struck by lightning.
And so, nobody should be subjected to Typhoid Mary just because their favorite god, celebrity, or politician promotes anti-vaxx conspiracy theories. Vaccines should absolutely be mandatory (and fully subsidized by the governing bodies). They save lives, and there's 230 years of documented history to prove it.
My point is that anti-vaxxers should be mandated for vaccines because there are some people who cannot be vaccinated for legit reasons.
Ah, yes. I gotcha. (Also, most of what I wrote was just for general discussion, not aimed specifically at you.)