the fda moved the authorization status from eua to full approval other parents replied they supported a requirement predictably invoking science public health and communal values but the vehemence of their opponents in highly vaccinated cambridge took me by surprise there were recriminations about interference with personal choice and references to nazi germany one participant accused another of bullying and threaten to consult an attorney on monday the fda did grant full approval to the by the pfizer vaccine for people NUMBER_TOKEN and older they say in july the department of veterans affairs became the first federal agency to require some of its employees to get the vaccine or face termination biden recently ordered all federal workers to attest that they are vaccinated or else where masks get tested weekly within hours of the fda's full approval the defense department announced that it would mandate all NUMBER_TOKEN million active duty military members to be vaccinated on the same day public university systems in new york minnesota and louisiana rolled out similar requirements strong resistance to government-mandated vaccination isn't new in NUMBER_TOKEN britain imposed the first mandatory vaccinations requiring parents to inoculate infant children against smallpox or face heavy fines violent riots broke out fueling a national anti-vaccination movement that supported political candidates solely based on their stance on vaccination in the late NUMBER_TOKENs some penalties were eliminated and conscious conscientious objectors were allowed exemptions but by the mid-NUMBER_TOKENth century too many people nearly half the population in some areas were claiming exemptions and the vaccination mandate was repealed altogether britain then dealt with outbreaks by other means such as compulsory examination in the us there were few riots but there were lawsuits you look at this and you can see they've had these things in the past people didn't stand for them in the past but i'll tell you i'll tell y'all who won out in the end the vaccine mandates one out in the end parents get their kids vaccinated in the end every bit of resistance was stamped out by generational changes is that a prediction for what may come in the future perhaps now they say in jacobson v massachusetts the court reciting the principle that individual liberty is not absolute to the face of the common good and that real liberty for all depends on restraining individual exercises of liberty that harm others the court as justice john marshall harlan wrote was therefore unwilling to hold it to to be an element in the liberty secured by the constitution of the us that one person or a minority of persons residing in any community and enjoying the benefits of its local government should have the power thus to dominate the majority that acts through the state's attorney states authority to protect health and safety the court therefore held that a state had legal authority to require vaccinations NUMBER_TOKEN years later it also held that neither due process nor equal protection prohibited a san antonio ordinance making vaccination a condition of children's attendance in schools schools have vaccine mandates but kids are vaccinated at at birth basically throughout childhood so when you apply your children to go to school and they say you know they want i don't know if your kids vaccinate people just like yeah of course it was when he was a kid i remember i went for my my vaccines when i was little so what's going
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