I definitely agree with you that covid vaccine mandate talk is so much hotter than general vaccine talk for seemingly illogical reasons. Personally, I'm undecid

I definitely agree with you that covid vaccine mandate talk is so much hotter than general vaccine talk for seemingly illogical reasons. Personally, I'm undecided on my own view on requirements in general, mostly because all previous vaccine requirements (that I am aware of) happened prior to the start of my lifetime. I grew up with them as just being "the norm" without really thinking about it. However, there is one difference that I can tell that is pretty major from all other vaccine requirements that I can think of. The talk around a covid vaccine mandate is one that would impact everything about normal societal life. All other vaccine requirements I am aware of are generally tied to the things you mentioned, but once you are an adult that isn't in the military or going to certain countries, you basically never have any vaccine check. Tying the mandate to school would make it most similar to other vaccine requirements, but that would also be applying the requirement to the least vulnerable group.