As far as mandatory vaccines goes, I just felt like it was a dumb move for Biden to say out loud, in public that he would like to make a covid vaccine mandatory. Obviously, it's possible for schools, airlines, employers, etc., to make school attendance, employment or a plane ticket dependent upon proof of vaccination. That doesn't mean, though, that it would be mandatory. Nobody has to fly on a plane, work for any particular employer or send their kids to a public school. Those are all choices people get to make. Maybe it's just semantics, but I was pretty frustrated by Biden's choice of words. Once a vaccine seems relatively safe and effective, my family and I are definitely planning on getting it. We're not anti-vaxxers, by any stretch of the imagination. Our daughter has all of the vaccines recommended by her pediatrician, and when we traveled around the world for 2 years, we got all the shots recommended by the CDC for each of the countries we visited. We have American friends, though, who are big time anti-vaxxers. They homeschool their kids, so they don't have to get them vaccinated. I think it's dumb, but that's their choice. I don't think they should be forced to do anything. I think our government needs to do a better job of educating the public and persuading them to voluntarily get vaccinated. For months on social media, I've been trying to reassure "vaccine skeptics," as some of our anti-vaxx friends like to call themselves, that "there's not a chance in hell that any US government will try to make a covid vaccine mandatory. It's not going to happen. Stop worrying!" And then that dumb ass Biden gets up on the stage and says to the whole world that he would like to make a covid vaccine mandatory. smdh. :)