We get every vaccine except the flu shot. We finally gave it up after our 5 year old got the flu (again) in 2017 (she got the shot in September 2016). Every year that any of us have gotten the flu shot, we have gotten the flu. And I mean EVERY year.
We did not get the shot in 2017, 2018 or 2019 and none of us have gotten the flu.
We used to get the flu mist when it was available and we didn't get the flu those years either.
We will get the coronavirus though because it seems, so far, like they are making it to battle a specific strain.
No.
Watching my youngest (she was 5) vomit repeatedly for almost 6 hours before the emergency room could give her a stronger medication to stop it and then bawl her eyes out because they had to push fluids through the IV so quickly that she could feel it (painfully) moving into her vein means she will never get a flu shot again.
Every doctor we have ever had, has recommended we get the flu shot, but given our medical histories, do not FORCE us to do so.
We are not considered medically compromised when it comes to vaccines, and we wouldn't be covered under your bolded statement so we would be made to watch out children suffer just so they could get the coronavirus vaccine.
The flu shot, as it doesn't cover every strain of the flu that it is possible to get in a given year, should NEVER be mandatory. And you wouldn't say someone shouldn't be able to get the polio vaccine unless they get the flu shot, so what makes the coronavirus vaccine different?