A COVID-19 medical exemption is a little like having an emotional support python: In the vast majority of cases, it’s unjustifiable, irresponsible, and needlessly dangerous.
But that hasn’t stopped perhaps millions of Americans from smugly walking around with a metaphorical snake wrapped around their necks. Medical exemptions have increasingly become the à la mode way for anti-vaxxers to deflect judgment and excuse themselves from mandatory vaccination requirements — even when doctors say there is almost never a well-founded reason to not get the safe and effective shot. What’s worse, like those who abuse the emotional support animal system, the people who take a “rules don’t apply to me” approach to the COVID-19 vaccine are actively endangering the members of the community they purport to be a part of.
