No, essential Civil Service was forced to get it with criminal penalties attached for noncompliance. You couldn't even resign to avoid it. There were quite a number of us who protested in writing but took it anyway as Title 42 has those provisions under Biosecurity. We signed up for the work, so it's what it is.
I protested under how little either the initial or upcoming Omicron boosters were tested prior to the mandate while under an EUA and not regular approval. I wasn't harmed from it, but they still are not tested to the degree that we expect vaccines to be approved under. The Omicron was emergency approved without human testing data committed.
As for risk stratification, did you ever get a Rabies vaccine without a bite exposure? Probably not (only vets and others who endemic exposures warrant the risk get it) and the vaccine is safe and effective. The reason why is that the Rabies vaccine isn't all that safe, but choosing between likely death and a not super safe vaccine, is there a choice? But for the general populace, the adverse event rate is too high for general population inoculation, the effectiveness is not in question. So, I do not feel all vaccines are universal even if uncontroversial in effectiveness, they need to be evaluated on a case basis.
For this one, institutionalized including prisoners and the military seem reasonable. The elderly are reasonable. Pediatrics is a tossup due to even baseline effectiveness, and beneath two is openly questionable given the mixed experience. We'll learn, but to mandate before good science, we hope we're right.