Last week, the Advisory Committee of the Department of Disease Control and Prevention ( under the dystopian tutelage of JFK, Jr.) said that all vaccinations, including those for measles and polio, should be made optional; that requiring mandatory shots for school entry is a “species of authoritarianism.”
Such a specious declaration, to our perception, has the analogous verisimilitude of averments that the Georgia Ku Klux Klan is hosting a pie sale to raise money for Black History Month or that John Dillinger is a full professor in “Money and Banking Theory” at Wharton. Such hogwash, emanating from the autocratic Trump Administration, reveals the empirical level of dystopia, as also would a declaration that “Freddy” Krueger, from the fictional horror movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” has recently been seen, earnestly absorbed in crocheting a flowered pot holder for his grandmother.
It is an empirical revelation of cognitive dissonance for a member of the Trump Administration to oppose a matter of any description because its requirement is “authoritarian” and ipso facto, objectionable. Traffic laws, criminal statutes, and contract law have their respective mandates, yet exist at the will and for the empirical benefit of organic society. It would appear that the perverse declaration of “authoritarianism” regarding the societally salubrious policy of mandatory vaccination for entrance to public school is a subjective misuse of the word; analogous to the ignorant, ubiquitously used, “socialism,” by the misinformed right-wing, relative to programs of capitalistic benevolence, viz., social security, health insurance assistance, and the ike.
It has been our lifelong credo that only feckless governmental interference with the delineated constitutional rights of American citizens is “authoritarian” and pernicious, not every morally and societally necessary stricture. The MAGA misuse of specifically intended, contextual words is indicative of their ubiquitous misunderstanding, not only of the American lexicon but generally, of the inarguable virtues of living in a Democratic Republic.
On the vitally important subject of vaccination against disease, we cannot restrain our emotionally responsible feeling that parents who do not have their children fully vaccinated against disease are ipso facto guilty of child abuse.
-P.
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