AFTER reading that the CHCC Board says “NO to the mandated vaccination of youth” I was compelled to write this as it is truly disturbing to think these professionals will put what is clearly “politics OVER health & safety” of our children. Given the approval of Federal Agencies that it is “OK and safe for youth in a certain age group to get vaccinated” it sent chills through me to hear such an AWFUL decision. I hate to say it and I pray it NEVER happens but “if ONE youth dies from COVID that could have been prevented it is ON the CHCC Board” for their awful decision. As parents we are in a RUSH to make sure our children are vaccinated and mothers are even given a check-list of vaccinations they never question that their child will need to “PROTECT their child from diseases and health challenges.” But now we have to BEG people to save their lives all because they listen to “Social Media quackery & politics”. I keep telling readers Social-Media is two-edge sword and you have to careful of getting cut.
The entire world is now facing the most dangerous virus to mankind in the history of the world and this Board is saying NO to the need for them to be vaccinated based on NOTHING but speculation. The science behind the vaccine is based on real data driven by “test groups” to make sure it is safe but the Board wants to ignore the medical science that says it’s safe. The idea that some people don’t want to get vaccinated and it’s their RIGHT is just down right FOOLISHNESS. If you make sure your child gets all their vaccination shots as a baby WHAT in the world is wrong with them getting vaccinated for this NEW Virus that is KILLING Hundreds of MILLIONS all over the world? There is NO sound reasoning why these students shouldn’t be required to be vaccinated other than the “POLITICS of Rights” which is the TRUE travesty throughout the world.
I can remember asking all my students over the years in U. S. Government Classes “what is the most Dangerous and WORSE RIGHT we have” and none of the thousands of students I have asked that question NEVER came up with the right answer. The most dangerous and worse right is “the RIGHT to be a FAILURE and even a danger to society with guns” but in this case with the CHCC Board’s decision it is the “spread of COVID” that will KILL children and adults. The same is true with “gun ownership” as now we are seeing how youth are even using guns to kill their fellow students in what is clearly “terroristic acts.” I beg to ask “WHAT in the world is MORE important than SAVING LIVES” and I’m sure most will agree there is NOTHING more important than saving lives.
I can only hope and PRAY that parents are smarter than the CHCC Board and get their child vaccinated before sending them to school as the ONLY thing known to mankind to fight this deadly COVID is vaccination. I’m in Germany now and their new Chancellor Olaf Scholz scheduled to take office is getting ready to ask their Legislators to create Law mandating that “every citizen be vaccinated or be removed from all public activities”. He knows about the “RIGHTS & Democracy Claims” being invoked but he says the health of the entire nation is far more important than any INDIVIDUAL Right and I totally agree with Chancellor Scholz and the CNMI should follow his example. This is why I continue to invoke “One People One Direction” because it is the BIGGEST challenge to mankind with issues we face, especially with this virus that infects millions every day throughout the world.
We eat all kinds of foods from all over the world and NEVER even question it being safe but now people want to question a “PROVEN Vaccine,” which is really FOOLISHNESS! The entire WORLD is in a battle that has never been experienced before in the recorded history of mankind and WE, as the People of the world can’t even work together as “One People” because of the foolishness of political rights. The COVID vaccinations have YET to kill anyone after billions have been vaccinated and we still have the FOOLISH hold-outs who don’t have “a leg-to-stand-on” figuratively when it comes to being vaccinated. PLEASE get your child vaccinated because I can tell you, there is “NO Second Chance if your child gets COVID”. Be smart and don’t follow the foolishness of not getting yourself and your child vaccinated because you will surely be forever mad and never forgive yourself when you are looking at your child in a casket. One people One Direction for VACCINATING everyone to end this pandemic!
The writer is an Economist, Political Scientist, retired teacher, former CNMI Board of Education Member, James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays & Humanities Scholar who resides in Kagman III.
AMBROSE M. BENNETT
Activist
