For as long as I can remember, I’ve been used to the idea that vaccines simply are part of life. The youthful fear I may have indulged in as a toddler notwithstanding, I’m pretty sure that before I was ten I found that their practical application made sense. Moreover, on more than one occasion throughout my life, my mother related her experience of catching scarlet fever as a very young girl in the 1940s, back when such a thing was commonplace. In fact, her older sister, who was infected at the same time she was, nearly died of the disease.

A so-called “Teacher’s Protest” Monday against the vaccination mandates for public school teachers and staff may not have been much of a “Teacher’s Protest”  — considering its keynote speaker was the founder of a Black Trumper organization who just did two years time on conspiracy charges (Trump pardoned her). She