"Operation Warp Speed"

Famed constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz isn't backing down even though he caught major blow-back for opening his rather sizable pie hole.

 In an interview last Sunday, Dershowitz said that the government has a constitutional right to forcibly vaccinate people.

"Let me put it very clearly," he said. "You have no constitutional right to endanger the public and spread the disease, even if you disagree. You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business.

"And," he continued, "if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm."

The Harvard Law School emeritus was referring to the state police power doctrine derived in part from the 10th Amendment, where the Supreme Court has recognized each state's "police power". This gives the state authority to enact health laws, including vaccination and quarantine, to protect public health against a contagious disease.

Meanwhile, the new federal plan to produce a coronavirus vaccine, dubbed "Operation Warp Speed" by President Trump (because it "means big and it means fast") is chugging full steam ahead.

The goal? To accelerate the development of a proven COVID-19 vaccine, then manufacture and distribute it throughout America ASAP. "Hopefully by the end of the year," said Trump. Oh, and guess who's going to be distributing the vaccine--the military.

So what's the Problem? In a Yahoo! News / You Gov poll this month, nearly 1 in 5 Americans said they would not take a coronavirus vaccine.

Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, fears it's the name of the initiative--Operation Warp Speed--that is scaring people off.

"They think, oh my God, they're jumping over all these steps and they're going to put us at risk," Fauci said.

We think he nailed it. Rushing to complete a process in a matter of months that typically takes years seems reckless to us, and we are not by any means anti-vaxxers.

A wise woman once said: "Although I have been vaccinated myself and vaccinated my kids for the typical childhood diseases and have no issue with that, the thought of a vaccine being rushed through trial and forced on us makes me very nervous." -- a newly skeptical woman

"The wise are cautious and avoid danger; fools plunge ahead with reckless confidence."  (PROVERBS 14:16)

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News: 

• USA Today: A fight to reopen churches amid pandemic; Trump says churches/synagogues/mosques "essential"
• Fox News: DOJ urges Nevada to reconsider ban on church gatherings of 10 or more people; 'unequal treatment' cited
• The Hill: Pentagon plans on coronavirus being active well into 2021