Chicago's Vaccine Awareness Day is the idolatry of our time
Say you've created a new religious holiday without saying...
Friday, Nov. 12 is a religious holiday in Chicago Public Schools.
With all of eight days notice, the district canceled class for its 341,000 students for “vaccine awareness day,” a chance for parents to get their 5-11 year-olds vaccinated for COVID-19, now that they can be. How special.
A last-minute “day off” for children is a burden on parents. Snow days can’t be helped. This can.
There is no shortage of vaccine availability. In Chicago or anywhere. No need for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Just walk into any pharmacy.
This is a school district, remember, where the teachers union tried to take the year off, and work via Zoom.
That didn’t pass the smell test. So here we are. Back to school.
Except on Nov. 12. For Vaccine Awareness Day.
Next year, they’ll take off Nov. 12 for “booster shot awareness day.”
By 2023 it’ll be a full-blown tradition. Vaccine Awareness Remembrance Day. Except, who needs to “remember” a pandemic government officials never stop talking about?
This is not garden-variety #Governmenting, like taking off Columbus Day, or punching out at the stroke of 5 p.m.
This is more severe.
This is idolatry, in plain sight. Nov. 12 is a religious holiday created by people who don’t identify with that word, religion, but feel the need to believe and belong. Consider the lost learning on the 12th as a burnt offering.
This is a religious observance on our time, on our dime.
Last year, our progressive friends filled the God-sized hole in their hearts with Fauci pillows and St. Stacey Abrams prayer candles.
This year, they’re taking days off the school calendar.
How long until an adult voice comes along and says No?
Truth.