Dear Editor,
The health of the nation is the highest law. This is the reason why Governments have ensured that helpless babes who are so entitled to a healthy life are inoculated without sound or fury and the process continues that on these little children entering nursery school must produce their record of inoculation against certain known diseases. Equally, in a global pandemic of this kind, the Covid-19 virus, it is the bounden duty of the State to ensure and guarantee the health of the citizens through lawful medical means. In this case, the vaccination that has been approved by Governments globally.
Constitutional human rights are guaranteed in ordinary prevailing circumstances in a State. However, when a nation is threatened by war, plague or pandemic certain fundamental rights, especially the right to safety, good health and peaceful living must supersede or suspend those guaranteed fundamental rights for the safety of the entire nation.
In the prevailing circumstances of this pandemic it is mandatory that the Government ensure that the nation remains safe, secure and healthy, thereby vaccinating the entire nation in concord with law which ought to be made. If someone believes there is no Covid-19 and becomes so infected, do the State have the right to exclude him or her from a medical institution? It is sad that those who persuade its constituency from taking this vaccine whilst they themselves do not want to die of Corona Virus 19 inoculated themselves while certain leaders must prevail upon us to refuse and obey. It is said the most abundant reality in our lives is ignorance.
Sincerely,
J. T. Kissoon
