Point & counterpoint | Mandating vaccine: James Rosen - Scare tactics pose a larger risk James Rosen FacebookTwitterEmail Our fear for our children’s safety is visceral, and it is universal. Nothing unites people across all cultural, economic, social and geographic lines like the love for their children and their desire to protect them against every danger real or imagined. So recent polls showing that one in four American parents don’t plan to get their children vaccinated against the coronavirus, whether with the newly approved shots for those at least 12 years of age or with the ones expected in September for little ones as young as 5, is not surprising.