The debate over whether it should be mandatory to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to essential workers, many on the frontline of the fight against the virus, and our security forces has descended into a zero-sum rhetorical game, where neither truth, reason nor public health wins.More often than not, we feel compelled to hand out en masse to the verbal combatants, a seminal textbook now 90 years old which could very well be an important tool to navigate our way out of this and many other debacles facing the nation.