(Editor’s note: “Don’t worry little gingerbread man, I won’t eat you.”  – The fox)

“We have a concern that we will be forced to be quarantined if we refuse the vaccine,’’ said Laura Jackson, president of the Liberty Preservation Association of Massachusetts, which mustered 30 to 40 members for the lobbying drive. “What I’d like to see done with this law is have it burned.’’

Those concerns, public health authorities insist, are entirely unfounded. But the association’s multimedia campaign – aired over talk radio and its website – compelled state Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach to send an italicized, bold-faced missive to legislators, stressing that “mandatory vaccination is not and has never been part of the plan or discussion in Massachusetts’ pandemic response.’’