Judge Matthew Cooper
, Matthew Cooper, a New York judge has said that a father cannot visit with his three-year-old daughter unless he gets the vaccination or takes weekly (and expensive) COVID tests. The father has already had COVID, which means he is filled with natural antibodies that are more powerful than any protection a vaccination can provide. Additionally, a healthy three-year-old child is at almost zero risk of getting a dangerous case of COVID. It’s true that children have died from COVID, which is always a tragedy, but the number stands at a low 605, and almost all the children have had serious comorbidities. With roughly 72,000,000 children under 18 in America, 605 deaths is vanishingly small. And of course, there’s the fact that people with the vaccination still get sick and are still COVID spreaders. Nevertheless, Cooper, abandoning both law and science, and guided only by his blind leftist ideology, inserted himself in the parent-child relationship: “Here, in-person parental access by defendant is not in the child’s best interests, and there are exceptional circumstances that support its suspension,” wrote Justice Matthew Cooper, who is presiding over the pair’s divorce and custody dispute. “The dangers of voluntarily remaining unvaccinated during access with a child while the COVID-19 virus remains a threat to children’s health and safety cannot be understated,” the jurist said in the Oct. 7 decision, which withheld the parties’ names. [snip] “Unfortunately, and to my mind, incomprehensibly, a sizable minority, seizing upon misinformation, conspiracy theories, and muddled notions of ‘individual liberty,’ have refused all entreaties to be vaccinated,” argued the high-profile judge, who presided over divorce and child custody cases involving actor Robert De Niro, actress Uma Thurman and former NBA star Lamar Odom.