BETHANY MANDEL: Big Bird shouldn’t flap into my family’s COVID vaccination decisions.

Just as “Sesame Street” isn’t content with allowing parents the freedom to guide their children’s own moral compass, so too are they uncomfortable with the idea of parents making individual risk assessments for their children’s health and safety. There is a moral absolutism necessary to be part of the left, which is where “Sesame Street’s” writers appear to fall. The messaging on COVID-19 vaccination has become yet another absolutist position.

Big Bird’s tweet doesn’t exist just on Twitter. It’s part of a larger campaign from the series to “educate” parents on the vaccine.

It’s part of a pressure campaign being waged on children to then push their parents into vaccinating them. Parents from around the country have reached out to me privately and publicly about how their kids’ teachers and schools are trying to influence this family medical decision.

The institutional left, including Politico, Comcast, and Nation magazine, has been saying for years that “your kids are not your own,” and then wonders why they just got their clocks cleaned in Virginia. And wondering why it could likely happen again next year: Progressives: ‘Parental Rights’ is a Dog Whistle, CRT Doesn’t Exist in Schools, and Stop Saying ‘Woke.’

Related: We must also face the grave threat of the members of Biden’s public relations corps merging together, to form the Pangaea of vaccine advocates: