We were few and the anti-vaccines flourished

09/05/2021 19:13

• Clarín.com

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Updated 09/05/2021 19:13

“He was the fittest and healthiest person I know. He was climbing mountains in Wales and camping in the woods four weeks before he died. " Without consolation, Jenny Mccann talks about her twin brother,

, who at age

in early August. “He thought that if he contracted Covid it would be a mild form.

”. He repented, late, on his deathbed. At

got tired of posting comments like “I have 99 problems, but the vaccine is not one of them” on his social networks, boasting of his refusal to receive it, since

, the White House expert and adviser. A month later, what was uploaded to those same networks were the images of his daily battle against Covid.

Mindy Greene tells The New York Times in front of the intensive care unit at Utah Valley Hospital, while she waits to

at the hands of the coronavirus that was infected from her children . “

. I read all kinds of things about the vaccine and it scared me ... I had the feeling that we would be fine, "he wrote on Facebook about a reality that proved to be very different.

Stories like these, based on the same

, are heard daily. Voices such as those that arose days ago in

when

, take the PCR test and resume face-to-face work

are also heard daily, in public and in private,

arguing that the vaccine is "experimental" and the

and they can "damage health", threatening to reach the Supreme Court with their claim.

One of the voices representing them tried to explain that she was not "anti-vaccine", since for example the flu vaccine is applied.

"What happens is that I do not know what the Covid contains," he justified.

It's hard to imagine this person digging into the full flu formula before graciously offering his arm to receive the stick.

"The vaccine is not mandatory"

, is another of the justifications with which those who refuse to be immunized against Covid are stopped.

Of course, as soon as that possibility arises, the argument to oppose is the violation of the freedom to decide: "My body, my decision", is one of the slogans.

But

French President

made it very clear

: "The freedom in which I owe nothing to anyone does not exist", since it is based "on the sense of reciprocal duty. If tomorrow you infect your father, your mother or me, I am a victim of that freedom of yours, while there is the possibility of something to protect you and me.

and will arrive at this hospital. There are all these personnel who will have to attend to them and perhaps give up attending to another person. That is not freedom.

”.

Anti

are not new.

, when thousands of people took to the streets in protest against the obligation to get vaccinated against smallpox, which claimed 400,000 lives a year in Europe. It started when Edward Jenner, a physician, scientifically verified a belief in circulation: inoculating a mild dose of cowpox provided protection against smallpox. The attack came from various angles. One of the arguments was that obtaining material from cows was unhealthy or unchristian, since it was an inferior creature.

Another

was given in 1998 by

, through a study that proved to be trucho. Published in the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet, the work sustained a link between the triple viral vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism. It was later found that

and that Wakefield was also working on his own measles vaccine.

and the UK General Medical Council

from its ranks.

According to the

. It has been proven that

to stop the spread of the coronavirus

. Despite this, the anti-vaccine preaching perseveres in its objective. As Karl Popper said, "true ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the fact of refusing to acquire it."