Now 2 years into this pandemic, it feels like more than ever we're a country, world & people divided.
Vaccines have kept diseases and virulent infections at bay for decades. I'm no medical expert, but I'd pretty much guarantee that every self-proclaimed 'anti-vaxxer' in North America who is alive today has had a vaccine at some point in their lifetime. A vaccine that protected them from falling ill with Chickenpox, Diphtheria, Hep A & B and Measles (among others). They've never known what it's like to be sick with those ailments because their body (and the body's of everyone else around them) had been equipped to deal with it. That's herd immunity. That's protection.
An excerpt from today's Globe & Mail:
"As for the convoy of 'Freedom Riders (trucker blockades) they have it all backward: They want all restrictions lifted, while rejecting the one thing that dramatically lowers the risk of lifting restrictions. They want the pandemic over, while refusing to do the thing that most contributes to ending it."
Here was my exhausted, down to brass-tacks rundown on it (as I texted to a friend who still has vax hang-ups):
Everyone is going to die one day. EVERY-BODY. The naive general consensus (particularly among unvaxxed) is that the vax somehow nullifies human immortality. I could see the apprehension to the jab if it did that... But we all die - guaranteed. Now, do you want to likely stave off that inevitability by getting a vaccine that has killed nobody, or chance a bad case of a virus that has offed almost 6 million peeps worldwide and counting? Should be a no brainer. Die soon? or Die later? But be absolutely assured; the death will happen.
Look at this frightened, ignorant imagery.
Untrue.