If you choose to avoid vaccination you are relying on other circumstances to keep yourself healthy. Firstly, you should hope that 80% or more of the population accepts vaccination which considerably reduces the chance of you, the anti-vaxxer, coming into contact with someone capable of spreading the virus. The higher percentage of the population that is vaccinated, the less chance the virus can spread and replicate. By asserting your ‘rights’ not to be vaccinated you are assuming that most of us will, and that you can rely on others to keep you safe. Selfishly, your health and your rights are dependent on, and trusting, the rest of us complying with what is important for Public Health. It’s a good thing for us all, that we can trust the majority of the driving population to keep to the left on the roads (in Australia) and stop at red lights. A civil population depends on trust.
One of the many excuses I have heard from those who are refusing vaccination is that they believe they have a ‘good immune system’ that will respond effectively to an infection with Covid-19. This attitude is common among the ‘wellness’ community. By taking a variety of vitamins, minerals and plant extracts, they claim a superior immunity to infection, and are in no need of vaccination. Sorry, but the immune system, no matter how ‘strong’, cannot prevent illness caused by bacteria and viruses if it has not previously come into contact with these pathogens. The immune system has to be primed to protect us, either through contracting the disease or by injecting the appropriate vaccine. In the case of Covid-19, you may be lucky to survive the infection and then become immune, but in too many cases, the disease causes serious illness, perhaps death, before the immune response kicks in. Asking for the vaccine when on your deathbed is too late.
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