I’m a holistic health practitioner, a lover of nature, and an advocate of doing things naturally. Like some of my colleagues, I recognize the place for western medicine, such as antibiotics. Most will agree that antibiotics have their place. Sometimes an infection is just too far along, too severe, and/or the patient too weak to deal with it naturally. Antibiotics, and pharma generally, save lives and limbs and health every day, all over the world, and in every city.
Same for vaccines. They are for viral infections what antibiotics are for bacterial infections. It seems less freaky to take an antibiotic than to get a vaccine, doesn’t it?
Here’s more: we stand a statistically higher chance of dying or being seriously injured in an automobile or a bathtub . . . but those against vaccines claiming risk don’t seem to avoid cars or bathtubs.
Vaccine resisters don’t seem to think through their resistance, don’t get to the bottom of why they resist them. Their reaction, like with many conspiracy theories, seems to be emotionally-based, which is why they don’t research their biases (basic fact-checking) and don’t play devil’s advocate to their beliefs. And why they won’t change their mind when presented with facts, often using conspiracy theories to defend conspiracy theories.
There’s a place for antibiotics just like there’s a place for vaccines—when other stuff won’t work as well, or at all. It’s basically a miracle of modern medicine. Most are not equipped with the right information to navigate the decision because they don’t want to be. When the logic is weighed, it’s a no-brainer to choose the vaccine over the potential risks of contracting Covid. It seems to be the “freaky” and irrationally scary intimations of vaccines that cause most people to resist them. There are some bona fide justifications but these have to be weighed against risk otherwise.
