Vaccine Hesitancy and Chocolate Fudge

Vincent J. Curtis

19 Aug 21

RE: It doesn’t surprise me we have a low rate

RE: Concern over low inoculation numbers in rural Flamborough.  News items in the Hamilton Spectator 19 Aug 21

These news stories show that low vaccination rates are not due to a lack of availability of the vaccines or information about them.  It isn’t that the poor and the downtrodden are being denied vaccines by a cruel capitalist system.  Nor are people kept unaware of the information concerning the vaccines, though they may not understand it.  It shows that people are choosing not to be vaccinated.

Vaccination with a non-approved vaccine is a complicated matter, and it should surprise no one that different people can reach different conclusion so far as it affects them.  A recovered COVID patient need not, and probably should not, get a vaccine.  First, already having the anti-bodies, vaccination is useless.  You don’t vaccinate a person against a disease they’ve already had.  At worst, the vaccine could produce a negative reaction in that individual.

These stories also show that people who choose not get vaccinated are unlikely to be coerced into getting vaccinated by forced testing, vaccine passport requirements, or masking mandates.  They just don’t live in that world where these things are major inconveniences.  Applying coercive measures like vaccine passports on the majority who are vaccinated isn’t going to move the unvaccinated into changing their minds.

Another astonishing revelation is the lack of understanding of masking and vaccination status.  If you are vaccinated and aren’t infected with the virus, your wearing a mask isn’t going to save the unvaccinated from the disease you aren’t carrying!

It’s the unvaccinated who are most at risk from infection – and they choose to take that risk!  If you’re vaccinated, casual contact with a full-blown coughing up COVID case isn’t going to infect you.  You don’t need a mask because, in the first place, that’s what the vaccination is for.

Putting chocolate icing onto chocolate fudge isn’t going to make the combination taste more chocolaty.

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