Everyone should be free to choose to be vaccinated or not based on their own understanding of the science, personal feelings and what they believe to be their own best interests. However, declining to partake of the only real tool the world has to minimize the spread of Covid (remember masks and all the other PPE and protocol measures don't work apparently) remains a self-centered decision void of any sense of social responsibility. I get it if you feel the vaccines are unsafe and I can understand the personal decision of not getting vaccinated based on this belief (an erroneous belief imo). What I do not understand and cannot condone is the practice of taking a personal belief and attempting to sway others to the same belief by way of cleverly crafted misinformation, voluminous repetition or deliberate obfuscation. Personal decisions are one thing. An individual's societal obligations to others as a member of that society are something else entirely. Eg. Drink as much as you want. Fall down if you feel so inclined. Do not however, get behind the wheel and drive around town knocking other people down just because you physically can and personally feel justified driving after drinking all afternoon.
If the vaccines were actually fully approved, perhaps there would be more compliance.
If the vaccines actually worked to fully protect against Covid, perhaps there would be more compliance.
If there were actually any studies done to show the vaccines will not have longer term effects on the population, perhaps there would be more compliance.
If a persons reluctance, in the face of the unanswered If's identified above, is somehow a self-centered decision...........then that is their decision to make..........not anyone else's..............and has nothing to do with "any sense of social responsibility" unless and until the above If's are adequately addressed.
And even then, you have this government and some on here posting absolute nonsense about 90+% of the people in one province being vaccinated......as if it is some magic bullet to assuage tourists and tourism.
Finally, there is so much reluctance in the DR, such that it is reported that only 36% of the DR has been fully vaccinated.............and those that claim it is misinformation as the reason why.....................should ask the question.........
Is it really misinformation................or lack of credible information?
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2