When the decision to vaccinate or not is too important to be left in the hands of so-called health experts, university hospital professors and researchers, pharmaceutical firms, and politicians, who all have a
vested interest in promoting vaccination, be it for
herd immunity; economic recovery;
vaccine diplomacy, supremacy, or nationalism; profiteering; popularity; or politicsâtheir mantra is that the benefits of getting a shot outweigh the risks, whose short-term advice may not always be in the long-term health interest of the general public.
Just because a decent proportion of the population have been partially or fully vaccinated for whatever personal, selfish, or altruistic reasons, this doesnât mean that others too should blindly or ritually
follow suit, because
groupthink or the âwisdom of the crowdâ doesnât always translate in all spheres of life, particularly when potential long-term adverse effects associated with nontraditional techniques of producing vaccines cannot be discountedâwhen
vaccine hesitancy is healthy for those who wonât let themselves easily fall for, or be fooled by, any health expertâs recommendation.
