[COLUMN] Vaccination must be made compulsory
There are some naysayers who refuse to vaccinate under the pretext that 'Covid-19 vaccines are not good', writes Elvis Masoga.
Lacking in scientific acumen, the anti-vaccine brigade poses a danger to the survival of humanity.
All arguments professed by them are misguided and a cocktail of innuendos and fallacies is feeding their anti-vaccine conspiracy. Vaccines provide humanity with absolute salvation and redemption against the ferocious pandemic.
Vaccines are the only clinical fortress that offers a concrete borderline between life and death. Scientific experiments have proven that vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe symptoms, hospitalisation and even death as a result of Covid-19. But the anti-vaccine pessimists have not conducted any scientific study to support their arguments.
Permit me to dissect and disprove the three fallacies peddled by the anti-vaccine brigade. Firstly, they contend that vaccines will cause long-term physiological pathology in the body. Secondly, they insist that vaccines will cause erectile dysfunction and sexual infertility among men. Thirdly, they argue that vaccines fail to prevent death among Covid-19 infected persons.
The world’s medical scientists, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) have conducted clinical experiments on the efficacy of vaccines. These scientists discovered that vaccines cause minor side-effects that are temporary in nature. Scientists at Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge and Johns Hopkins universities have also confirmed that vaccines do not cause any erectile dysfunction and infertility among men. Just recently, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) confirmed that no one in the country has died as a result of being vaccinated.
We must stop tolerating the empty slogans chanted by the cynics. Government must urgently declare vaccines mandatory and compulsory. The mooted vaccine passports must become an entry requirement at every public facility. All citizens must be obliged to produce proof of vaccination before they enter any business premises, malls, shops and workplaces. All job advertisements must indicate and specify ‘vaccine passports’ as a cardinal requirement for employment. We must isolate and penalise any person who refuses to get vaccinated. Unvaccinated people are four times more likely to transmit the virus to the next person.
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