Pharmacist and my grandma
What my grandmother said to my father seventy years ago and a video clip which was posted in WhatsApp by a well-known pharmacist has the same the idea, content and logic despite what the world has witnessed over this relatively long period of great development and change in scientific and medical progress.
I remember when I was a boy when the government announced its intention to vaccinate schoolboys and girls against an epidemic such as polio, the schools were largely empty.
A big percentage of the parents, and often the simple ones, were obsessed (and still are) with suspicion and fear of what governments are doing, and their belief in the conspiracy theory which remains deeply imbibed in the minds of the foolish, they prevented their children from going to school so that the authorities would not give them vaccines or injections that may result in side effects, or affect their fertility or their intelligence. I don’t know what fertility and intelligence they were talking about.
I remember the argument between my father, who was open to his time, because he used to read books with great enthusiasm, and my grandmother who used to warn him against allowing us to go to school and get vaccinated, and I hoped that her opinion would prevail so that I would stay at home and play in the street with most children whose families had prevented them from going to school for the same reason.
The well-known pharmacist says, in January 2021 of the twenty-first century, that we must not take the vaccine against the corona epidemic and it is better to wait, and that what is said about the vaccine not interacting with drugs taken by some is not true and that the vaccine was not sufficiently tested but was given the nod in a hurry for financial reasons, and describes her words as scientifically sound.
What the pharmacist said in the clip was empty talk from beginning to end with her insistence on reminding the seriousness of the media and the need to know what is said and published in it, thus she did not hesitate to participate and confuse the thinking of her followers, and create a dangerous state of unjustified panic in them, especially those who hesitate to take the vaccine under the pretext that it has not been tried and it has not been confirmed that it does not interact with other drugs.
The words of this pharmacist and other skeptics are a crime against logic, medicine and science, and the billions spent by developed countries on laboratory and scientific experiments which ultimately led to the approval of a number of anti-corona vaccines.
It is also an insult to the mind and the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of scientists and simple people who participated in the trial of the vaccine on themselves, risking their health to save humanity, including this pharmacist.
I don’t know when we will be ashamed and stop going through what we do not know but to trust science and medicine. So how can we accept willingly to undergo surgeries and anesthetics and allow surgeons to change and cut parts of our bodies whatever they want and then we come and warn others against taking a vaccine, the approval of which took many months, during which millions died from the epidemic, and we repeat with all coldness of nerves and a silly smile and believe in a more ridiculous statement like that, exposing the lives of thousands including loved ones and relatives to real danger because they believed an irresponsible statement?
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