Stop trumpeting nonsensical theories of vaccines

WHEN ensuring sufficiency of the vaccine supply is a round-the-clock responsibility of certain concerning parties, there are human beings who keep horrifying others with nonsensical theories of COVID-19 vaccines.

It’s so unpleasant to realise that fabrication of facts is now being applauded as a social norm.

Being sustainably healthy must be made everyone’s top priority, especially since the COVID-19 has become the global pandemic, and adding up untrue and nonsensical ‘facts’ to any formally-told stories or news must not be welcomed when millions of lives are seriously needing scientific cures for the unwanted virus that can harmfully infect us, regardless of our intelligent quotient.

I am, personally, grateful to know that vaccines have finally been created, and Pfizer, one of its kinds, has just landed.

Despite the good news, I am, sometimes, annoyed with certain social media users who unwisely believe in ‘conspiracy theories’ whispered by those whose knowledge in medical science is below zero.

Creating a fake news or a worrying belief shouldn’t be made a free-time activity by “online theorists” as efforts of combating the COVID-19 should not just be concerted by governmental initiatives and SOP compliance by the public but also with right information tubed to our minds.

Right information that are helpful and convincing can consistently educate people to factually understand the importance of vaccination and why it is required as a medical initiative to cure the hell-born infection.

Especially kids, be they schoolchildren or kindergarten pupils, they need to be told of the truths of the vaccines and why getting vaccinated is necessary.

Besides teachers, parents have to really play a role in feeding their kids with informative messages about vaccination that are extracted from reliable, verified and trustworthy sources. Not from a randomly-read WhatsApp text sent by a rarely-met relative or forwarded messages from a stranger we haven’t met.

Nonsense like, “COVID-19 vaccines contain an unseen chip that can spy us,” sounds more fictional than a lyric that says, “I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky.”

It’s very scary that some people can’t differentiate between fiction and reality.

The reality that we are presently facing is that cures to COVID-19 are keenly needed, and what else can we put our hopes for if vaccines are propagated as an ‘underground agenda’?

With the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme being implemented, indispensable information of vaccination are now available on its website for all to read and understand.

We should now stop trumpeting any illogical or unsure information of the vaccines that could demoralise the public’s confidence towards vaccination.

If you are not a honoured health science graduate or a certified medical science professor, don’t be so sure about preaching things that are beyond your intellectual ground.

Therefore don’t be a problem in a problem when the problem can no longer be a problem with you not being a problem.

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* Amerul Azry Abdul Aziz is an independent writer who now views politics as something that can be researched.

** The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of Astro AWANI.