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
politics—their 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 doesn’
t mean that others too should blindly or ritually follow suit, because groupthink or the “wisdom of the crowd” doesn’
t always translate in all spheres of life, particularly when potential long-term adverse effects associated with nontraditional techniques of producing vaccines cannot be discounted—when vaccine hesitancy is healthy for those who won’
t let themselves easily fall for, or be fooled by, any health expert’
s recommendation.