When politicians or health authorities exhibit a knee-jerk reaction every time there is an accident or mishap in the vaccination process, because they are afraid that their inaction or perceived ineptitude would incur widespread public condemnation.
Be it someone being accidentally jabbed with three times the stipulated dosage of a vaccine, or a teenager being injected with a shot meant only for adults, vaccine fundamentalism lurks in the minds of health officials, who are answerable for the mistakes of others to pacify an oft-misgiving public.
by MathPlus June 9, 2021