Illiteracy is a disease that kills very slowly but surely.
We live in an information-driven world, but there are still a lot of people who lack information about the things they should know because they have been subscribed to the wrong kinds of information.
As a child my dad would always make us watch the news, especially the NTA news hour on Sundays. Back then I can remember that in one of the episodes during the immunization of kids, a lot of ignorant parents took their children away and wouldn't let them take those drugs to vaccinate their kids, especially against polio.
When asked, some of the parents, especially the mothers, say that they didn't have to get any vaccinations, and so their kids are just fine without it.
But the reality is that most of those kids later grow up with defects that could have been avoided if only their parents had let them take those drugs.
One of the biggest myths about vaccination is that vaccines contain a percentage of the disease they are meant to fight against and that when they are administered, the dose of the disease helps to now activate antibodies in a person to combat the disease.
I don't know how true this is, but I believe everything has to do with our minds. I want to listen to someone that said that he saw news about a popular drink that said that that drink now had fake products in the market. Funny enough, he had just finished consuming a bottle of that same drink.
Now his mind went to work, and he believed that he had taken the fake because the bottle in the advert and the bottle that he had drunk from were exactly the same and that was being depleted as the fake.
According to him, he purged profusely throughout that until the next day, when he saw that the company had released their own news saying that they were rebranding.
In the same way, a lot of people think that a dosage of whatever disease is placed in the vaccine and given to them to stimulate the antibodies so that their bodies will be able to produce a defense against such diseases.
Which makes it scary for a lot of people to want to take vaccines. I experienced first hand someone who took the covid vaccine; she was already afraid, but she needed to take it, and then after taking it, she fell seriously ill because her mind had already taught her that it was a dosage of the virus in the drug that she was going to take, and so it was very scary.
What I think could be done is for the medical association to give a clear picture of what vaccines are all about; there should be a sensitization of the general public where a campaign could be held, and then people are sensitized to the need for vaccination, and this could go a long way to help create an awareness in people's hearts and make them fearless about taking vaccines.
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