A psychological perspective on vaccines | Letter
Published 1:30 am Friday, March 25, 2022
I recently came across an article in Mary Jane’s Farm Magazine that I think explains the psychology behind the mass acceptance of the experimental Covid vaccines. Mary Jane wrote a short article in which she compares living through the Polio pandemic with Covid. I don’t know what her opinion is on Covid vaccines, but that’s what is interesting about this comparison because we can look at something that technically has nothing to do with Covid but gives a psychological perspective on people’s reaction to an experimental vaccine.
She writes, “Born in 1953, I got in on the sugar cube vaccine (for Polio), but my older siblings endured the field trials that caused arm scarring and even worse, some of them received a placebo, a mother’s biggest worry.” A mother’s biggest worry. Really!
Now, this may just be Mary Jane’s personal opinion of what parents were thinking back then, but if this is anything to go by, it tells me everything right there.
Obviously, it doesn’t cross people’s minds that an experimental vaccine can be just as dangerous as the disease it’s made to prevent. Fearing the placebo more than the experimental vaccine isn’t really logical, but that’s just the problem. People don’t act logically when they are panicked.
What I’m realizing is, people have an addiction to vaccines. When a crisis like Covid happens they demand a vaccine immediately. The parents during the Polio pandemic became so impatient that they lost respect for our testing system. As annoying as placebos might seem, they are necessary. We had the system in place for a reason. The problem now, is we have a lot of doctors who are disregarding the system. The common people’s attitude toward vaccines hasn’t really changed. What’s changed is we now have incompetent doctors.
Later in the article, Mary Jane goes on to admit that some children were injured by botched vaccines, so yes it was a real problem. People have an inordinate lack of fear of experimental vaccines. And they demand a simple solution for a complex problem.
Maria Bolte,
San Juan Island
