Covid Vaccination Avoidance Syndrome

Conspiracy theories abound around the issue of CoVid19 and the world wide pandemic.

Predictably a sort of manic suspicion has emerged, particularly on the political right.

It's amusing when people latch on to narratives that are unsubstantiated and impossible to validate with facts and evidence.

It's because humans try to assign a big cause to a big event or problem.  In the light of no reasonable explanation for something unique and unpredictable, we invent narratives to make sense of the phenomenon.  The trouble is when people buy into incorrect or false narratives they come up with all sorts of crazy arguments to justify their position.

For instance: claiming that your body is a temple and must not be defiled whilst you'll happily scoff anything from a MacDonalds burger to a piece of genetically modified fruit is evidence of how unconsciously we navigate reality.

The vaccines are there to allow us to get back to relative normality as quickly as possible.  To assert that there is a vast conspiracy that ring-fences nurses, doctors, scientists, public officials, news organisations, politicians, police and anyone else who is responsible for the health and safety of our societies requires too vast a system of assumptions to even possibly be true. (See Occam's Razor.)

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