TERRY M. CORR: Vaccination as conspiracy? Doesn’t make sense

The COVID-19 virus and its variants do not care what gender you are, what race you are, what your religious beliefs are, or what political party you are affiliated with.

If you are a human being and unprotected against this virus, you are a sitting duck to become infected and are so much more at risk of being hospitalized and of dying from this virus!

I cannot fathom the battles and theories people are in an uproar about … trying to remain unprotected!

I am 69 years old. I am in the generation that took the polio vaccines to help protect us and which eventually helped eradicate polio for generations to come. I am in the generation that took the smallpox vaccine, again our parents’ way to protect us, but also which eradicated smallpox for generations to come.

In more recent years, I was on the Advisory Board of the National Meningitis Association … actively campaigning for education and awareness of Meningococcal (Bacterial) Meningitis, and promoting the vaccine for our young people, who were contracting this disease in increasing numbers, first at the college level, then high school and then even middle school. The meningitis vaccine is now routinely given to 12-year-olds, again to protect against a gruesome and deadly disease.

When my children were about to enter kindergarten, and later college, they were required to have written proof from their pediatrician that they were up to date on all of their required vaccines. Again, this was for their own protection, as well as the protection of everyone else.

So why, now, is the vaccination against another deadly disease (COVID-19) — a virus which has claimed millions of lives and is still actively doing so — why, now, is protection for everyone considered a conspiracy?!

Really?!

In my humble opinion, if you are someone who is feeding this frenzy, then you are a big part of the problem in keeping the spread of this virus at topnotch speed.

To quote N.M.A.: “Don’t wait — vaccinate!” This could save your life and the lives of your loved ones.