“STOP HANDLING! I think that a possible vaccination against coronavirus should not be mandatory. Just as there are no mandatory vaccination against influenza. As for other diseases (polio, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, etc.), it is completely different. Another conversation” – wrote the president .
Let us add that in his entry the president is wrong – there is no vaccine for scarlet fever. Due to the acute course, it is necessary to visit a doctor and implement the appropriate treatment. The patient must take antibiotics. Recovery takes about two weeks.
– However, when it comes to the vaccine. I am absolutely not in favor of any compulsory vaccinations. I will tell you openly – I personally never got vaccinated against influenza, because I think not. Of course, I had various vaccinations as a child and later as an adolescent boy, but I have never vaccinated against flu and I do not want to be vaccinated, and I think that coronavirus vaccination should absolutely not be mandatory – said Duda.
– You’re welcome – who wants a vaccine, let him get vaccinated, but who doesn’t – it’s his personal decision – he emphasized.
– On the other hand, I think that whether it will be a medicine or a vaccine, it should be available to seniors first, because they are the greatest risk group, and it should be available free of charge – said Duda.
The commentators quickly caught the controversial statement. Patryk Słowik from Dziennik Dziennik Gazeta Prawna wrote briefly: “Massacre. President-anti-vaccinee”
The discussion was undertaken by the former government spokesman, currently PiS MP Rafał Bochenek, considering the president simply a “libertarian”.
Onet journalist Kamil Dziubka got a lot of irony.
And the consequences (or lack thereof) of this president’s declaration were analyzed by Konrad Piasecki from TVN24.
The anti-vaccination movement began to grow in 1998, when Andrew Wakefield published an article in the very reputable Lancet medical journal that some vaccines can cause autism. In 2010, it was proved that Wakefield falsified data and that he was knowingly acting on behalf of alternative vaccine manufacturers. He was deprived of the right to practice, and “Lancet” withdrew the article from the archive. It was too late.
Anti-scientific movement began to grow more and more dynamically thanks to the Internet. This popularity is devastating. Vaccinations save about 6 million people every year, but in many countries, including Poland, the percentage of vaccinated children is decreasing. There are much more cases of measles and whooping cough. The memory of the polio epidemic, which in the 1950s was a massive fear in our country, and for which the vaccine was invented by a Pole, Hilary Koprowski, faded.
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