The only period I got to hear different conspiracy stories about the thing called "vaccine" was during the COVID-19 pandemic, when it invaded our nations without our permission. It was that moment that I understood that term properly.
A few Sundays ago, my aunt and I visited her school daughter who had just given birth. This school daughter has been married for a couple of years without a child, so hearing the news, I told myself I would join my aunt in visiting her.
So we got to the house and sat there, talking and laughing. Making different jokes where I almost laughed my lungs out. From talking about one thing, the conversation skyrocketed to another subject matter. We started talking about children taking vaccinations to help fight certain bacteria in their system. Then the person who gave birth said she won't allow nurses to give her daughter any kind of vaccination.
I opened my mouth where I was seated, since I hadn't given birth before. I decided to keep my mouth shut because I don't have any contribution to make concerning a topic like that. So she shared an experience her friend's child had and here is the story.
That her friend took her child to the hospital for normal immunization exercise at the beginning of the month, people from my part of the world would understand better. So the nurse who was attending to them gave the baby a certain vaccine on the baby's shoulder. On getting home the baby wouldn't stop crying. Even in the night, the baby was crying, so in the morning she checked the spot where the vaccine was injected and noticed it was swollen and reddish.
So she took the baby back to the hospital and was hospitalized for some days before the baby could recover. Hearing that story my aunt's school daughter decided that she wasn't gonna take her daughter to the hospital for such immunization exercise where children are gonna be given vaccines.
I know I haven't given birth yet, but then I've seen and heard positive stories of how these vaccines help our system fight certain diseases. For newborns whose systems aren't strong enough to fight bacteria on their own, these vaccines help make their systems stronger to be able to fight these bacteria.
In this world we live in, everybody has a story to tell. People look at others' negative experiences and assume a thing is bad, and it shouldn't be so. Vaccines are good and help our system, and a lot of people don't get it, maybe because of their ignorance, but then I'm gonna say reasons best known to them, not me.
I was talking to a health worker lately who has been advising me on taking vaccines, saying that it's a better way of preventing diseases before they get into our bodies. He said if we delay vaccination we are at risk of getting seriously sick. I believe, as humans, we often wait till the sickness invades our lives, and then we can be serious.
Vaccines are safe, tested and trusted by medical practitioners before giving it out to the public, not forgetting the fact that every medicine has side effects and vaccine isn't an exemption, its side effect is even minor.
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