The Story Here... Isn't What You Think It Is
About six weeks ago, I was laying in my bed, doom-scrolling through the comments on the Instagram accounts of local news houses and distraught. My country was about to start rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination programme and the comments were filled with skepticism, hesitancy and outright hostility to the idea of getting vaccinated. Every dangerous and and unevidenced conspiracy about vaccination was circulating in the comments section, with a trail of likes and co-signing comments in their wake. For someone like me who believes in the science behind vaccines and has seen the historical evidence of how my country's very efficient public immunization programme has improved our public health, this was far from encouraging. Taken against the background of a second surge of COVID-19 in the country, this feeling that the populace was very hesitant to vaccinate, meant that my mood was morose. ' We're going to be stuck inside forever. ' ' My daughter's childhood i...