Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Strange Case of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ironically, the numbers of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 symptoms in fully vaccinated people are on the rise. But despite increases in numbers of cases in both vaccinated and unvaccinated, the numbers of deaths are at all-time low. Yet, instead of taking a pause and re-evaluating data from all angles, calls for vaccination mandate have gotten louder. These calls for COVID-19 vaccine mandates have revealed a side of a block of people that is very akin to the strange case of Jekyll and Hyde by R.L. Stevenson.

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In the last couple of months, many main stream media outlets have published Opinion pieces about the unvaccinated. To label and judge all unvaccinated as anti-vaxxers is puzzling. There is a group of people who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated. And then there are some experts, very well familiar with all aspects of the science behind virus and vaccines in the community, who are genuinely concerned about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, especially in children, healthy adults, and question the necessity to vaccinate people who have recovered from natural SARS-CoV-2 infection. To brush aside all these very valid concerns and not even engage in a conversation and scientific discussion, is puzzling, to say the least.