Vaccines are not as bad as people make them look.

Hello, everyone.

Vaccines are not as bad as people make them look. Some people make vaccines look like taking them will bring about the end of the world, but the truth is that vaccines save lives and do not take them. I was born into a family where my parents took vaccinations seriously, and as kids, they ensured we did not miss a single vaccine, and it did not go beyond the day we were supposed to take the vaccine even by a minute. If there was a chart for when it comes to taking health and vaccines seriously, my parents would be topping the charts.

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Vaccines have helped to prevent the spread of dreaded diseases. Diseases that could have wiped out all of humanity were stopped by vaccinating those who had not contracted the disease while those who had the disease were being treated. It is no new news that once there is a suspected wave or spread of a disease coming up, health professionals are instructed to go around and give vaccines to people to help make them immune or prevent them from contracting the disease.

Though I did not take the COVID-19 vaccine as a result of the negative news flying around about the vaccine and how instead of preventing the spread of the virus, it was claiming people's lives instead and leaving some disabled for life, I decided to stay away, as it is better I don't take the vaccine and have the virus to deal with than to take the vaccine and have complications. I might not have taken the COVID-19 vaccine, but I have taken a lot of other vaccines, from the yellow fever vaccine to polio and meningitis, and one time in my high school, medical professionals came and gave us tablets for reasons we do not know, and they made sure every student chewed that particular tablet.

Vaccines help to prevent a lot of complications that could come up in the future. I have seen it happen countless times when I was based in the northern part of the country. Many northerners failed to allow their kids to be injected with the polio vaccine at the right time and felt like they were doing the right thing, but over time they saw the consequences of their actions and ended up regretting not injecting their kids with the vaccines. Many kids during that period turned out crippled and bedridden because they could not use their legs; many kids ended up paralyzed or had weak muscles and could not comfortably make use of their legs.

That period in the northern part of the country was one that ruined the lives of kids; even politicians milked the opportunity and provided many of the crippled/paralyzed kids with wheelchairs and hand cycles as empowerment. All of these would have been avoided if only the parents were not ignorant enough. Vaccines are good; they prevent the spread of diseases, prevent complications in the long run, and are the best way to arrest and curb a situation that involves the spread of any disease.

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As much as vaccines are good, we need to be careful enough not to take the ones that will cause us more harm than good.