Don’t censor the anti-vaxxers

Pfizer has come up trumps. Now that a vaccine for Covid-19 is more than just a possibility, we can breathe a collective sigh of relief. But before we relax too much, a new problem arises: will people actually take it?

A third of people in the UK – and half of people in the United States – say they are either uncertain or unlikely to agree to be vaccinated against coronavirus, according to research from the Royal Society and the British Academy. It’s easy to scorn anti-vaxxers. They are the tin-foil hat wearing idiots who set fire to 5G phone masts at the start of the ‘plandemic’. They are the ‘reckless, ‘shameful’ and irresponsible parents who are happy to put their children at risk if it means getting one over on Big Pharma or the Tech Giants. They are at best, gullible; at worst, dangerous.

I am not one of them. My eldest child, now 22, was born when panic over the MMR jab was all the rage.