Me personal vs we national

DR. A.C OBHOLZER WRITES: At Independence, in 1990, the Founding Father identified ignorance, poverty and disease as the main challenges facing the new Namibia. In 2020/21 we are struggling with a deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Our main weapon in breaking the cycle of transmission, a vaccine of choice, is underutilized, due to ignorance and disinformation.The complication rate, of note, of vaccines is 0.1%. The benefits are protection against the complications of Covid-19. The statistics of deaths prove this.The longer we delay in reaching 80% herd immunity, the longer the pandemic will last and new variants will appear.Information is knowledge, the power of choice, and security. Use your right to critical common-sense and make a socially responsible decision. Get vaccinated for mutual benefit. Ignorance is not bliss. It is a handicap.Masks, social distancing, hand hygiene, un-crowding, only slow the pandemic. They don’t eliminate it.Fear of the “unknown”, the vaccine, is paralysing the evidence based scientific efforts of the MoHSS to control and break the pandemic. It is sabotaging public health. If this persists, GRN will have no choice but to make vaccination compulsory, in the public service, hospitals, schools, transport, restaurants, shops, churches, old age homes, sport etc.It is not a “me” personal choice. It is a “we” national priority.In South Africa the universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Rhodes have announced mandatory vaccination for students and staff from the 1st of January 2022.The cost of the pandemic is huge, with a massive negative socio-economic impact. The economy is going downhill since 2017.In the current financial year, the government has budgeted N$1b to combat Covid-19. It has also set aside N$9b to simulate / relieve the economy. Tourism is on its knees, and poverty/unemployment has increased.The total cost of the pandemic by actuarial analysis is likely to be close to N$20b. We will only know how bad (debt) it is with the next budget. Increased expenses and decreased income lead to a debt trap.Adults who refuse the vaccine for non-medical reasons should pay their own way if admitted to hospital with Covid-19.You cannot fight Covid-19 with “free for all” democracy. You need common sense, and evidence-based autocracy to fight the common enemy.Harambee / ubuntu.

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