Opposition supporters anti-vaccine stance not driven by health concerns

Sep 08, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

I have no apologies to make when I say that those persons who are fuelling the vaccine hesitancy here should be brought before the courts, charged and locked up. They are not fighting to protect the rights of the people who are joining the picket line. They are engaged in politics. This is not the politics of the people, as expected, according to all they have said. This is nasty, deliberate, and misleading antigovernment politics. I mean, your readers, should listen to the opposition politicians on Facebook using this vaccination issue to score cheap political points. They are milking the issue again for all that it is worth.
They cannot keep my attention because they do not have a programme of developmental goods to offer or talk about. They do not even have a strategy for winning the upcoming Local Government and General Elections here. The APNU+AFC politicians are always short on bright ideas but big on criticising. I remember reading Michael Young’s column in one of the dailies called Crossfire. He is right as it pertains to the strategy and nature of politics in Guyana. It is brutish and cold. The opposition is not concerned about the health and wellbeing of the workers. They probably want this surge in COVID-19 related deaths and hospitalisations to continue. They will get much to talk about to fuel the opposition’s campaign of race hate and discrimination banter. For these irresponsible politicians, it is politics over people. They are not concerned about your health
Finally, I think the government is doing its part to fight this COVID-19 virus on several fronts. Let us all do our part in the fight. Let us get vaccinated and encourage others to do the same. And finally, like the then Opposition Leader and now Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said if they come to our communities, with the anti-vaccine campaign telling you frivolous things about the vaccine, we must chase them out!

Yours faithfully,
Suraj Singh

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