We should talk to each other more, it is currently being said, and especially listen to those who think differently from ourselves. Because our own experience shows that people who think differently are often not interested in an open dialogue, it was interesting what a distant acquaintance said had a few days to tell. When asked how he was doing, he replied, “Fantastic!” What, fantastic?
Well, he said, he was just very happy that his quarantine was finally over and that he had survived the corona infection without any problems. Then the question arose: “Vaccinated or not vaccinated?” He was not vaccinated, he said bluntly, but immediately afterwards said he did not want to argue. All the better, because I didn’t want to do missionary work, but I would like to hear in person what keeps people from vaccinating.
He had traveled a lot, he said, also to countries for which he had to be vaccinated with all kinds of things. So he is not a vaccine opponent, he just doesn’t trust the mRNA substances. Okay, you don’t have to share the assessment, but individual reservations can be accepted as long as there are no crude ideas behind them. He was also glad that his mother had been vaccinated, said the acquaintance, which seemed somehow undecided, because: If I mistrust something, I really don’t want my relatives to come into contact with it, do I?
Anyone who is happy about their mother’s vaccination does not at least question the existence of the virus. “No, not at all,” he confirmed, although he doubts its dangerousness. He calculated that during the pandemic in Germany around 100,000 people died with or from Corona in just under two years, in order to immediately deal with numbers of supposedly normal flu waves, in which the death rate was hardly lower.
When he replied that the flu wave four years ago, with around 25,000 deaths in Germany, was the highest in decades, he reacted surprisingly open-minded: “Aha, well, I’ll be taught better.” Sounded good, only: His numbers have to he came from somewhere – just like the recklessness of spreading it unchecked. But it’s good that we talked about it.