Is the world reaping the backlash of the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement? It seems that way.One of the unintended consequences of the so called “anti-vaxxers” cause, which is filled with hyperbole and conspiracies about the necessity and side-effects of vaccinations, has resulted in a rise is several diseases that have been, for the most part, eradicated from most of the world.The propaganda that flourished during the pandemic, whipping up hysteria against what has been a long proven and effective way of protecting populations against several diseases, has worked.All that is required to put an entire population at risk is for enough people to decide that they do not want to be vaccinated and the disease establishes itself.Often mutations develop that evade vaccinations, as we have seen with the COVID-19 and the number of variants that continue to sicken and kill Barbadians.
