Letter to the editor: On vaccine Darwinism – Oklahoman.com

Gary Pinnell| Guest Columnist

What is vaccine Darwinism?

Darwinism is the theory that natural selection increases an individuals ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

Or decreases. In economics, the weakest businesses fail. In history, the weakest civilizations fail.And in COVID-19, the weakest humans fail: the weakest immune systems and the weakest thinkers.

The strongest thinkers observed CDC guidelines: they wore masks, they washed hands; when vaccines became available, they rolled up sleeves.

The anti-vaxers? According to the National Institutes of Health, in 2009, about 60 percent of parents with children aged 24 to 35 months did not delay or refuse diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and polio vaccines.

About 26 percent of parents did delay or refuse vaccines; they selected their own children to test their own anti-vaccine theory. Now they risk themselves and their children for COVID-19.

Thats vaccine Darwinism.

Gary Pinnell, Oklahoma City

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