We do not have charitable words for those spreading wild conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines for the good people of this country.
Such bad persons, irresponsible as they are, exist in every part of the world. Those within our fold are however the most vicious, their agenda simply to throw spanners into the works of fighting the pandemic without offering alternatives.
These are the same actors who love to comment about any project but lack the requisite wherewithal to come up with alternatives.
Reducing such serious subjects such as a pandemic to the usual campaign trail cacophony is not only disingenuous; it is irresponsible and even bordering on imbecility.
We can vouch on equal condemnation from other well meaning Ghanaians who would rather the pandemic is confined to the annals of medicine within the shortest possible time.
The world must get back to work and so the irresponsible comments which seek to give the vaccination project of which we are yet to take our turn a bad name and therefore reduce it to a non-starter should be dismissed as arrant nonsense.
Such baseless theories should be denied access to the mass media lest they poison our efforts at vaccinating all Ghanaians by the time we have enough jabs in the country.
We were guided by good reason to editorialise on the possible challenges which could impede the local rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. The effusions of garrulous persons on every subject are some of the hiccups which could affect the success of the rollout unless we shut them up.
We have observed international dignitaries take the jabs in front of television cameras as an effective means of convincing others to follow suit.
Rather than congratulate government for her foresight in importing the vaccines whose arrival date is in six months time, the conspiracy theorists are busy spewing baseless arguments.
Such nonentities would turn round and accuse government of being uncaring by not importing vaccines for the people of Ghana.
We can recall without difficulty the effect of similar theories which was waged against the poliomyelitis inoculation in some parts of the world. Afghanistan and parts of the north of Nigeria come to mind as some of the last places on earth where polio lurked long after it was eliminated in most parts of the world. This affected the WHO’s time frame for the eradication of the disease.
With no capacity to produce the vaccines immediately, it would be unwise on the part of us to display such ignorance by standing in the way of the jabs even before they arrive.
Those who stand against the importation of COVID-19 vaccines for the country cannot be said to be acting in the interest of the nation’s health.
Ghana needs the vaccines regardless of the nonsensical effusions from ill-informed actors.