Force is Not Necessary

Aug 07, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

This letter is intended to be an inquiry into the application of Section 145 of Guyana’s Constitution in the issue of those of our people resisting the vaccine being intended to “protect us” from Covid-19.
Section 145 begins with the subsection, “Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of conscience, and for the purposes of this
article. The said freedom includes freedom of thought and of religion, freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others, and both in public and in private, to manifest and propagate his religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance ” followed by six other sub-sections.
With all the knowledge and information, both good and bad, being afforded to the people, through various means, on the vaccines, doesn’t the sovereignty of the people allow them to choose whatever they think is best? Force should not be necessary.
Our Head of State stated on the 4th day of August, 2021 that “unvaccinated persons are as deadly as the virus itself” and against the backdrop of the universal concept of belief being a cure or a killer with due respect to the discretion of the beholder/what the scientific world has accepted to be the placebo effect, that statement concerns me as a son of the soil. Reference to Section 145 must again be made. The late Emperor of Ethiopia, Tafari Makonnen, spoke of persuasion over force and factually, numerous citizens have been persuaded on their own time that the vaccine is safe. There should be no need to force anybody to take it nor should there be any stigma or discrimination against those who are only doing as they are entitled. May those entrusted to serve and protect us, humbly do so without fear or favour. God protects Guyana.

Concerned Guyanese

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