There is a saying in my tribe that says if we say we should leave the corpse of a mad man's mother for him to bury, he might roast her to eat. Which implies that there are some situations we can't actually stay quiet just because it's the person's life and they will be bearing the consequences alone. Just in case we might be forgetting something, that with all these act of ignorance by people whereby we ignorantly also ignored the fact that we are supposed to speak up against their acts, we directly or indirectly suffer from the consequences too.
It's not until a fellow being will be affecting us with what they do before we try to stop them if truly there's a genuine love and connection.
Although there are still some people who would be adamant on their decisions and you might end up looking like an imposter to them.
Let's take for an instance, during the period of pandemic (COVID-19) when everyone was urged and beseeched to go for the vaccine and all that. Some counted it serious to take and collected the dose in full, some collected halfway not getting full dose while some insisted it's all false vaccination no matter how they were enlightened about it saying it's just a mere malaria sickness the government were trying to camouflage us with as COVID-19.
Unfortunately when these set of people get infected with this virus, they are the type who lives in a crowded environment where they easily infect 20 people and those 20 also unknowingly infect their household. Before you know it, the whole community is infected and it's a lockdown of the virus already.
So definitely, we are not supposed to shut up in cases where the ignorance of these people will not only be affecting them alone but also others who come across them or stay in same environment as them.
Someone who refuses to get his or her baby vaccinated for polio because of one belief or misconception about vaccine should know that they are endangering the lives of other children who would be in same space with their children in the nearest future.
I saw a video of a doctor on LinkedIn where she was analysing a situation of a family whose wife is in labour and couldn't go further unless she undergo caesarian section and the husband was asked to sign the consent form of which he refused, saying the wife must deliver the way her mum delivered her and the mother-in-law too insisting she must deliver her baby like the Hebrew women.
In fact, the husband insisted when he realized that the wife wanted to sign the form by herself since he was still conscious that if she signs it and go ahead with it, he would divorce her...... Like is it even correlating?
Divorce and someone at the point of death!
I guess the medical practitioners were not really doing the needful and that's why the doctor came on to address the issues from the video that such husband was meant to be taken out by securities and either allow the woman sign the form since she is still conscious or the med practitioners sign their own form which she called one name or medical term (It overrides every procedure if it's a case of medical emergency) to save the woman's live as the whole begging with man is only endangering the wife's life and even the baby.
So many people are like that proverb at the first paragraph of this article. They would roast their family corpses if left alone.
It's not about right infringement or any grammar we may want to call it but the fact that saving them is saving a community, a society and a nation.
Awareness must go on massively to re-educate them, change their orientations, erase and replace the myths with genuine information and ensure push of compliance to some necessary points.
I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners community prompt
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