Editor:
Don Quixote was a romantic hero, a character who refused to see the world the way everyone else did in a boring, conventional and dogmatic way. Quixote was a noble hero, a knight who represented truth and justice, charged with vanquishing the wrong doers! At least, that is how he saw himself. In reality, Quixote was a demented old man who indulged his delusions so that he could pretend to be a hero. It was only dumb luck that saved him from causing serious harm or death to himself, those foolish enough to follow him, and the hapless folks who crossed his path as he bumbled around in his made-up world.
The anti-vaccine crusaders at Davis Bay beach appear to believe that they are like Erin Brockovich, a real-life romantic underdog who fought against the awesome forces of greed and evil. They are mistaken. Brockovich had science on her side. To be a romantic hero, it’s not enough to be the underdog, one actually has to be right. The anti-vaxxers are not right, and science is not on their side.
It is long past the time for anti-vaxxers to face the fact that they are, like Don Quixote, false heroes. On his deathbed Quixote finally confessed the errors of his ways. I appeal to today’s anti-vaxxers: Do not wait, like the unvaccinated COVID patients in our ICUs and hospitals, come to your senses before you lead others to harm.
David Chisholm, Sechelt
