Anti-vaxxer Prashant Bhushan must be penalised for selling vaccine hesitancy

Prashant Bhushan, the ‘PIL-jeevi‘ of India, wants to instigate a health disaster in the country. Not a day passes when he does not tweet against vaccines and masks. Twitter often flags his posts as misleading but refrains from suspending his account.At a time when the government is making every possible effort to accelerate vaccination and has spent millions of dollars to get rid of vaccine hesitancy among the masses, Prashant Bhushan is propagating the idea that vaccines are not only ineffective but also have negative effects.“A lot of people including friends & family have accused me of promoting Vaccine hesitancy, let me clarify my position. I am not anti Vaccine per se. But I believe it is irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental&untested vaccines esp to young & Covid recovered,” tweeted Bhushan with a news clipping in which a person claimed that vaccine killed his wife.Prashant Bhushan – you claim not to be against vaccines but consistently spout anti-vaxx sentiments, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.Vaccines have undergone trials and are safe and efficacious.You seem to have gone completely blind to the impact of the 2nd wave in India https://t.co/SppE776cRV— Dr. Haryax Pathak (@HaryaxPathak) June 28, 2021“The healthy young have hardly any chance of serious effects or dying due to covid. They have a higher chance of dying due to vaccines. The covid recovered have much better natural immunity, than the vaccine gives them. Vaccines may even compromise their acquired natural immunity,” Bhushan added.A lot of people including friends & family have accused me of promoting Vaccine hesitancy, let me clarify my position.I am not anti Vaccine per se. But I believe it is irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental&untested vaccines esp to young & Covid recovered https://t.co/SVHwgyZcvU— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) June 28, 2021Bhushan, overestimating his influence on the people and people’s concern for his life, stated that “For the record, I have not taken, nor do I intend to take any Covid Vaccine”.Previously a tweet by Bhushan was eliminated by Twitter as a result of he requested the individuals to not put on masks as in keeping with him, they don’t seem to be efficient. “The data suggest that facemasks are ineffective to block transmission of viral and infectious disease such as COVID-19. Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects,” tweeted Bhushan, urging them to “read this detailed study on masks”.Twitter is doing its job (though half as a result of ideally, it ought to have suspended the account) by eradicating or flagging the content material posted by Prashant Bhushan however the Indian authorities just isn’t. Bhushan is a public enemy as a result of he’s brazenly asking individuals to defy the federal government’s orders and in addition telling them that in the event that they observe the federal government’s orders, it is going to have opposed physiological and psychological results.Bhushan will be booked underneath many sections of the Indian Penal Code together with for instigation of chaos. Thousands of scientific research have proved that masks and vaccines are efficient in controlling coronavirus and docs world wide have advisable individuals to put on masks and get vaccinated. Moreover, even when masks and vaccines usually are not that efficient, then, as the favored saying goes – “Precaution is better than cure”.Bhushan must be thrown behind the bars as quickly as potential as a result of his freedom of speech, in addition to bodily freedom, is harmful for the nation.It appears as if Prashant Bhushan desires to create unrest within the society and desires coronavirus to unfold throughout the nation in order that he can tackle the Modi authorities and make efforts to take it down. Lawyers like Prashant Bhushan thrive on the distress of the individuals and all the time argue for choices which might be in opposition to the welfare of the bulk.Anarchy-loving individuals like Bhushan thrive on chaos and wish the society to stay unstable endlessly. Their contempt for the federal government of the day, no matter the social gathering, makes them harmful for a simply and harmonious society and their place is behind the bars.