Dear Editor,
COALITION leaders are dissuading Guyanese from taking the COVID-19 vaccines, with scant regard for their health and lives, thus putting the lives of innocent people, even children, at risk. This is presumably to suit their agenda of making Guyana ungovernable under a PPP/C administration. David Hinds verbalised their intentions, “undermine the government”, which their avid supporters seem willing to do, even if it costs them their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

The escalation of the coronavirus pandemic is decimating families, with seemingly no end in sight for the deadly virus, which seems to be increasing in ferocity, especially in third-world nations like Guyana.
Prior to the advent of the PPP/C Government, there were scant governmental interventions and support for the afflicted, in particular; and the wider society, which had been forced into a lockdown, in general.

The pressing needs of Guyanese from every community, for protection from infection by COVID-19 virus as well as nutritional sustenance – the latter need of which ensued from lack of employment and job opportunities, seriously exacerbated by the deadly pandemic, saw Dr. Irfaan Ali, who was President-elect at the time, mobilising teams countrywide in mask and food distribution exercises, which was appreciated by even Coalition-supporting communities, especially in light of the fact that the then de-facto Coalition government was ignoring their pressing needs, while simultaneously illegally expending billions from the already depleted national coffers on an unnecessary vote re-count and fruitless legal challenges on nebulous and execrable charges of unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud committed by the PPP/C.

Worldometer reports worldwide infections, last updated on August 13, 2021, as having surpassed 206,254,882, fatalities exceeding 4,348,282; while those recovered are numbering 185,105,477.
Guyana’s below a million population has been hard-hit, with a Worldometer update listing current figures at 23,244 cases, with 569 deaths and 21,848 recovered.

Those rejecting the vaccines do so at their own risk. Harmon and all the Coalition leaders are fully vaccinated. The urging of persons not to be vaccinated is putting innocent people’s lives at risk in this parlous state of affairs.

Yours very truly,
Anson Paul