LONDON – Among the reasons that allowed the United Kingdom to become the first country in Europe to see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel is the relatively low number of no-vaxes in this country. People who refuse vaccines also exist here and have made their voices heard in the long year of the Covid-19 lockdowns: there have been several demonstrations in Trafalgar Square, with thousands of demonstrators blocking traffic with sit-ins. mass and blatantly violated the rules on social distancing, causing dozens of arrests. Among the citizens taken away in handcuffs he never lacked Piers Corbyn, brother of ex-Labor leader Jeremy: one who, despite being a scientist by profession, is an astrophysicist and meteorologist, does not believe in science, rejecting the theories on climate change and vaccinations against all kinds of diseases.
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But compared to other European countries, the British no-vaxes are a smaller minority. According to a survey published by YouGov last summer, 16 percent of the population was unsure whether to get the coronavirus vaccine and another 16 percent had not resolved all doubts about it. Another survey of opinion, conducted by the Ipsos Mori institute, found in the same period a 22 percent of citizens between 16 and 34 years old against vaccination against Covid, while the percentage dropped to 11 percent for those between 55 and 75 years old. The oldest, the categories most affected by the virus, were therefore the most in favor of getting vaccinated.
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This is a large part of the population, whose dissent towards the vaccine for this pandemic has contributed to increasing British skepticism towards other common vaccinations, such as that for children against measles. However, these figures are lower than those reported in France, where the no-vax front is close to 40 per cent, and elsewhere on the continent the average is around 30 per cent.
As to why the British are less reluctant to the vaccine, particularly in the case of Covid, various theories are circulating. One is that, compared to other peoples, for example we Italians, they know little about medicines and diseases, so they tend to take what the government tells them about public health in such a dramatic moment. Here it is very rare that antibiotics are administered, no one cares that children get cold (and neither do adults, judging by how children and teenagers went out in the evening in the dead of winter before the pandemic), knowledge of the human body is low: it can happen to hear someone complain of a generic stomach ache, certainly not of the “gall bladder stones” as it is common to overhear in speeches between passengers on trains in Italy.
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In short, the British “stiff upper lip”, facing difficulties head on, and the “keep calm and carry on” of wartime, keeping calm and moving on, may have contributed to the fact that in the UK 34 million people have already received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine or the AstraZeneca vaccine: it is thanks to them that London for the first time since last September has had no victims and if the return to normal has begun, with meetings allowed for up to six people outdoors and the imminent reopening of shops and the hospitality sector.
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But the game isn’t over yet. In the coming months it will be seen whether Britain will be able to reach and exceed the threshold of 70 per cent of the vaccinated population, considered necessary to obtain mass immunity. And if the vast majority of its inhabitants are ready to undergo an annual booster, the first – or the third dose – is already scheduled starting in September, which will almost certainly become a necessary tradition as the vaccine that the categories most at risk they do every year against the flu.
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