> I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatisation of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.

Or on the flip side, we can keep describing it as what it is, i.e an illness which largely inconveniences the vaccinated and jeopardizes the lives of those who are not.

This really seems like it's just an opinion piece. The vaccine cuts the window of contagion, spares capacity in hospitals for the immunocompromised as well as for people suffering other ailments beyond covid, and enables a resumption of normality necessary for mental health.

People who choose not to vaccinate for reasons other than contraindications or other medical exclusions such as allergies to vaccine components are really just choosing to play Russian roulette with a 50 chamber revolver — and risking the lives of those who can't vaccinate by projecting the virus for longer durations of time and occupying ventilators, ECMOs, hospital beds, and pricey monoclonal antibodies.