There was, at the same time, the “Idol” and the “flag” of the Cypriot vaccinators who, for many months, since last fall, “drank water” in his name. But for a few days now, the medical examiner Marios Matsakis officially crossed to the opposite bank, as she was vaccinated with the first dose of her vaccine Pfizer.
Due to this fact but also to the fact that Mr. Matsakis hurried a few days ago to throw back the stern and, in fact, to take back everything he had supported during the previous 12 months, I have been breathing in the ranks of the vaccination deniers for a few days now. Cyprus, with some of whom have… become dangerously fierce.
It all started when the Cypriot medical examiner, former MP and MEP spoke to the television network AlphaNewsLive and mentioned his intention to be finally vaccinated, as, as he said, “All his doubts about the use of mRNA vaccines had been dispelled.”
What was that to say? What was it like to admit that, as a human being and a scientist, he too might have been wrong? No one is infallible and sinless, after all.
Mr. Matsakis went so far as to claim that he was receiving threats to his own life. And all this why? Because he decided to get vaccinated against coronavirus.
“From the day I announced that I was going to get the vaccine, a war started, a storm of messages, some of which were vulgar insults and threats. I got to the point where I went to the Police and made a complaint“, The medical examiner told the media of Cyprus, adding emphatically that” the threats were launched both through social media and on my mobile phone “, and noting that… he does not sweat his ear from them, for, as he said,” very small a minority of people who do not change their minds and I will not try to change their minds either. “
As It turned out, after all, with the first dose of the vaccine he received on Wednesday.
Because he changed his mind
Regarding his own view of the coronavirus vaccine, which changed in relation to such weather last year, the medical examiner argued that he was now convinced that “You are less likely to die from the side effects of an mRNA vaccine than you are to die in a car accident”, while rejecting all conspiracies for the pandemic and the dangers of vaccines.
Specifically, in the post where he announced his decision to get the vaccine, Mr. Matsakis claimed that “It is true that in the past I had serious concerns about the coronavirus vaccines and I stated that I would not be vaccinated. This was the case months ago, when the scientific data and experience regarding vaccines was small to non-existent. At that time I was not convinced of their effectiveness and safety. And I stated it boldly. Now things have changed: Six billion vaccines have been given in all countries of the world and scientific data is now much more reliable. Also, international organizations, such as the US FDA, have now given final approval to the use of some mRNA vaccines. There have also been some dangerous coronavirus mutations that have made the virus more contagious and more aggressive even at a much younger age. So I decided that what I really needed to do was learn how to do it right. And to be vaccinated with one of the mRNA vaccines, that is, not with AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson, for which I still have my concerns “.
What he supported in 2020
In the recent past, the medical examiner had asked some questions about her vaccine safety and publicly expressed its reservations about their approval and licensing procedures, as well as for their own technology.
In November 2020, in a discussion on the show “Intersections in Events”, Mr. Matsakis had disagreed with the strict restrictive measures that were then used to deal with the pandemic, arguing that the emphasis should be on vulnerable groups, while he had considered as “It is inadmissible that some Cypriots were arrested and imprisoned”, on the occasion of their violation of the restrictive measures of the local lockdown imposed in Limassol and Paphos.
Finally, regarding the lockdown of the spring of 2020, he had expressed anger towards the Cypriot authorities, talking about a “severe flu”.
“Coronavirus is a seasonal virus. There is an upsurge in winter and a recession in summer. He arrived in Cyprus in the spring, when he was already in recession “, the medical examiner pointed out, concluding with meaning that “It is a myth that the lockdown we had in the spring allegedly succeeded [του 2020]».
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