Opinion | Threatening the poor with punitive measures is no way to go about removing vaccine hesitancyMy mother-in-law is 80 and refuses to be vaccinated. The zeal to spread good health notwithstanding, there is an obvious classist and exclusionary underpinning to these conversations that’s hard to miss. So now it appears that they are busy anointing the very act of being vaccinated as the new Calvin Klein. Sundar and Chidambaram’s suggestion is meant to counter vaccine hesitancy, but threatening citizens is no way to go about this. Where the writer tries to make sense of society with seven hundred words and a bit of snark.

Source: The Hindu May 28, 2021 07:38 UTC