Stratification of society.
Not only Czech society is divided. Splitting and layering is common in other countries and entities. The reasons why this is so are all sorts of. Sometimes it is religion, sometimes poverty versus wealth. Sorting by skin color, origin, age, occupation, gender, weight, height, and quite commonly by political views is also common. Right now, the division of society into vaccinated and unvaccinated is in full swing. We have slowly become accustomed to the fact that every major event results in a certain level of diversification of citizens into opposing groups. Adherents and Detractors. Healthy and Sick. Exit versus Remain. Coexistence or Independence. Modernity versus Sputnik V. And so on. All of these stand side by side, simultaneously opposed to each other, modeling disparate social strata.There is seemingly no historical parallel for viewing vaccinated citizens through the lens of elitism, but appearances can be deceiving. Polio has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and it was not until the middle of the last century that a vaccine was found that gradually eradicated it. In what was then socialist Czechoslovakia, polio vaccination was compulsory, and so there was no divisiveness or division in society. Later, poliomyelitis vaccination became part of the so-called hexavaccine, which worked against several communicable diseases at once. The policy of compulsory vaccination had virtually no visible opponents and brought Czechoslovakia a polio-free effect. Cases of allergic reactions to the vaccine, including several deaths, have occurred in the past, but the positive effect of vaccination is considered undeniable and statistically proven.
Coronavirus vaccination is both voluntary and free in the Czech Republic. It is therefore possible to make a "free" choice. Circumstances and upcoming restrictions make this decision somewhat more difficult. The direct confrontation between public health and a functioning economy poses major challenges. One of the unresolved ones is the coexistence of the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. On the one hand, the vaccinated partly solve the problem of an easy and rapid return to the normal lifestyle to which we have become accustomed; on the other hand, they are passive co-creators of barriers for the unvaccinated. All this can be solved by patience and tolerance shown by all concerned. In this solution, a divided society acts as a brake, a complicator and a retarder. Whatever we think of the speed, quality, system and manner of the chosen solution, heads up, the restart and the election are in sight.