Vaccination privileges in our lifes, yes they matter

Vaccinated people have privileges these days and it will not be over soon…

4 min readDec 2, 2021

Time for a research on the meaning of the word, so consciousness in the world debate expands once again.

What is privilege and can it harm our society or is it a common good?

The idea of “privilege” — that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory — has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel superior to poor blacks; during the civil-rights era, activists talked about “white-skin privilege.”

Privilege is invisible to those who possess it and ever-present for those who don’t.

A simple definition, that’s for sure

Privilege describes benefits that belong to people because they fit into a specific social group or have certain dimensions to their identity. You can have (or lack) privilege because of your race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion, wealth, and class, among many other characteristics.

And what about your privilege(s)?

It is hard to acknowledge your own privilege(s).

Some people are against talking about privilege because they don’t want to be framed as the aggressors or complicit in a system that gives them an advantage at the expense of others. Other critics of the word ‘privilege’ mistake it for a blanket term that suggests that, if you have a privilege, your whole life has been easy.

Ultimately, privilege is not a concept designed to make people feel guilty or to diminish their achievements. Instead, waking up to how you may have certain privileges is an essential first step towards being able to decisively act, in small and large ways, to use your privilege and make the systems we were born into fairer.

And now I create with no doubt the ‘vaccination privilege’

In many countries, vaccination privilege benefits vaccinated people at the expense of people who aren’t. Lacking vaccination privilege can include being directly typecast or treated differently but it can also mean not seeing yourself catered for by the society you live in. While the existence of vacciniation privilege is ever-present and noticeable to those who don’t possess it, vaccinated people may not notice their advantages.

Vaccination privilege is a complex concept because it looks very different for everyone. While to some people it means being able to afford visiting restaurants, to others it means being able to afford a holiday abroad or simply to be on a Christmas party soon. Having vaccination privilege doesn’t necessarily mean being better than others but it can mean having enough resources to be able to take on the opportunities that life has given you, such as being welcome in society or even better job offers.

At the end?

Most of us are privileged in at least one way. That doesn’t mean we didn’t work hard or that we didn’t experience any other hardships in life. Privilege can be hard to admit and even harder to talk about but it is important to understand our own privilege so we can give a voice to those less privileged.

I’d like to take contact with Plato (as I like to do in my previous articles) and his opinion about privileges, look what I have found:

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

That makes you wonder, isn’t it?