Sutton comedy man won't let anti-vaxxers dampen his mood

It will hopefully mean that I can go to visit my father in the care home without having to shout through a window again and I can go back to travelling the UK to do stand-up.

When the pandemic is over I might keep the mask.

The UK is the first country to approve a vaccine, which led to MP Gavin Williamson saying that we’re better than other countries.

We may well be, but not because we’re good at paperwork.

Just because you do something fast doesn’t mean you’re the best.

A lot of people read his comments and felt sorry for Mrs Williamson.

Just when I was thinking that nothing could spoil the good vaccine news, along came the anti-vaxxers.

It’s a curious mindset.

I’m convinced that if the Titanic disaster was to happen now there’d be a group of people on the ship identifying as anti-life-boaters.

It is a mixture of issues that has caused such a large movement against vaccination.

Most of us haven’t lived in an era where we saw the effects of things like measles or small pox.

It’s the paradox of a good vaccination campaign – the better it works the less people will notice it.

From doing science at Sutton Centre to doing chemistry at university, I learned that science is pretty good – it’s invented pretty much everything.

The internet has made it possible for any idea to seem as valid as actual science.

I might start a conspiracy theory that the virus was created by Zanussi.

Why else would we have a vaccine that has to be stored at -70 deg C?

When so many scientists are saying that vaccines work but one scientist disagrees, the anti-vaxxers think that proves their point.

If I am on stage and no-one in the audience laughs at a joke apart from just one guy sat at the back, that doesn’t mean that guy is right.

The little pro-vaccine tweets I have recently made have attracted some angry replies.

I know I could stop posting such things but I think it’s better that anti-vaxxers get annoyed at little tweets from me so that they can build up a tolerance for when they meet me in real life.

If only there was a way of describing that principle.

Steve N Allen is a comedian and broadcaster who was raised in Sutton-in-Ashfield.