So the anti-vaxxers have more of a hold on people's minds than I would think. Odd stuff. Apparently that Karen-Scream (I've seen this in leftist circles, and it's not a good look, apparently it's all in on the right too) has managed to even get the lyme disease vac shut down. Now that's dumb af. That being said, the FDA not giving the vax a go ahead seems dumb. 

That being said, it appears the most vulnerable are Vaxxed and so the deaths won't be so bad this time around. 🤞

And that's not to say the only factor right now is right wing crazies not willing to be vaxxed no matter what (though polls seem to indicate that). Reaching working class people who haven't had time to get a vax seems to be an issue (and even for me it was a non-trivial issue trying to get 2 shots). Don't see a block to block van for Vaxxes when there should be. 

Another thing is mistrust of those in power. 

IOW the same set of so called experts who said in 2008 that we just had to save Wall Street (then go quiet on saving Americans themselves) may, to the lay person, sound like the same people yapping about vaxxes. Or a host of other things. So it's easy enough to mistrust. 

At the same time, we have rising inequality and that tends to obscure things (see the above screenshot) while increasing mistrust in general. Why trust those in charge who have ruined things? 

Over at Twitter you get the hate directed at Fox, and yeah, sure, that has some effect, no doubt (also FB), but I'm sensing there's more to it than that. As always, Fox would easily lose their audience if they didn't play to this. 

And twitter, with it's call and response tribalism, nvm it's complete lack of nuance, likes to grip into an idea and scream with it. If you even try to add a little nuance, you're on the other side. But it still drives the narrative elsewhere and that seems to be it. Fox News the only cause of anti-vax behavior. 

And the same goes for the analysis of Trump. Whatever he is (And if you've read me you know I think him useless), he doesn't have complete control of the GOP. they usually fall in line with him when they think he's found a good new tactic for something they wanted to do all along (tax cuts, voter suppression etc). Meanwhile, when he gets out of pocket, the powers that be pull away (infrastructure etc) and he is enough of a coward to back off. 

Bringing it back to the vax, that means that Trump getting it didn't move the needle much. No one attacks that aspect of him being the guy who saw the parade of fools and jumped in front of it to grift. 

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