… Vaccine mandates have many features that make them a good issue to motivate conservative voters. It invokes a fight about the government regulation and personal liberty. But add in the apocalyptic views of anti-vaccine activists and the political power of arguments against vaccine mandates gets punched up to a whole new level. …
It’s the synergy between real politics and imagined dangers that is bringing the pro-Trump movement and anti-vaccine activists together. But the result of this union increasingly appears to be an even higher death toll from COVID-19, in part because it’s causing many people to resist getting the shot. CONTINUED
Geoff Brumfiel, NPR News
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