Anti vaxxers believe illness is good for you, disease mitigations can harm you, and public health is a personal choice

Now, liberals and leftists do too

Excellent reporting by Julia Doubleday on how far right anti vaxx beliefs have been mainstreamed https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to

Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health

Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.

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@taylorlorenz this is all spot on, but I wish we would also talk about how many of us are also getting quite beyond simple peer pressured in order to keep jobs, volunteer gigs, see friends and family at all - I’ve been physically attacked for wearing a basic kn95 twice in the last few months in public places. I get notably excluded from professional opportunities if I do basic mitigations, like being unable to eat for 12 hours at a time. I think a lot of us care a lot - but it’s being made economically and socially untenable to be safe outside vaccination and private, personal activities like errands.
@hacks4pancakes @taylorlorenz OMG Lesley that’s horrific to be assaulted for trying to not catch a deadly disease. I’m so sorry that happened to you.