Antivaxxers and #COVID19 deniers/conspiracy theorists share this trait: They are unrelentingly hostile to the idea that they have any personal responsibility whatsoever for public health. They thus vehemently oppose public health mandates. 1/https://twitter.com/RMCarpiano/status/1275521530626277376 …
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They also share an quasi-religious belief in their own health, depicting themselves that their own personal “health rectitude” (e.g., living a “healthy” lifestyle) protects them against infectious disease in a way that the rest of us are not protected. 3/
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To boil it down, both either reject or don’t care about the concepts that public health affects them significantly and that their actions impact public health. 4/
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This combination of beliefs explains why antivaxxers and
#COVID19 conspiracy theorists/deniers are so opposed to even benign public health interventions, such as mandates to wear masks and why antivaxxers are so opposed to school vaccine mandates. 5/5Show this thread
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