As #CovidVaccines roll out, there are reports of bad things after vaccination. As predicted, antivaxxers are weaponizing these anecdotes to undermine confidence in #CovidVaccine. They're even blaming #HankAaron's death on a #COVID-19 vaccine.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/01/25/antivaxxers-efforts-to-undermine-confidence-in-covid-19-vaccines-continue-apace/ …
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Replying to @PumpknSpiceSoul @gorskon
the move of antivaxx rhetoric more strongly to the right instead of being balanced left-right is def'ly notable my father was telling me today that his GP may be antivax, which he found surprising given the doc's left politics — reminded him that *used* to be an unsurprising mix
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Replying to @undafiend @PumpknSpiceSoul
This movement to the right of the antivaccine movement started about a decade ago but was really turbocharged in 2015 when California passed
#SB277, the law eliminating personal belief exemptions to school vaccine mandates.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
During their protests against
#SB277, antivaxxers discovered how effective appealing to "personal freedom" and "parental rights" and against "government overreach" was to right wingers. These became antivaccine dogwhistles and a gateway to lure right wingers to antivaccine views.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Basically, a lot of right wingers, even if they weren't antivaccine originally, were attracted to antivaxxers' arguments appealing to "freedom" and "parental rights," and attacking "big government overreach." Once attracted, they were fed a steady diet of antivax disinformation
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