He's right, but I don't see how it could have been avoided in our hyper-polarized politics right now. The way was paved pre-pandemic when antivaxxers managed to entice the right to ally itself with them to oppose school vaccine mandates.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1424377897872150530 …
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I think anti-vax movement was underestimated & we consigned them to simply mommy blogs, etc. Pre-Trump they targeted GOP to indoctrinate them into opposing vaccine requirements in schools. They had a plan & executed it. National health agencies didn’t have robust response.
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Out of curiosity, a while back I looked up the first time I ever wrote about the alliance between
@GOP and antivaxxers. It was around 10 years ago, when a California antivax group allied itself with the East Bay Area Tea Party around ten years ago.5 replies 5 retweets 28 likes -
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In 2009, I met this guy out in front of a CDC meeting on H1N1. He told me flat out he was a right-wing nut.https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/8/29/774141/-The-belly-of-the-anti-science-beast …
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There's long been a far right wing component to the antivaccine movement, but it's only been in the last 10-15 years that it's come to dominate the movement. As recently as 2008, antivaxxers were invoking left wing environmentalism with their "Green Our Vaccines" slogan.
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