What began as “vaccine hesitancy” has morphed into outright vaccine hostility, as conservatives increasingly attack the White House’s coronavirus message, mischaracterize its vaccination campaign and, more and more, vow to skip the shots altogether. https://t.co/TDtk5UhrCt
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 15, 2021
Anti-vaxxers use centuries-old arguments rooted in anti-science suspicions and religious overtones, @JohnAvlon says.
— New Day (@NewDay) July 14, 2021
"Science constantly evolves. Superstitions strangely do not. Follow the facts and not your fears, because vaccines save lives." #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/VHwNKStfGY
.@brikeilarcnn and @JohnBerman on the spread of anti-vaccine rhetoric: History will show “how a large part of our country —misled by information often echoed by elected officials and right-wing media — was thrown a life raft, and instead said, ‘no, I’ll take my chances.’” pic.twitter.com/C1lL5NgPnm
— New Day (@NewDay) July 14, 2021
"A chunk of the vaccine resistance now, though, is coming from something closer to anti-vaccine militancy. It's a theme rapidly being absorbed into conservative politics — making it even harder for Biden, or perhaps anyone, to overcome." https://t.co/clI4BI6UFV
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 11, 2021
An Idaho chiropractor claimed that the Covid vaccines turned people into “modern-day zombies” who spewed spike proteins in every breath (they don’t), and that vaccinated people could disrupt the menstrual cycles of women around them (they can’t). https://t.co/chjdD4xqmD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 14, 2021
For months, state-level Republicans have been inviting anti-vaxxers to testify. https://t.co/G1GgHGYXDY
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 14, 2021
And GOP leaders have had little to say about allies in their midst spreading misinformation.
The result: What we're seeing in Tennessee.https://t.co/JK6WsWI2jN
Newsmax is anti- #COVID19 #vaccination & now ALL #vaccines .
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 14, 2021
"Maybe there's just an ebb & flow to life where something's supposed to wipe out a certain amt of people & that's just kind of the way evolution goes. Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that."https://t.co/AxWv3eQky6
NYT just realized Fox is anti-vaccine
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 12, 2021
boy, nothing gets by these guys; https://t.co/zF2tClQRC3
"It's horrifying," Dr. Fauci says, reacting to discussion of Covid-19 vaccine at CPAC. "They're cheering about someone saying that it's a good thing for people not to try and save their lives…just unpack that for a second. It's almost frightening." https://t.co/zXUjaIHMqm
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 12, 2021
Republicans are going to increasingly reconcile their bad faith attacks on the COVID vaccines by just going anti-vaxx in general https://t.co/fnP30GeeIu
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 13, 2021
Sad! 