America’s Great Vaccine Decline

Clearly, as stated in the article, people respond to their individual perceived risk for taking or not taking the vaccine (and their perceptions are linked to the groups they identify with).

I really wish articles like this would discuss statistics from elsewhere in the world. Are right-leaning individuals more likely to avoid the vaccine because of things that Trump said? Or is it part of being right-winged (perhaps a distrust for government and a disposition to see conspiracies everywhere, much as the left seems predisposed to see -isms as the cause of most problems). If we compared people not under the US influence -- perhaps from non-English speaking parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa -- we might be able to tease this apart better.

I also think the efforts to combat misinformation are sorely backfiring. It is so frustrating that communication on the big tech platforms is being censored; nothing helps science flourish better than by shutting up the people you disagree with, right?

Darwin is ever ready to cull the herd. If people are ready to believe internet quackery - so be it, let them bear the risk. I have argued with a few of these fools, but they have closed minds. I sympathise with those that die or are permanently damaged, and I will always vaccinate myself as recommended by my Md.