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Americans won't get vaccinated because there were no WMDs in Iraq. There's lots more examples like that, but that's a big one and is illustrative.
by api 5y ago
Americans won't get vaccinated because there were no WMDs in Iraq.
There's lots more examples like that, but that's a big one and is illustrative.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoAn entire generation has grown up since then. I think WMDs 17yr ago is a lot less less influential in terms of media distrust than a year ago when they were proclaiming there was no/negligible chance of a lab leak and then spent early 2021 trying to simultaneously walk that back with the weakest possible admission that mistakes were made and simultaneously making an equally strong claim that the vaccine is effective and safe. Frankly I'm surprised that the percentage of the population who isn't vaccinated is as low as it is.