This may be very often true, but there must be also people who would be willing to listen were the conversation around it clearer. The toxic information environ

This may be very often true, but there must be also people who would be willing to listen were the conversation around it clearer. The toxic information environment has very likely tipped into confusion plenty of otherwise reasonable people. I know for sure of at least one close family member, who if there was no Facebook and real life people banging on doubt and sharing misleading information, they wouldn't be constantly dragged into that direction (yesterday she told me "see, I read on a mainstream local newspaper that one vaccinated person died from covid; those antivaxxers said that the vaccine didn't work, they don't seem to be totally off the mark"; it took 5 minutes to explain that when you say that the vaccine is N% effective it means that in 100-N cases it's not effective, so having some deaths is to be expected... she was easily convinced, once she has been walked through. But it requires constant effort; the asymmetry of this information warfare is so strong; it takes far less energy to seed doubt, you don't have to be factual or even logical; while if you want to debunk stuff you have to be careful otherwise your credibility is gone)