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> Why is discussion or criticism of a current practice (giving young kids a third mRNA dose) considered a "talking point of the right"? The right wing in Ameri
by javagram 5y ago
> Why is discussion or criticism of a current practice (giving young kids a third mRNA dose) considered a "talking point of the right"?
The right wing in America generally supports Trump, who initially called covid a minor cold in February 2020. Ever since then there’s been a strong faction of the right that argues that taking measures to prevent covid is wrong, whether that be masks, vaccines, or anything else. Implicitly this is because if fighting covid is good, downplaying covid in February 2020 was wrong. (This persists even now that Trump has claimed the vaccine as his achievement).
> How much peer-reviewed research about booster shot efficacy has come to light? We were told that a third shot is ineffective against the Omicron variant, and also told that the Omicron variant's symptoms are very cold-like and that it's not really killing people
FWIW, research is and has been showing the opposite - that booster shots generate antibodies which can neutralize the Omicron variant, and that Omicron is killing people despite initial claims - mostly from the right wing, anti-covid mitigation crowd - last year that it was “mild”.