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It's interesting the narratives you hear with regards to antivaxxers. My sister is vegan and is in many vegan, all-natural, etc Facebook groups. She told me t
by annexrichmond 4y ago
It's interesting the narratives you hear with regards to antivaxxers.
My sister is vegan and is in many vegan, all-natural, etc Facebook groups. She told me there's a lot of overlap of people there and people who chose not take the COVID vaccine.
One of her best friends is a teacher in Canada from Trinidad; she grew up without vaccines and similarly never gave her child the COVID vaccine
These two examples just seemed very different than the typical "antivaxxer" I hear about. Although it still seems premature to call someone who only doesn't take the first mainstream mRNA vaccine an antivaxxer.
- ben_w 4y ago> Although it still seems premature to call someone who only doesn't take the first mainstream mRNA vaccine an antivaxxer. Non-mRNA COVID vaccines do exist.
- Izkata 4y agoSinovac (China) and Novavax (only just given EUA a few weeks ago) are AFAIK the only options if you want something more traditional. I think might have been one more, from India..? But J&J and AstraZeneca are adenovirus-vector, something almost as new as mRNA, and work by basically the same mechanism. Sputnik (Russia) is also adenovirus-vector.
- SanjayMehta 4y agoIndia: Covaxin is the traditional whole inactivated vaccine you're thinking of.
- detaro 4y agoAt least the former has been a common stereotype with other vaccines too. (and people I know who are into yoga have generally complained that there's a lot of influencers peddling various "natural" cures and conspiracy theories there)
- dahfizz 4y agoBefore covid, I think the "hippy dippy" vegan, naturepath, yogi stereotype was associated most strongly with anti vaxxers. Covid was politicized, and so it became a right wing stereotype to not want the vaccine. But specifically the covid vaccine. I don't think most right wing anti-covid-vaxxers are anti vax in general.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoCovid was hardly the start of the conservative antivax or alternative medicine movement. Naturalnews.com has been right-wing and antivax since 2008.
- tekknik 4y agoHow is this a rebuttal? A single site exists and this is evidence? The antivax movement started on the left. The right very much didn’t want the COVID vax specifically. Pointing out once site that disagrees is too easy.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoIt's one example. Nobody given any evidence that anti-vax had been a mostly left-wing thing before covid, so there's nothing for me to rebut. Other examples abound if you just look a little bit. Infowars has been running anti-MMR content for years. And for decades, polls have shown that anti-vax views are independent of the political spectrum. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-arent-new-to-the-anti-vaxx-movement/amp/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-arent-new-t...