Covid. Covid response was partisanized very quickly. Some people will say this was because of overly aggressive regulation from blue states, though I don't thi

Covid. Covid response was partisanized very quickly. Some people will say this was because of overly aggressive regulation from blue states, though I don't think it would have been different even if the response was significantly more tepid. By the time the vaccine was available, we'd had a year of people screaming that Fauci was a satanist and that we just needed to accept deaths in order to keep the economy moving. The pump was primed for the vaccine to be made into an extreme partisan issue. Trump's rhetoric didn't help things. This very naturally spread outwards, latching on to pre-existing antivaxx sentiment derived from Wakefield's criminal paper. Once you are deciding that one vaccine is actually a mind control serum, it isn't a terribly large jump to decide that they are all lowering sperm counts or whatever.