> I think the worldwide disruption of the pandemic melted people's brains, and the recent surge in the anti-vax movement is a symptom. Anti-vax thinking was ar

> I think the worldwide disruption of the pandemic melted people's brains, and the recent surge in the anti-vax movement is a symptom. Anti-vax thinking was around pre-pandemic. An article from 2018: * https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6122668/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6122668/ and 2015: * https://www.bbc.com/news/health-33774181 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-33774181 2020+ was mostly about anti-vax 'contrarian' thinking merging with anti(-Democrat)-government thinking. Before vaccines were created, Democrat and GOD death rates from COVID were about the same, but after they became available GOP rates became higher: * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486680/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486680/ * https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/study-finds-large-gap-in-excess-deaths-along-partisan-lines-after-covid-19-vaccines-introduced/ https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/study-finds-large-gap-in-...