What motivates anti-vaxxers?

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An active desire to harm people

Rank stupidity

Easily led by bad people

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I recently had to block a user on here for spreading harmful disinformation on Covid-19 vaccinations - they claimed that "more people are killed by the vaccine than by guns".

This claim is patently false and easily refuted by looking at the extensive scientific literature on the topic (a sample of which is available here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html).

Which got me thinking: what motivates people to spread this nonsense?

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YourMomsSecretCrush · M

I am not an anti vaxxer, but, I do understand people who do not trust the government or the pharmaceutical industry due to their shady track record. In North Carolina, one of the counties with the highest unvaccinated rate is Robeson county, which is primarily Native American. One can definitely understand their hesitation to believe the government in regards to anything they say.

Snuffy1957 · 61-69, M

@YourMomsSecretCrush
Exactly

ElwoodBlues · M

@YourMomsSecretCrush Yes, let's talk about counties. These graphs below summarize county results after 2021. As you may know, death certificates are filled out by county and city medical examiners; death cert summaries are posted on county websites. States and the feds also accumulate and post the stats, but it's hard to lie about deaths in a county when the county has already posted its results.

As you can see, the counties with lower vaccination rates also experienced higher death rates - overall death rates; not just Covid death rates. Also, the counties with lower vaccination rates tended to lean more heavily towards Trump in their 2020 voting. These are the facts.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Snuffy1957 i second that

YourMomsSecretCrush · M

@ElwoodBlues yeah I wouldn’t doubt your statistics. But, the people I am speaking of….. the Native Americans……. They may not be privy to your statistics. All they know is how the government has lied to them in the past, so they have problems trusting the government now. Either party. And I really can’t blame them.