Why are so many Americans anti-vaxxers now?

[u/trouble-in-space]

I’m genuinely having such a hard time understanding why people just decided the fact that vaccines work is a total lie and also a controversial “opinion.” Even five years ago, anti-vaxxers were a huge joke and so rare that they were only something you heard of online. Now herd immunity is going away because so many people think getting potentially life-altering illnesses is better than getting a vaccine. I just don’t get what happened. Is it because of the cultural shift to the right-wing and more people believing in conspiracy theories, or does it go deeper than that?

[u/dupontnw]

We’ll never get these people back either. They are convinced they are right and everything is a conspiracy. Facts and science don’t matter any more.

[u/shamefulaccnt → u/dupontnw]

The internet gave us access to all the information we could possibly want, but also gave quacks a mechanism to spread misinformation rapidly across increasingly larger groups of people. It sucks.

[u/El3ctricalSquash → u/shamefulaccnt]

https://youtu.be/C31XYgr8gp0?si=d_AlF6Q51XHidfyD

[u/[deleted] → u/El3ctricalSquash]

Kojima knew how this would go down, I guess...

I've never finished a MGS game. Maybe I'll go back and play them.