The Atlantic reported that, vaccine hesitancy is actually COVID-19 denialism. As older adults are getting vaccinated, they are no longer being hospitalized. Instead younger adults are being hospitalized and dying.
Young conservatives are now denying that the virus is real and they don’t want the shot to save themselves or their loved ones.
According to Kaiser Family Foundation polling, 13 percent of Americans say they definitely won’t get a COVID-19 vaccine. Hesitancy is particularly high among people who live in rural areas and white evangelicals—for whom increased church attendance correlates with increased hesitancy, according to a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute.
Some Americans believe that not getting vaccinated is a defense of their freedom. The same demographic are less likely to wear masks so they can spread the virus more efficiently. One young republican troll explained his stance simply, “I dislike the people who want me to take it, and it makes them mad when they hear about my refusal.”
The QAnon theory offers the simple minded some straight forward though strange theories, that , American elites, are a cabal of sex-trafficking pedophiles, and they are trying to take over the government. Republican Matt Gaetz seems a perfect target for this sex trafficking QAnon theory but I haven’t heard of them being upset by his possible sex with a minor. They seem more upset that he is being investigated. Gaetz has had COVID-19.
Beautiful, intelligent and patriotic Americans are getting vaccinated and the trolls will keep spreading the virus among themselves.