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When you look at the variability in cases per year over the past 20 years, it's clear you can't tie this back to one person. He's a total idiot who is going to make things worse, for sure, but the anti-vaccination movement on both the left and right predates his involvement in politics by many years
Anti-vax on "the left"?
[X] to doubt.
The modern anti-vax movement started on the left. The first notable measles outbreak in modern US history was in Marin, California which is full of crunchy hippies. You just didn’t hear about it as much because the left shuns their idiots instead of platforming them like the right does.
Dude. The New Age crowd started all this, with their "all natural" remedies. California was at the center of the anti-vaccine movement prior to the right losing their mind about vaccines during Covid