I think the autism thing had a lot to do with it. I remember Don Imus pumping that theory a lot on his radio shows. I also think we are victims of our own success. I have heard a couple of families who are anti-vax talk about how their kids never got the vaccine, and they didn't get sick. They don't seem to understand that the reason their kids did not get sick is because everyone else DID get the vaccine. Lastly, I believe general distrust in government has a lot to do with it as well. I think in large measure this started with Vietnam and Watergate, accelerated during Reagan and Bush, and Trump really fanned the flames with all the Deep State talk. I myself am very distrustful of government, but the whole vaccine process was really a product of the private sector, with heavy investment from the government. It's a shame, really, that one of the greatest advances in the history medicine is viewed with such skepticism. Here we all are, so tired of masks and other restrictions after 1 year. Imagine life during the Spanish Flu era, when there were no vaccines, and you lived like this, in fear of getting the disease, for 3 or 4 years until it burned out?
