By Bobby Miller
Wednesday, October 05, 2022
Marin County, a bedroom community of America’s most poorly run city, was once a bastion of
vaccine-hesitancy paranoia. Fever dreams about corporate schemes,
immunization-induced autism, and the ills of Western medicine were pervasive
among residents of the affluent progressive enclave just a few years ago. Now,
the county has one of the highest Covid-vaccination rates in the nation.
How did this happen? The answer shouldn’t surprise
anyone. As the New York Times put it:
And as the nation has grown more
polarized, Marin residents are less comfortable wearing the “anti-vax” label
increasingly associated with conservatives.
Putting aside the lunacy of choosing whether or not to
inject something into your body based on fear of being mistaken for a member of
the wrong political tribe, a unique product of our hyperpartisan reality, this trend should concern
everyone on the right. Some conservatives now champion a cause once confined to
west-coast elites and considered a fringe, left-wing phenomenon subject
to mockery and derision.
The efficacy of the Covid shot has been thoroughly vindicated. Study after study has proven it is the most effective way to prevent serious
complications from the virus. The jab is ultimately what ended the pandemic and the disastrous, draconian mitigation measures that came with it. The
victims of vaccine trutherism have primarily been people on the right who have bought
into this ludicrous conspiracy theory at their own peril.
Anti-vaccine conservatives did the Left a favor by taking
up the mantle. They are wrong to have done so.
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