# Why do conservatives take some diseases seriously, but not others?

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**Created:** [July 21, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-conservatives-take-some-diseases-seriously-but-not-others/947012 "2021-07-21T22:48:24Z")\
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> [@Voyager](#):
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> Mostly from the view of the right, I think.

Unfortunately I think it influences the left in turn, to believe that if the right support something then it must be wrong.

> [@Voyager](#):
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> His last post said that if Trump had won in 2020 I’d be then against Covid vaccinations because he would supposedly be for them. (And he is for them, just not very loudly.) I told him no, I’d do what the science says, and was for vaccines when Trump was in office.

So… is he against Covid vaccinations, and did he say he’d be for them if Trump had won in 2020?

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