Bumping this because as I feared, reports are coming that the crank machine currently entrenched in the Republican party is succeeding in turning the vaccination issue into a political one, just like others where science was supposed to guide us.
@Jackmannii , you were correct that among politicians the Republican leaders were more likely to have antivax views, but I still do not see that Democrats are following that death wish, and now most of the rank and file Republicans are the ones being affected by the propaganda as I feared.
But the party split was notable: Eighty-eight percent of Democrats said they planned to get vaccinated, compared to 57% of unaffiliated voters and just 29% of Republicans who were polled.
Rural voters (23% yes) and Trump voters (24% yes) said they were much less likely to get vaccinated in comparison to suburban women (61% yes) and four-year college voters (68% yes).
This is more deadly than swallowing the manufactured conspiracy that the last election was rigged.