You’re struggling to understand where all this vaccine hesitancy comes from. Let me help you.
Imagine your shock when Brexit, which you were assured couldn't happen because it was a fringe movement led by racists for racists, happens.
"Oh well," you say, "These things happen." Imagine that soon after Brexit, Donald Trump is running for president.
Imagine waking up the morning after the election to discover that the pollsters, experts, and politicians you still trusted were wrong again.
Imagine your shock when you discover that Brexit had little to do with foreign meddling, and Robert Mueller has very little to report about Trump and the Russians.
Imagine your horror as a famous and beloved gay African American actor is assaulted by MAGA hat-wearing thugs who racially abuse him and put a noose around his neck.
Imagine your outrage as you see news reports of a bunch of MAGA hat-wearing kids from a religious school contemptuously confront a Native American elder.
Were you always just blind? Imagine that soon after the Jussie Smollett story turns out to be an attention-seeking hoax: He made it all up.
Imagine watching as Trump doubles down on his racism by claiming the virus may have come from a lab in Wuhan.
Imagine your confusion as the same people who spent three months telling you not only that masks don't work, but that there are several reasons you shouldn't wear or purchase them, suddenly introduce mask mandates.
Imagine your horror as you watch an officer of the law kneel on another man's neck until he passes out and later dies.
Imagine your horror as you learn that the reason thousands of people died in the first wave of the pandemic was that elderly patients with COVID were allowed, and sometimes compelled, to be released back into nursing homes.
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