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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Conservatives were okay with vaccine requirements for kids in school. Well there are the crazy nutjob fringe, but for the most parts everyone was onboard with vaccine requirements. Conservatives need something to glom onto since Trump was doing a piss poor job during COVID and chose vaccines.  COVID broke their brains.[/quote]
Can’t believe it took three pages to get to the real answer. This is it.

Conservatives oppose vaccine mandates because Donald Trump sought to downplay the risks of COVID in order to prevent the economy from tanking during an election year. He insisted that public health recommendations be ignored because people staying inside would hurt the market and make him look bad. This led to conservative opposition to mask mandates, insistence that ivermectin could cure COVID, etc. Opposition to the vaccines was simply an extension of their newfound fixation on defying public health officials.

Interestingly, if Trump had won, conservatives would likely have the highest vaccine uptake. Trump would’ve gone on a media spree and insisted that he personally created the vaccine and cured COVID. His thralls would be bending over backwards to get the jab.

tldr, it has nothing to do with fear of government overreach. The conservative antivax movement exists entirely because Donald Trump thought it was politically expedient to defy public health recommendations.[/quote]

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