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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This may have been true before COVID but since 2021, partisanship has become a better predictor of anti-vaxx beliefs than race. www.brookings.edu/articles/for...

@eridowd.bsky.social@eridowd.bsky.social

It would be good to see your data on this; while the specific conspiracy theories behind vaccine skepticism are different in minority communities, there are definitely community -specific reasons to be skeptical of the medical establishment, that lead some people to be against vaccines

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

COVID significantly shifted the dynamics of medical misinformation. Minorities and woo woo anti-vaxx types signed on to COVID shots while rank-and-file republicans explicitly rejected them. Both groups have now backfilled their beliefs about other vaccines and public health authorities.

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kaitlynhalfpint.bsky.social @kaitlynhalfpint.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My MIL backfilled her vaccine beliefs in the best way! After seeing how Covid vaccines made things so much safer not just for her but for people around her, she started getting her flu shots annually. Before that, she skipped visiting our January baby vs getting one.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This isn't to say minority or crunchy hippie anti-vaxxers don't exist anymore, but there isn't a sprawling, well-funded media apparatus fueling their conspiratorial beliefs the way there is for MAHA.

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