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The anti-vaccine crowd has evidently decided their persecution can only be expressed in Holocaust metaphors. At a rally in Texas yesterday anti-vax media personality Del Bigtree pinned a yellow star on himself mid-speech. 
Have also seen a handful of social media profiles that are yellow stars reading “anti vax.”
The Rockland, NY quarantine on unvaccinated minors to handle a measles outbreak is generating some very intense emotions on that side and conspiracy peddlers like the Health Ranger are swooping in
Some of the communities with low vax rates are Haredi Jews, which is creating some truly fucked up interactions, as the NYT wrote about. They probably don’t love the yellow star imagery though. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
The Auschwitz Memorial is truly not thrilled about any of this
As @gorskon points out, this isn't new: the anti-vax crowd returns to Holocaust metaphors repeatedly.
Dr. Bob Sears did it during the fight over SB 277, a full three years before he got in trouble granting questionable medical exemptions. I believe he remains on probation. forbes.com/sites/tarahael…
Important to note too that Bigtree et. al have worked very hard to feed the longstanding suspicions and fears of some black Americans towards the medical establishment. A few years ago, they began collaborating with the Nation of Islam to do just that: jezebel.com/the-anti-vacci…
