"Today, these crunchy anti-vaxxers are coalescing into a loose political group that is targeting COVID health measures and restrictions as indicative of governmental overreach and medical tyranny. They’re also, predictably, falling down far-right rabbit holes.
"Enid Futterman, a local journalist and Bernie Sanders supporter...told me she finds the idea that COVID is caused by 5G cellphone towers more believable than person-to-person transmission. “I’ve read both sides, and that’s what makes sense,” Futterman said.”
"I’ve cut off contact with several other people from the area, with whom I once spoke at least semi-regularly, because of their views on vaccines. Other people I grew up with have drifted to the far-right, with anti-vax rhetoric a common thread to their ravings."
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