Long before Coronavirus became a pandemic, there was a small but fervent substrata of society that was decidedly anti-vaxx. They ranged from the mild ("too many vaccines at once for my kid") to the uninformed ("vaccines cause autism") to those pushing fake or discredited "studies" or alternate treatments. Once coronavirus hit and COVID-19 became a deadly plague upon the world, microbiologists and other scientists in the various disciplines related to creating vaccines quickly found a way to use mRNA as way to stimulate the immune system to create anti-bodies. It was rather fortunate that they had been studying this approach for 20 years already, so all they had to do was "plug in" the mRNA from the coronavirus, and begin testing and ramping up production.
For most of the world, this was a miracle come true. The peer-reviewed double-blind studies showed that the vaccine prevented infection most of the time, and prevented the worst symptoms over 90% of the time. That is an amazing success rate for vaccines.
The problem, as we all know, is that The Former Guy had already poisoned the well. He had initially told his cult followers that it wasn't a pandemic, it wasn't his fault, it wasn't as bad as all the medical professionals indicated, etc., etc., etc. He tried to sell them on untested and dangerous "treatments", and then when Pfizer came out with a vaccine (with no help from the government), he tried to take credit for it, while at the same time saying it didn't work and no one needed it.
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