Polarization, Life and Death

For Thursday:  Karl book excerpt.

Natalie and Billy presentations.

COVID

Physical distancing

• Religion
• Resistance to distancing 
• Church closures (Newsom lost in court)
•     Small business
• Political campaigning

• Masking
• Trump's skepticism

Vaccination: 2023 polls

• Social media

Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2014

Russia has been pushing the vaccine-autism myth for years.  And now doing the same for COVID.

In 2020, COVID deaths were not partisan.  Once the vaccine became available, however, things changed:

Polarization is lethal:

Additional data on excess death rates

Trump could not turn off the antivax attitudes

Attitudes toward science

Broader vaccine attitudes

The connections of Christian nationalism, QAnon, antivax, and 1/6