Just a thought -Are vaccine deniers against other measures ensuring public health like clean drinking water, effective sewage and controlling pests like rats?
There's a big crossover between anti-vaxx and the 'wellness' industry. Just 12 people are responsible for the bulk of vaccine misinformation including aresholes who money out of alternative health nonsense. The Centre for Countering Digital Hate identified them in this report:
https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc0553604720b7137f8663366ee5.pdfMercola makes millions out of the gullible selling alternative remedies and supplements.
Robert F Kennedy Jr runs an organisation with the misleading name 'Children's Health Defence' which promotes a range of anti-vaccination nonsense.
Ty & Charlene Bollinger make money by selling books and DVDs about vaccines and COVID
Sherri Tenpenny is an osteopath (osteopathy is a bullshit treatment masquerading as medical science) who promotes lies and has live streamed with Andrew Wakefield.
Rizza Islam promoted the story about the vaccine making women infertile last June. he also promoted the idea that COVID can be treated with a non-dairy diet and spices.
Rashid Buttar ia another osteopath and conspiracy theorist promoting infertility scare stories.
Erin Elizabeth is Mercola's wife. She runs healthnutnews (sounds fun!) which sells a vast raange of bullshit 'alternative' products and also spreads mis-information about COVID, vaccines along with disgusting anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
Sayer Ji - another alternative health guru. He runs GreenMedInfo.com which sounds healthy and 'natural' but pushes vaccine disinformation and scare stories.
Kelly Brogan, Sayer Ji's partner. A practioner of 'holistic psychiatry' who sells books and videos on her website. She adds the letters MD after her name despite having no medical qualifications. She's linked to Paltrow's Goop and alos claimed there's no such thing as disease and that AIDS was actually caused by the medicine meant to treat it.
Christiane Northrup trained in obstetrics and gynaecology but embraced alternative medicine. She promotes HCQ and Ivermectin among the usual anti-vax garbage.
Ben Tapper a Chiropracter (Chiropracty is a bullshit treatment similar to osteopathy) who pushes the idea that the immune system is all we need. He claims that "there is a total lack of evidence that viruses can live outside the body..."
Kevin Jenkins. Anti-vaxxer who claims vaccines are "a conspiracy to wipe out black people".
The prevalence of alternative health gurus in the spreading of anti-vaccination stories is not a coincidence. Right-wing libertarianism is the other strong thread running through it. In other times these people would have stayed in the background in niche magazines and bookstores. Facebook, Twitter and other social media with their "if you like this you might also like this" algorithms have allowed the garbage put out by these nutters to spread like wildfire.
PIlates, veganism, a few turmeric tablets, dietary supplements, fasting... it's the appeal to nature vs 'big pharma' debate and it opens the door to the cranks.