The Covid Vaccine Situation for the Fall Is a Complete Mess
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Also remember that the politicization of masking took a while to spin up, and didn't fuse with and evolve into the current antivax movement until later, when the vaccine was actually in sight. It wasn't a bipartisan wonderland or anything but early covid days was an extremely different political environment from now.