[nvelty]

Honestly just more transparency regarding them would be fine. Stigma and insults aren't very convincing, especially when the target has a strong community for support. Things like the refusal to shut down travel with China and the about-face on masks early on in the pandemic eroded a lot of people's trust in government. Politicizing the issue didn't help either. I recall reading a report during the early days of the pandemic where the volunteer being interviewed said they had much better receptivity to masks in conservative populations than others. This stopped about the time masks become mandated. Many members of my home community were also early adopters of the vaccine - their support dried up immediately following the series of mandates, with some of them participating in anti-mandate protests. At this point, further stigmatization of unvaxxed will only create more of a bunker mindset. Perhaps it's best for the future of the country we just accept a 100% acceptance rate is not going to happen.

[skinnymuch]

Bringing up an interesting point. Not refuting anything you said :).

Conservatives in some countries like Germany, Scotland are the ones who want everyone to get vaccinated while the [harder?] left want vaccines to be a choice, etc.

This follows along my own hard left politics. Vaccination should be a choice.

However the hypocrisy or lack of self awareness of liberals and of the right has made all of this stuff so politicized and vitriolic now.

IE I would have an easier time taking the rights anti mask anti authority stuff seriously if pushing for Govt to stop abortions and CRT learning weren’t massively popular policies. So it’s not about principles then.

For liberals, the amount of authority seeking is problematic and goes against the apparent principles of caring about the disenfranchised and bullying authority.