155: We Want Them Infected (w/Jonathan Howard, M.D.)
Conspirituality
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The Impact of the Pandemic on Public Health
As we started to see the light at the end of the tunnel with vaccines becoming widely available, these anti-vax adjacent libertarian contrarians were really coming to the fore. The most egregious kind of iteration of this was the insistence on comparing vaccine mandates and quarantine measures to Nazi policies. And in fact, if you just visited some less privileged countries where they don't have the infrastructure to do the kind of vaccination we do here, you'd see some pretty shocking things. So this sort of thing has gone on for as long as vaccines have been around, obviously, comparisons to Nazis only began after Nazis came around.
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