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Yes, it's much higher than 1%.
It's worth pointing out that nearly all the anti-vaxxers were far left until Covid.
Near Seattle, there is a place called Vashon Island which has long been famous for its loony leftists. Until recently, they had one of the worst childhood vaccinations rates in the country. About 20% of children weren't vaccinated.
Of course, when Covid came around, they immediately pivoted to pro-vax and are lining up to get boosters at rates far above the national and state average: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-anti-vax-rate-in-v-w87v8jS0S26qIiStqdWwUw
I don't think that's true.
It's true that being categorically anti-vax was extremely rare to the point of being unheard of among normie republicans, but the Alex Jones crowd had conspiracy theories out the wazoo about vaccines and it was common to object to the HPV vaccine. Yes, my filter bubble is less likely to vaccinate their kids against MMR, but the fringes already didn't trust vaccines. It's probably more accurate to say that antivaxxers were mostly far left; the far right getting majorly into alt medicine and opposition to vaccines was not my top prediction five years ago, but it's not a surprise at all. Normie republicans listening to the far right post covid, on the other hand...
Isn't this more of a 'why should my son take a shot so your daughter can (slightly) lessen the risk of her slutting around' thing than a true concern about vax safety?
Opposite valence- the culture war objection was ‘why are you assuming my daughter is a whore?’.
I mean, yes, but the fact that vaccine safety was brought up as a serious objection to it indicates that anti-vax sentiment on the right isn’t entirely foreign.
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That was a big part of it, but maybe another part was it seems like it requires a few doses and lots of people are afraid of needles and want to minimize the number to just the bare essentials (an underappreciated element of vaccine opposition). I was too old by the time it became common, so HPV was never folded into my normal course of vaccination. I'm fairly pro-vaccine, so if I thought my monogamous self would benefit from it I would have consented. But then it became, "well, now I have to talk to my doctor about my lack of sexual partners, do I really want to have this conversation to get a shot that's not even marketed for my protection?"
Really, the fact that the HPV vaccine is marketed as protection from promiscuous sex is a bad, bad strategy because it pushes culture war buttons. But maybe that's the only reason at all it has any value. Does the HPV vaccine provide any protection against the many other kinds of HPV infections people can be exposed to, like warts on various parts of the body and things like that?
No. The line is that it protects against the 2-3 most dangerous ones in terms of causing cancer, but I'm not entirely sure how true that is.
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