The anti-vaccine movement (or, as it really should be known, the pro-Covid movement ) appears to be getting increasingly nasty and violent. Worse yet, the same groups of people, specifically the Proud Boys, a right-wing group who fueled the violence in D.C., are now turning their attentions towards undermining any effort to mitigate people’s risks of getting sick.
Publication: Salon
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