I see the prevalence of antivaxxers from two angles: the failure of public education and the reasonableness of medical skepticism. Understanding the differences between efficacy and effectiveness, infection and transmission, and cases and infections requires solid understanding of biological and statistical concepts that are not even covered in most high school biology and maths courses. And I haven’t even mentioned the basics of the immune system, germ theory, or the difference between a bacterium and a virus, or RNA and DNA. Most anti vaxxers seize upon the half truths cited here because they don’t even have half comprehension of the terms in use. Don’t blame them; blame your local school. Second, skepticism of institutional medical claims is perfectly reasonable. The Faucis of the world are the same types who told you that OxyContin is not addictive, that your child needs Ritalin, that your hysterical wife needs a lobotomy, that your unborn child needs thalidomide, and that it’s totally reasonable to purposefully infect African Americans with syphilis. The Faucis are ultimately responsible for this outbreak as it was their job to stop it in the first place; the Faucis of the world love mask mandates and lockdowns because it flips the narrative of responsibility from them (Fauci has had his job for almost 40 years; Trump was an intern by comparison) to us: cases are rising not because every epidemiologist knew they would rise but because YOU failed to wear a mask and had the audacity to go to your mother’s funeral in person. The vaccines are free, highly effective against serious disease of all variants, and universally available. Why are we saying anything but that, and why are any more restrictions needed given those facts?