Originally, anti-vaccine hysteria was a religious thing--using vaccines prevented people from getting sick, and thus went against God's plan for those people. (God's plan, presumably, being for large numbers of people to die painful deaths from disease.)
The modern anti-vaccine movement, however, is a leftist thing that bloomed in the 1960s, along with the "health-food" movement and other "alternative" medicine fads. It is sad to see so many so-called conservatives fall for it.
“Originally, anti-vaccine hysteria was a religious thing—using vaccines prevented people from getting sick, and thus went against God’s plan...”
I don’t remember that.
“Originally, anti-vaccine hysteria was a religious thing—using vaccines prevented people from getting sick, and thus went against God’s plan for those people. (God’s plan, presumably, being for large numbers of people to die painful deaths from disease.)”
Never heard that in my life. I could see that they wouldn’t want to get vaccinated because that may mean they didn’t trust God. But to cull a population? I really don’t think so.