I'm 60+ years old, retired, spent almost 20 years working at the health department in IT, so I'm not a medical professional but had to attend all the first responder trainings after 9/11. Being an IT type I'm curious about a lot of things and paid attention to my training no matter what it was. In the 2000's we had a couple of true pandemics that no one gave a shit about. We didn't even wear masks at the health department at the HIV clinic, a human pox we didn't have a handle on yet.
Fast forward to today. My wife of almost 40 years, who (I think) has been voting conservative all this time, is shrieking (not exaggerating) at me for refusing to get the "vaccine". And every other conservative I know has gotten in line to get it. The stupid part is, if YOU have been vaccinated, and you believe it's effective, then why the hell should you care if I've had the shot or not? I can't make her understand this.
I didn't see this kind of hysteria with HIV, and we thought that might kill us all. Something has gone terribly askew on the treadle.
I too am at a loss to understand this. Only a year ago if you tried to cox people to take an experimental 'vaccine' you would find few takers. Now people line up like it's Tylenol. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but IF the powers that be wanted to inject the population with a sterilization drug, I believe that they could do it within a few months. Just call it a vaccine against the newest virus. People are now programmed. I believe Jim Jones had his cult members practice 'drinking the Kool-aid' before they did it for real.
Every single "conservative" I know has either already gotten it or is going though the process, I'm the only holdout. They all look at me like I'm crazy, and many of them are supposed 2A types. It's the damndest thing I've ever seen.