#Treason doth sometimes prosper, even when we dare call it treason.

> Fewer Americans today consider childhood #vaccines important, with 40% saying it is extremely important for parents to have their children vaccinated, down from 58% in 2019 and 64% in 2001. There has been a similar decline in the combined "extremely" and "very important" percentage, which was 94% in 2001 but sits at 69% today.

> The declining belief in the importance of vaccines is essentially confined to #Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, as the views of #Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have changed little over the past 24 years. Twenty-six percent of Republicans and Republican leaners -- half as many as in 2019 -- believe it is extremely important for parents to get their children vaccinated. In the initial Gallup poll on vaccinations, Republicans and Republican leaners (62%) held similar views to Democrats and Democratic leaners (66%); the two groups now differ by 37 percentage points.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/648308/far-fewer-regard-childhood-vaccinations-important.aspx

I may, eventually, make my peace with much of the madness of the last thirty years. Honestly I don't expect it: I probably won't live long enough to see most of the damage undone. But it's at least *possible*. If the upcoming election and all the others go as well as they possibly can, if the Republican Party purges itself of the cult, if the cultists themselves come back to some semblance of reality ... yes. It could happen.

#Antivax, and those who enabled its rise from the grave, I will never forgive. Not now, not in a decade, not in a generation, not in a century or a millennium or the lifetime of the universe.