Will Carless
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And you have people, you do have people who are impacted by vaccines.
Brandy may be one of them.
And so those stories are able to influence a lot of people.
Now, let's be very clear.
The vast number of people who take vaccines have no problem whatsoever, right?
But as one of our experts says,
The problem with vaccines is that the good that they do is invisible to society.
It's always there.
You don't see that people aren't getting measles because they're not getting measles.
What you do see is if one in a million people has an allergic reaction to a vaccine, then that's a very tangible thing that people can grab hold of.
Basically, the complication with covering this world is that there is a kernel of truth to what they're saying, and that there are certain people out there who are manipulating and using that kernel of truth to cast doubt on medical science in general, to cast doubt on vaccines.
And of course, that, according to the experts, is very, very dangerous for society.
I don't have any data for you, but I think it's very clear that on the grassroots level, I mean, this is a big movement.
These are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who are watching these videos on Instagram, who are watching these TikToks, who are reading these posts on Facebook, who are deeply, deeply involved in this movement.
I think anybody listening to this will know somebody who believes these things.
who is in this movement in some way, shape or form.
Now, they're not all calling themselves crunchy.
They're not all getting out there and kind of preaching this and posting themselves.
But a lot of people out there have this kind of skepticism.
And so I'd say it's a very significant movement and kind of in keeping with