In many cases, not all, I think it's an undefined sense of grievance that has been building for years. A group of people who struggle for respect - often victims of bizarre anti-science and anti-critical-thinking educational systems. They are a group ripe for manipulation. Having a conspiracy to share gives them a purpose, an importance, they can feel that they belong in their own dangerous bubble.

Unscrupulous politicians, media magnates etc have been encouraging this for years - an uneducated population is easier to control, to manipulate.

The irony is that at this stage, it would be unethical to approve any new study that required a large group to be deliberately unvaccinated - vaccines (tested on millions) have been shown to work - but this group insist on being the lab rats to provide all the data for how much worse covid is for the unvaccinated.

It's scary and it's very sad. Thanks for the article.