The intersection between anti-vaccines and xenophobia

A Texas child has died from complications from measles. It is the first death attributed to this disease since anti-vaccine activists, with their tenacity, managed to reverse its eradication. I stumbled upon the media Natural News and its headline: "Mainstream Media Lies to Your Face About the Boy Who Died from Measles." The pseudo-news report claims that the poor, unvaccinated boy died of pneumonia for which the right antibiotic wasn't found in time. But diverting attention from measles is a clumsy trap: he contracted pneumonia as a result of the infectious virus. It would be like denying the existence of cancer by saying that death is actually caused by vital organ failure (and, therefore, that chemotherapy and other treatments are absurd). In any case, what strikes me is how this page coexists with articles about pseudoscience alongside openly xenophobic pieces and others glorifying the entire Trump-MAGA paradigm.

Obviously, not all anti-vaxxers are far-right, nor are all far-right anti-vaccines, but the intersection is significant. I suppose there's something that unites these two seemingly unrelated phenomena: contempt for the common good and a certain vindication in the name of a misunderstood notion of freedom that, all too often, means imposing one's positions through the force of hatred. And, above all, what truly defines the neo-fascism that permeates us is the firm will to destroy the very idea of a shared common truth, whether that vaccines work or that immigrants should have the same rights as natives. To destroy the social fabric, it's first necessary to isolate the elements. Prevent their connection. Under the cry "They're indoctrinating you," they create new communication systems rotten with hatred.