This week I made a Covid reporting site for all the regions in Bulgaria and started mentioning it in local Facebook groups.

It's staggering the number of expats here posting about Bill Gates, globalists, and a terrorist conspiracy to take over the planet by pretending Covid is a danger when it's not.

I don't think it's fear of needles or any logical aversion to something scary.

It's people who base their core beliefs on no evidence or tertiary sources, and therefore no evidence can be used to convince them otherwise.

I knew people like this are out there, but this has been like a gut punch.

Polio is available as an oral vaccine that used to be widespread in the west. I still remember demanding a sugarcube with every oral medication after getting one for the polio vaccination :)

That doesn't seem to stop anti-vaxxers: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-04/anti-v...

The oral polio vaccine is a live vaccine. It is much more effective than the injected dead vaccine we now get in the west but it does occasionally cause polio outbreaks...

You would think your logic makes sense in an anti-vaxxer, but there's many components to their ideology. I believe they are suspicious to anything that's mandatory. I presume this nasal vaccine will be mandatory (at least here in Chile government already determined when the vaccine arrives it will be obligation in risk groups) and would conform to their worldview of evil globalists killing the population for their kids to inherit an empty world.