> I prefer lifestyle subcultures centred around music taste.

Class is going to dominate culture until the politics improves. I don’t really see any way around this.

There are indeed valid concerns about vaccinations, but I'm not convinced that vast majority of anti-vaxxers made any effort to represent that stance with an good faith. Hell, they politicized wearing a mask during a pandemic, which ordinarily would be considered the most harmless and least controversial thing to do during a pandemic.

Ye I think a big problem might be that those who raises concerns about a specific vaccin might be tauted as "anti-vaxxers". Like, how crack pots and tin foil hats have been used to discredit proper regime critics.

"Well, yes, Alex Jones also says PFASs are bad. Cooking in ... no I don't watch his show ... what? No, I have no prescriptions" etc. (I don't know if he said Telfon pots were bad before it was generally known to be true but lets pretend he did).

The mask thing was a great messup. Going from "it does nothing" to "you must wear them" is not very pedagogical.

> which ordinarily would be considered the most harmless and least controversial thing to do during a pandemic.

Except it wasn't, that was a brand new thing that came out of nowhere in 2020.