RolStoppable said:
COVID absolutely dominated the news cycle back then, so the topic of a vaccine got a lot of time on air when it was still in development. Scientists had already ruled out complete immunity through vaccination when they had run the first round of tests. Since the population was a lot more at home during COVID, it was really hard to miss information about COVID because the information got repeated ad nauseum on TV. Likewise, information on how vaccines work in general and for COVID specifically were omnipresent too. It was more challenging not to know than to know. But admittedly, the USA works differently. There's an entire fake news channel (FOX News) dedicated to feeding bullshit to people, like the stolen election of 2020 where the FOX News anchors were ultimately caught texting in private that they know that it's all bullshit, but they'd still repeat all the lies for the money. For us from the outside, FOX News looks kinda like a weird variant of The Daily Show with the difference that one is intended to be serious while the other is satire, yet both are full of laughs. |
FOX "News" is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who publishes most of Britain's right-wing red-top tabloids and owns the Australian version of Sky News (he was born in Australia, though he is now a naturalized American citizen.) They also turned the New York Post, one of the oldest and most respected newspapers in the US, into a clone of The Sun.
