Good explanation of the anti-vaxxers

Privileged, self-absorbed snowflakes engaged in conspiracy theories. From this FB post commenting on this NYT story:

In part this explains a sociological puzzle of the anti-vaxxers -- they are generally well-educated and prosperous, and in other ways not anti-science. What distinguishes them as a group (which of course does not hold for every i dividual) is privilege: the idea that they should alter their behavior for someone else's well-being, even the benefit of the entire society, feels to them like oppression (they can use that word, because never having experienced it or even acknowledging that other people routinely do, and to their benefit, it's mere empty rhetoric). They have not spent a lot of time seeing themselves as dependent, for their very existence, on the reasonableness and decency of others, individually or at large. They do not really grasp that millions DO live that way. They fiercely deny it.

“'One of the things that we’re finding is that the rhetoric is pretty similar between the anti-vaxxers and those demanding to reopen,' said Dr. Rupali J. Limaye, who studies behavior around vaccines at Johns Hopkins University. 'What we hear a lot of is "individual self management" — this idea that they should be in control of making decisions, that they can decide what science is correct and incorrect, and that they know what’s best for their child.'"