CV and mad panic behaviour

[PaulP]

It's of course not correct to treat the MAGA crowd as one undifferentiated lump, but I'd guess for many of that crowd, especially the males (and probably young males) the no needle / no vax thing is an identity marker more than anything. Their rhetoric, which features a lot of talk about toughness, hype masculinity, not taking cr@p from anyone etc., would be exposed as hollow posturing if they were scared of a needle.