Vaxxophobia
The irrational fear of the COVID-19 vaccine.
An extraordinary percentage of the American population was infected, if not yet with Covid, then with vaxxophobia. Sitting glassy-eyed and slack-jawed in front of their TVs, an American vaxxophobe listened to paid performers on Fox and Newsmax, all of whom had been quietly vaccinated, tell them that Covid was nothing but a liberal hoax, that the vaccine would allow the illegitimate Democratic government to take their freedoms and to monitor their location at every moment. If they didn't believe it, they could look it up on their smartphones.