“I don’t want to use inflated language,” she told Steve Bannon about health officials dropping basic vaccination information on people’s doorsteps. And then she went on, predicting, “They take your child away if you haven’t vaccinated him or her, like that’s the next step. Or they take you to a quarantine camp, if you can’t show your vaccination papers. I mean, that may sound a tiny bit … anxious or inflated…” It does sound that way. It always sounds that way. It is supposed to.

SEED: Potential essay on how exaggerated 'worst-case' rhetoric reveals underlying psychological drivers, a phenomenon visible across public-health debates.

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