It seems clear to me that the real motivating factor behind the anti-mask and anti-vaccine movements is simply the anti-Joe movement. Since Joe Biden is advocating both vaccines and mask mandates, especially in schools, the Repugs simply cannot say "yes, Joe, that seems like a sensible idea". They have to contort their "logic" to claim any kind of political foothold against a real science-based common sense approach to stop the spread of the virus. As LOTB keeps telling everyone, it isn't the deaths that are the real problem, it is the Spread of the virus. The more it can thrive, the more chance it can mutate into something worse.