“The big takeaway from our research is that after the COVID-19 pandemic, not only are the left and right divided on COVID-19 health matters, they're also divided on trust in their own doctor and following their doctor’s advice about their health conditions,” O’Brian said. “This broader polarization about trust in medicine has trickled down to trust in your personal doctor to treat, in some cases, your chronic illnesses.”
The Republicans have always been people where if the facts align with their world view(they rarely do) then facts don't care about your feelings. For everything else it's use "common sense", "do your own research" which consists of fox or Facebook. Most notably see climate change and trickle down economics before covid.
It went from just trusting doctors to dems, “I know nothing about this field so I will lean on the experts to guide me,” and reps “I know nothing about this field therefore I trust no one”
There's been studies on the types of information that people trust segmented by political affiliation - the findings were that progressives were significantly more comfortable with uncertainty, complexity, fluid concepts, abstractions; conservatives preferred concretions, static and binary answers, simpler explanations.
Republicans hate anyone educated and mis-trust all knowledge. But they will gleefully follow someone that tells them to put a UV light up their butt and eat horse de-wormer.
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