Tiffany Dover is ready to exit the shadows The conspiracy caucus’ legacy may linger long enough to bite us the next time a nasty virus appears. Brandy Zadrozny interviews Tiffany Dover, a Tennessee nurse unwillingly placed by anti-vaxxers at the center of their conspiracy theories (NBC News): I’d been following Tiffany since that day, Dec. 17, 2020. Like thousands of others, I first saw her on a livestream during the national rollout of Covid vaccines to front-line workers, where Tiffany became one of the first people in the U.S. to get a shot. I was also watching when she fainted immediately after, launching a wave of misinformation and conspiracy theories that would eventually unravel her life. The modern anti-vaccine movement was powered by unverified stories of the dead and damaged. Tiffany wasn’t the first person to be swallowed up in an anti-vaccine propaganda campaign, and she wouldn’t be the last. The unsettling thing about it — to me and the more well-meaning conspiracy theorists who took up an interest in Tiffany’s case — was that she seemed to just disappear. Imaginations ran wild. Rumors of her death shambled along like zombies. Pursuers made her life and her childrens’ hell. She never posted a video otherwise addressed the rumors. She’s refused to talk until now and only to Zadrozny. Soon after receiving her vaccine at CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga, reporters eagerly questioned her about getting the shot. “I’m sorry,” she said, and fainted. Dover recovered quickly and went back to work.…