All I gather from the constant anti-vax sentiment is that the disinformation campaigns worked beautifully.
Every other medicine on the market has crazy side effects, including death, and people willfully take them all with no fucks given. And most of those medicines are for conditions that aren’t even remotely terminal.
But the vax, which is made to combat a potentially terminal disease, is vilified.
There is absolutely something to be said about the lack of transparency on the side effects and even on the pressure campaigns to get people vaxxed, but with something so novel it’s impossible to know every possible outcome. It’s a risk/benefit decision and if you look at what’s happening in China it obviously worked in the US.