Noam Chomsky pointed that out as early as a year ago [0], but most people who really should hear it just don't want to it seems, content with shaking their heads and othering.
Unlike most of my vaccine enthusiast friends, I don't blame people that want to avoid it, I get the sentiment.
I'm not thrilled at the idea of getting the shot despite being a strong vaccine proponent, but I have made the appointment. Maybe it will turn out to be the wrong decision, however I took it with the best of my knowledge and abilities. And that's all what we can do.
You would be really surprised at how much of one's knowledge sits on assumptions and believes that are not well founded. It is like how grownups are sometimes stumped by the questions of a curious kid, which make it clear that somethings they thought they knew, wasn't so.
This was my experience, and like most people, I used to trust authorities and scientists, and "studies". This is the position where we all start, and diverge from it as we become more aware about the politics involved and how the incentives are aligned, how powerful media, how research is funded and can be flawed, how peer review "appear to work" when in-fact it does not in practice etc, all of which are further confirmed by historical observations.
I would not, I am perfectly aware of it, just like I'm aware I'm not able to go through walls.
And now what ? Knowing it doesn't change the fact I have to go through the door anyway.
The best we can do is all we can do, there is nothing else, your point is kinda moot.
Despite going to get vaccinated, I don't think it's an unfair line of reasoning.
> The blood of these refugees had tested positive for HIV, and Camp Bulkeley, where they were detained, was set up as what Michael Ratner calls “the world’s first and only detention camp for refugees with HIV.” Subsequently, the women in that facility who were found to be HIV positive were subjected to forced permanent or semipermanent sterilization.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-wome...
The COVID crisis is as much a trust crisis than a health crisis. The internet made the people deeply aware of how little the people in power actually cares about the average citizen or customer, and now that we really, really need the mass to have confidence in the institutions, it's getting hard to play the "for real, we are good this times guys" card.