Also, there's a distinction you're overlooking. Not trusting big pharma isn't the same thing as not trusting medicine. Big pharma will happily sell us drugs that work - it's the most profitable thing they do. You just can't trust them blindly, which is why regulation is important.
In the case of vaccines, they've proven effective over a very long time and the arguments against them are suspect at best. Questioning a new vaccine is healthy suspicion, questioning vaccines as a class of drugs requires a heavy burden of proof.
But of course, mRNA vaccines were being developed long before COVID, so I assume you raised you concerns at that time, and not in the middle of an emergency when nobody has time to explain to every third dumbass that we're going for the lesser harm here - meaning "not dead right now".
It's a good thing I'm not dictator, 'cause I'd have every news anchor and talking head that spread confusion during that time lined up against the wall and shot.