I think it is possible for both sides to be largely wrong. I don’t think it is possible for both sides to be largely correct.
Most data is cr@p. I think the U.K. stuff may be decent.
At least some people get some definite short and medium term benefits from the vaccine. If one is some combination of past one’s third score and/or past one’s 6th to 9th stone (depending on height) one probably ought to consider the short and medium term benefits. Not being dead is a benefit, but the older you are, the more that is a short or medium term benefit, and not a long-term one.
The long term benefits and long term risks are unknown, the short and medium term risks are hard to gauge.
With the unknown (bad information, or people in authority or that one has contact with opting to act on what one perceives as bad information) fear naturally kicks in.
Times are hard But at least it isn’t actually the bubonic plague.
“At least some people get some definite short and medium term benefits from the vaccine.”
A reward that let’s them travel, See mom and pop in the old age home, able to participate in highschool and sports. Not wear a mask, go to a concert or take a cruise. Yep pretty a “short and medium” term reward.
They might even get to work.
So by all means let’s mandate these shots with so many unknowns.