[T.B. Yoits]

If someone with glassy eyes and infected needle tracks up both arms told you the shot was safe, you'd dismiss them.

If a convicted drug dealer, from behind prison bars, told you the shot was safe, you'd dismiss them.

If a five-year-old told you the shot was safe, you'd dismiss them.

What some people haven't figured out is that when the propagandist or government employee on the television tells you the shot is safe, you'd be well served to dismiss them too.

[Elsie]

I am starting to detect a common thread:

...the propagandist or government employee on the television...