> One of the tragic aspects of this epidemic is there are literally no authorities we can trust <
Truer words were never spoken. There are good folks on both sides of the vaccination argument. But there are also liars and frauds on both sides. These liars and frauds muddy the waters.
And that’s something most people just don’t get. The pro-vaxxers can’t see that there are pro-vax liars. And the anti-vaxxers can’t see that there are anti-vax liars.
You are either supposed to believe the latest conspiracy theory - such as, the vaccines have aluminum-based microbes that will kill you when “they” give the signal, or else you are supposed to worship the ever-changing words from St. Fauci. Most of us just want to manage risk in the best way we think we have found, whether it involves a vaccine or not.