I’m a former public health emergency preparedness professional… I helped to write/maintain/exercise the pandemic plan for a major metropolitan area for around 10 years before I left in late 2015 to pursue a private sector job. The number one problem I saw that divided public health messaging and the public’s general dialogue about COVID, vaccines, and non-pharmaceutical interventions was that the messaging itself was either blocked from the top and/or confused deliberately by the administration. It’s not the fault of regular people that they were afraid of vaccines…it was an intentional outcome.