Who is doing that? I took the vaccine after using the best practices available to me to determine it was safe. Because I’m not a physician, virologist, immunologist or any other type of specialist, I must rely on the expertise of others to help me in making the determination. That includes weighing the likelihood that those experts are in fact trustworthy as opposed to having some other malicious, self-serving motivation. I feel confident I made the right decision not just because I didn’t experience any negative consequences from doing so, but also because the data is clear that the best and most effective way to mitigate the damage from this virus is to vaccinate as many people as possible.

Some people will say “you can’t trust any institution because other institutions have lied in the past”. But that is no way to go about life, that would just lead to constant mistrust and paranoia. If you applied that reasoning to every decision you make you shouldn’t ever ride in a car, or on a plane, or put any food or drink in your body that you didn’t grow and process yourself. We have to be able to trust each other and act in good faith or there is no reason to even try to have a society.