Most people (me included) aren’t capable of parsing mRNA vaccine literature, and so can only rely on authorities. Unfortunately, the authorities spent last year canceling our jobs, weddings and funerals while insisting that murderous riots were a public health necessity.
https://twitter.com/lreyzin/status/1422251401254670339
Tribalism always emerges when institutional trust erodes. People might not be certain which side is telling them the truth, but they can certainly tell which side is actively wishing them harm.
The media & political authorities have so polluted the information environment that it is impossible for well-meaning people to tell up from down. Even “pro-science” people are just following a party line: They were vaccine skeptics less than a year ago. 
Societies will be governed either by tribes or institutions. The latter take generations to build, and no time at all to burn down. These people destroyed the credibility of institutions w/which they’d been entrusted, and now threaten us with force if we balk at their commands.
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