It's fine to question research, seek out opposing viewpoints, test alternative theories, the reason it's dumb to carry on with this w/ vaccines is you have ongoing realtime evidence from literally billions of people all over the entire world and it all keeps saying the same thing
https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1488166640596525062
On the one hand, you have more than 10 billion doses distributed in a short period and public and private sources from a wide array of countries with divergent interests and cultures everywhere putting out research and data. On the other, you heard from a guy.
In order to pretend THIS much evidence isn't true, you don't need to just find alternate evidence, you need to create an entire conspiracy worldview and build a cult around it to maintain it. Which is exactly what's happening.
Maybe someday something changes with the virus and we need to update our views. But that's exactly what happened with omicron. Faced with a new situation, countries did what they're supposed to: Gathered more data, tested how they responded, published the results, updated priors.
We have very tough debates on public health measures because the data is often more ambiguous, takes longer to test, and has cost/benefit tradeoffs that run into multiple areas of expertise and require public buy-in. But the vaccines are not that, it's unambiguous.
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