Quote Originally Posted by Rixon75 View Post
It's way more complicated than equating every person that will not get the vaccine to flat-earthers. There's a real distrust in U.S. government, and for good reason. Additionally, if it wasn't for the FDA there wouldn't be a nationwide opiate epidemic, so let's not act like the scientists and doctors haven't chosen greed over integrity before. The government and its entities have their fair share of blame as to why so many aren't getting vaccinated.
There's a distrust in government because it is being actively sewn by political forces for purely political reasons. No, the FDA is not perfect but there are far more credible sources of information about the safety and efficacy of the vaccines than the FDA alone. There are people prone to believing demonstrably ridiculous conspiracy theories, and there are politicians who directly benefit from exploiting and preying on those people's fears and inclinations -- again, for purely political reasons.

This isn't that hard to understand if you would stop engaging in apologistic sophistry.