Mach E Avelli,
The problem is the the tactics anti vaxxers use to trick people is they make their arguments just convincing enough to make people hesitant. If they out and out said “vaccines will make you grow a second head” most people would realise they are nuts.
What they do is dress up their arguments with what just appears to be enough credibility, by taking stats from official sources but using them out of context or not how the authors of the stats intended them to be used.
For instance the post I was replying to contained this statement:
None of these vaccines have been approved. All of them have been given emergency use authorisation.
Legal liability out the window. A formal approval typically requires long term safety data ie a late stage phase 3 dataset. 3 to 5 years.
Soundssort of official and like the poster knows what they’re talking about, right?
Wrong, it’s debunked nonsense:
Were COVID-19 vaccines rushed through approvals or given emergency use authorisations in Australia?
Unfortunately a lot of people can’t differentiate between the two, and even on this forum of supposedly professional pilots a lot of posters seem to regurgitate this stuff (assuming they are professional pilots).