It is called developing critical thinking. The truly insightful people in the world have both intelligence and critical thinking. If you are sufficiently intell

It is called developing critical thinking. The truly insightful people in the world have both intelligence and critical thinking. If you are sufficiently intelligent and have honed a practice of critical thinking "misinformation" just becomes another data set to weigh while making decisions. You should not expect anybody to tell you the full truth about anything. Rather you should investigate various sides of issues that are relevant to you and come up with your own decisions. My decisions regarding COVID after observing the disease and the reaction to it: I have decided, based in part on close contact with people who actually got the disease, that for most people the threat of COVID has been overhyped. Unless you are diabetic, overweight or come from an ethnic group predisposed toward diabetes or obesity or have other serious health conditions effecting cardio-vascular-pulmonary or metabolic systems or serious issues like cancer or extreme old age or HIV covid probably will not kill you or even seriously disable you. You could get unlucky but it does not make sense to live life in fear. With regard to vaccines they have also been widely tested in the population and adverse effects are rare. I chose to get the one shot J&J vaccine because it was based off a more proven traditional approach rather than the unproven mRNA approach and was logistically simpler. It really baffles me why the one shot vaccines have not been more widely promoted. Yes there was the very rare incidence of blood clots in younger women. If you are not a young woman or on birth control you do not need to consider that risk. I personally think the J&J vaccine is the least risk and best tolerated. I felt flu like symptoms for about 24 hours after the vaccine starting 8 hours after I got the shot but other than that I have experienced no side effects. Sure beats getting sick for 3-4 weeks. So I am not too worried about the vaccine and not too worried about covid either. I think it is bizarre how over-hyped so many people's anxiety over both covid and the vaccines has been. It makes no sense to live your life in fear. It does make sense to take reasonable precautions. Everybody dies of something one day or another. This is a basic fact of life. I personally would avoid the mRNA based vaccines because they lack an established track record and are unnecessarily complicated and I have anecdotally heard the second shot typically has worse side effects esp. in younger people for the mRNA vaxes.