Right. Even knowing the facts it's hard to not buy into the hype to some degree. In the end, the only things I personally care about regarding the benefits of

Right. Even knowing the facts it's hard to not buy into the hype to some degree. In the end, the only things I personally care about regarding the benefits of any vaccine are: 1) not having some horrible/painful/debilitating long term condition from getting sick 2) not dying 3) not spreading it to others Even if the marketing said it would only prevent severe disease but you'd still catch it just as easily, I'd have still have been among the first to show up for the shot. Promising it as some panacea is going to leave people disappointed. I can't grasp what mix of societal factors is causing the lack of will to be vaccinated. The two best cases for widespread support of vaccines that I can think of are Smallpox and Polio. Smallpox was a worldwide effort to eradicate a disease that had been a scourge on society for a thousand years. The wealthy countries of the world sent doctors to every corner of the Earth to vaccinate people to ensure its eradication. "Normal" smallpox killed 1 in 3, the rarer hemorrhagic form killed >90% of those infected. The survivors also faced a lifetime of hardship from damage it inflicted. Polio had a fatality rate of 2-5% in children and 15-30% in teens and adults. Of all the cases, 1 in 200 had permanent paralysis. I just don't get it. No one is dying horribly of measles, mumps, rubella, typhus, diphtheria, polio, smallpox, etc. because of vaccines and antibiotics. It's almost like COVID's lethality is at a magic point where most people are extremely concerned about it, but it's low enough where doubt persists because people aren't keeling over in the streets.