Given the lack of rigor of many studies bantered about, the commercial incentives of the pharmaceutical industry, filtering and censorship of information from i

Given the lack of rigor of many studies bantered about, the commercial incentives of the pharmaceutical industry, filtering and censorship of information from inconvenient sources, questionable methods of tallying Covid deaths, and politicization of Covid policy, why are you so surprised that people would over-value their anecdotal experiences? Perhaps they are being perfectly rational?