It seems to me at the bottom of it is faith. You either trust the science and numbers, believing they've been accurately compiled and that there's no unseen asp

It seems to me at the bottom of it is faith. You either trust the science and numbers, believing they've been accurately compiled and that there's no unseen aspects (like "no long term effects", what if our current methods can't see everything?); or you're skeptical - Is it reasonable to be skeptical without grounds? But you can read all the anti-vax blogs and find out about botched vaccinations (not COVID). And when you start with a basis, you end up with evidence bias, ignoring things that disprove your beliefs ("I bet you they botched that study!"), and accepting (with delight and little scrutiny) things that prove your position to be right. Of course there are morons who said e.g. "all the vaxed will drop dead ny April 2022".. I wonder if the passage of time have humbled them.. some may even thing somebody's hiding all the dead bodies (which isn't that baseless because as far as I know China did that)