What about the sudden shift by the WHO about the time the vaccines were widely rolling out and Biden was inaugurated to reduce the cycles in the PCR tests from 45 to 30? That most definitely reduced the number of cases. My bet it was more impactful than the vaccines.A lot of people have been vaccinated now. Seems to me, this gives rise to quite a lot of evidence that wasn't available several months ago. So people who had views based on concerns about vaccine safety six or so months ago, can now revise their views based on current data.
Amongst the current empirical evidence seems to be that there have been a small number of serious adverse events after vaccinations, and at the same time, the death rate from COVID-19 has gone down very significantly in those countries where a large portion of the population have taken advantage of access to vaccines.
If some people see this as evidence to support vaccination being a reasonable choice, I don't think they should be called crazy, or hoodwinked, or uninformed, etc - that would be rude. However you personally assess the available evidence, and your personal feelings about vaccination in general or about these specific vaccines, it is a reasonable response to the available evidence to consider getting vaccinated.
Is your point that if intelligent people are mostly doing it, it would be smart to follow the less intelligent ones who are doing the opposite? Interesting version of anti-intellectualism.
I'm in favour of supporting people to have good health status, so as to be more resilient wrt all sorts of hazards.
More than 0.1% of the US population has died of COVID-19 in the last year or so, and I assume that not everyone has yet been exposed.
Not all of them thought they were vulnerable due to compromised health status.
I am in favour of addressing other serious health issues too. However, it is deflection to use them as a reason to not address COVID-19.
There are people vulnerable to baseless conspiracy theories and immune to evidence on both 'left' and 'right'. Funny that you lump together the 'CIA propaganda' and 'left-wing b.s.', as though they would be aligned.
It is not helpful to treat obesity as an individual choice-based condition. There is plenty of evidence that there are multiple factors contributing to health status, and not all of them are straightforwardly under personal control. People don't generally make a deliberate choice to have poor vit-D status, either.