I don’t know, sometimes the though of “what if all my leftist ideas are false? What if trans people are just mentally ill? What if gay people are just deviants?”
I honestly really don’t like it…
It’s good to question your beliefs I guess, it’s how you grow, but it sometimes makes me really uncomfortable. Why does this happen? Can I stop it? Should I?
It depends what which country you live in.
On Lemmy, most of us live in Western Democracies, where you sort of can trust government agencies that checks their safety.
But in other countries, their public health department doesn’t actually do a good job of checking if something is acually safe.
Some Black people were skeptical of thw Covid vaccines because they remembered this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study happening to them.
Just imagine a developing country where either they aren’t democratic or has a very flawed democracy that’s even worse than thr US, with corruption everywhere.
Like, say for example, the US replace the FDA with all trump lackeys and started approving medicine/vaccines that are dangerous.
I’d honestly look at what the doctors and experts in Blue States have to say about it, the US federal government is no longer trustworthy.
TLDR: If you live in actual democracy, sure, the vaccines are probably safe. But for those in authoritarian regimes or backsliding democracies, its kinda harder to trust the government.