Some of us were suspicious all along. Especially of Pfizer.
But such suspicions became socially dangerous right around the time that Pfizer stood to make multiple billions selling a novel treatment for a recent pandemic.
(Pfizer testing drugs on Nigerian children) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1471980/
(Pfizer pleads guilty to criminal charges over Neurontin) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC416587/
Let's be honest about this: the reasons people were skeptical of COVID-19 vaccines had nothing to do with the actual corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, and everything to do with the corruption stories told by people who profit when more people die.
I found a dirty nurse, he was willing to miss my arm and accidentally vaccinate the sink, for a short stack of benjamins.