Calling others a "domestic terrorist" is clearly as wrong as it is foolish and childish.
I suspect a lot of the shouting like that is being driven by lurid, anonymous anti-medical campaigns who exploit people who understandably fear potentially disabling or fatal diseases; but who also do not comprehend "risk" and "hazard" (not synonyms!), nor even the most basic, barely-mathematical statistical principles.
However the last point may also be muddled by something I learnt only this morning - different countries collect their health statistics in different ways. Their methods and mathematics may be exemplary but their sample sizes are limited and poorly combined with others. That can skew the results enough to mislead, so encourage propagandist "cherry-picking" by the fearful and the exploitative fear-mongers alike.
Professor Jim Al-Kalili's guest on The Life Scientific this morning was one Britain's leading epidemiologists, Porf. Cathie Sudlow. She gave the example of the blood-clots that were a side-effect of the Oxford Astra-Zeneca Covid vaccine, but not of other makes - finding these cases were mainly among younger people and extremely rare.
I'd known the difference between hazard and risk, and that though the hazard of bad side-effects of any vaccine exists, the risk is extremely low so cases extremely rare; but Prof. Sudlow also explained what I'd not known. This is that the UK has a huge advantage respected internationally over many nations, including the USA, in that the NHS means we can study such problems at national level, with tens of millions of people. Many other countries have very good statisticians using the latest computers etc. but often only at local level so with low sample numbers and limited national co-operation.
So if a particular region seems to have a high level of unwanted side-effects from one particular medication, it may look quite incorrectly that that medication is specifically more dangerous than it is, if it is not examined properly at national rather than local level. Many millions rather a few tens or even hundreds of thousands, people; so flattening the regional differences and bringing out the real physiology and medication.
