Why people who don’t trust vaccines are embracing unproven drugs

Of the anti-covid-vaxxers who I know, the main point is "I resent being forced to do anything".

I can get that. I opted out of the x-ray scanners at the airport for years. I resented being "forced" into something that I found offensively intrusive into my privacy - of course, my Republican family members said "You're not being forced into anything, no one is holding a gun to your head. You could take the train if you really objected that much"*. But I opted out for years and took the plane. Now that they've improved the security of those machines, I begrudgingly go through them. But I get the sentiment; I took quiet solitude in my resistance to something that felt that it was being forced upon me. My grandparents refused* to wear seat belts their entire lives, because they refused to be forced to do so. Despite it being a good idea, and they acknowledged it was good, they still wouldn't do so because that would be complicity in the over-reach of the government.

Of the anti-covid-vaxxers I know, this is the main point. They're not taking alternative medicines, they're taking their chances. They're willing to die to prove a point - the point being that they can't be forced to take the vaccine. And if you ask me, it's a stupid point. Stupid point because you can only die to make a point once, and there are much more meaningful hills to die on.

Edit: Typos and added the story about seat belts.

I'm trying to find a way to say this and not be too negative about it, but I sincerely can't understand how people consume vox articles. It's some of the most partisan, corrupt, disgusting propaganda you could possibly consume. It's so tenuously connected to reality, so mischievous in their intents to force their partisan message on the reader, that I'm honestly seriously scared about the state of affairs that people base their worldviews off of articles like this, it's so worrying to me. And no, I don't read Fox News, it's just as bad. The difference being you'll never see a Fox News article posted here, yet articles like this are just casually posted as something real.

lol - the only thing unproven are that the patents for drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have expired and theres no money to be made. Isn't amazing big pharama has a new pill/non-vaccine treatment for COVID now? Funny that.

The gaslighting over any treatment other than the vax is beyond criminal at this point. Just watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM