The issue for me is that comment starts with a lie, the initial clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines were designed to measure efficacy against symptomatic disease, not transmission prevention. Health officials and scientists generally communicated that while vaccines showed strong protection against severe illness that wasn't the scientific consensus. Therefore I never took the vaccine thinking I would never catch COVID, I took the vaccine with the understanding that it would better protect me from the worst outcomes. A lot of people seem to like hearing an "alternative view" because that often suits their own worldview...which is sometimes, the vaccines are a form of population control by the rich elite, or something like that.
So to your point, they absolutely are suggesting we should ignore experts by buying into nonsense and using false claims to question the science behind vaccines and medical trials.
“Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials but it’s also in real world data.”
Or on May 16, 2021 when Anthony Fauci said:
“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community… In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere.”
Or on July 21st 2021 when Joe Biden said:
“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
Tell me, exactly what was I supposed to take away from that messaging, if indeed I’m apparently lying?
I suppose Rachel Maddow didn’t say the following on March 29th 2021, while her show was routinely hosting government officials and health experts to talk about COVID:
“Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people.”
Imagine if Pfizer’s CEO tweeted the following on April 1st 2021:
“Excited to share that updated analysis from our Phase 3 study with BioNTech also showed that our COVID-19 vaccine was 100% effective in preventing #COVID19 cases in South Africa. 100%!”
I must have quite the active imagination to hallucinate these things and arrive at a bizarre conclusion that differs so much from what you recall.
The reason you're not dead from Ebola spreading is because scientists know that Ivermectin doesn't work for Ebola, for example.
We're not ready for the next pandemic, we're in a way way worse position and let's say it was an even more serious virus, we're sure as shit not just going to podcast our way out of it next time.
I might find the whole “scientists know better than you or I do” drivel cute if I wasn’t one myself, or if I didn’t witness my peers repeatedly exaggerating or downright lying because they thought it was for the greater good.
Grow up.