But the fact that we have zero long-term data and that even without the corruption going on there is a non-zero chance that it could wipe out all of humanity.
It doesn't matter how infinitesimally small that probability is.
That is simply not a gamble worth taking, no matter how high the risk of a real pandemic would be.
Freedoms can be restored, at a price. Humanity can not if 100% of the population got vaccinated and it then turned out as terminal.
When did COVID-19 become known to the Western public? Jan 2020 or so?
When did the vaccine rollouts in those same Western countries begin? Around Dec 2020.
You're telling me that they went from initial design to full-on production in less than 12 months? There's no cheating time. There's simply no way they could've done any long-term testing on this.