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.