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.
No. Chance they never did, not sure if we'll ever know for sure given how hard many problems with the data there are.