You made 100% sense, they are just programmed to outright reject logic that doesnt conform to their views.

I held the full 75 page side effect list of the vaccines, to someone's face, and they refused to read it and told me they "hadn't read anything about it" and therefore refused to comment.

They will literally deny conflicting info, until they get their marching orders from the news or social media, or whatever.

Your logic is the same as the "despite being 13% of the population.." that people also refuse to listen to.