According to Clott, both sides acted solely out of FEAR, not out of knowledge, because "nobody knew anything." And if you chose not to get the jab you just simply guessed right.

Nope. Those of us paying attention KNEW the vaccine originated from the Wuhan Institute of Technology, not the fish market. It's a bioweapon, intentionally derived from a remote bat colony. The novel fact that this was among the first RNA virus's known to man, and the fact that within months a new mRNA vaccine happened to be developed by multiple competitors, none of who advertised, and we went from "I hope this works" to "I demand you take this" within months .... was a warning that anyone with a glimmer of intelligence, could not overlook.