I think @BiggusDickus was talking about the “don’t go outside or people will die” and “if you hug granny she’ll die” advertising, and similar nonsense. This was perhaps unique to the UK because we had the world’s best team of propaganda experts pushing all the right buttons. They were subsequently hired out to other countries (their “Mindspace” brainwashing manual was the basis for the COVID response across much of the West, which is why they appeared to be acting in concert), and of course Comrade Susan Mitchie now has a cushy job at the WHO’s fledgling nudge unit, thanks to her sterling efforts messing with the minds of the British public.
The point of the thread is not the existence of vaccines or whether they work, but the disgusting behaviour associated with the collapse of social cohesion, which in turn was a consequence of government messaging based on lies or half-truths. The development and use of vaccines would have been unproblematic if medical ethics had not (as BD pointed out above) been thrown out the window and replaced with coercion, threats, gaslighting, and insults. Much of it was unlawful (and has been declared so in a few countries by the courts) and nearly all of it was immoral (particularly with reference to the Nuremberg Code). And this should lead to a public apology.