Can someone restate for us, perhaps again, the reason for these attempts to justify refusing vaccinations and to minimize the effects of the pandemic, and to cast doubt on the efficacy of the vaccines and the other efforts to mitigate the effects of the disease? Why is that being done?
Vaccines are indeed mandated for many many things in our country. Presumably those mandates have been tested in the courts.
What is different now?
What basic human rights are at stake? What about our experts makes them so subject to suspicion?
P. S. I can understand why some minorities might be skeptical of the vaccines. They have reasons in their history.
As for your last question first, the fact that you even need to ask that makes clear you are completely in the dark about life outside your bubble.
I didn't refuse the vaccine, bit I know people who chose not to get vaccinated, and even if I don't fully understand or agree with their reasons, I prefer they make their own choices to mandating that they behave as though they agree with me.
I also have a gut reaction against anything that smells of propaganda, like overstatements and misleading statements to get people to behave a certain way. When vaccinated people live in fear of the unvaccinated, they make an unconvincing case for vaccination, but when people acknowledge the flaws and the unreliability of vaccines while getting vaccinated themselves, I think they make a more convincing case. When someone insists that there is no danger when you've seen the danger, they lose credibility. Better to acknowledge the danger and help people overcome their suspicion of it. But if everyone who points out the danger is called a purveyor of misinformation even though they are speaking the truth, all that does is undermine anyone's confidence in any information.
I also look at people's behavior rather than their statements. People who take private jets to carbon reduction conferences, or who party maskless after supporting mask mandates, or who speechify about supporting public schools while sending their own children to private schools, lose all credibility.