It was clear to me from early on in the COVID story that vaccines were going to end up being pushed as our savior and the only way to end the pandemic. I couldn't know in advance what effects the vaccines would actually have, but I'd been following the issue of vaccines for a number of years at that point and concluded that there were far more adverse effects than were generally acknowledged, and many (though not all) of the benefits that vaccines had supposedly brought to society were actually better explained by other factors. I saw the narratives forming that vaccines were an unquestionable sacrament of progress even prior to COVID, and the corruption at the CDC to cover up harms done by them (look up the CDC whistleblower William Thompson for more on that). So, I was heavily biased against COVID vaccines from the beginning and never wanted one. That feeling only got stronger in 2021 when the irrational behavior of so much of society got that much more intense. Luckily, I avoided almost all of the pressure to take the vaccines myself so never had to go through all that many others here have.