The very same people refusing right now are the ones who have likely taken the time to look into things a bit more. When they do search out information, instead of finding honest answers, scientists giving them answers and working towards solutions, debates helping to alleviate concerns, etc., they're finding the exact opposite; our institutions saying those things simply don't exist and a mountain of shit being censored.

I think, in their minds, it's the only way to get people to comply.

Allowing people to ask hard questions and allowing scientists and medical professional to give any sort of honest answer would turn off any common-minded individual who actually cares about their health. Plus those same people could then use health professional statements as citations about the harms of the vaccines, which, as you mentioned, couldn't be allowed as it would break the narrative.

Getting all the scientists to lie about it makes it really hard, almost nigh impossible, to quote a legitimate institution about the dangers of mRNA technology or the SAEs associated with the vax. So, I'm guessing that's why they were just going to lie all along and keep repeating the "safe and effective" routine, even if it meant people cracking away at the narrative at various opporutnities... such as a twerking rap star known for her large posterior.

The most concerning part is that as they build towards this narrative, should the worst outcome come to pass and everyone becomes terribly ill because of the vaccine program, they'll very likely use the unvaxxed as the reason for that.

Right, they're already using the unvaxxed narrative now to pin all the variant strains on them, even though we already know the variants are replicating from the vaccinated.

I imagine they'll blame many of the upcoming sicknesses and deaths during the fall/winter on the unvaccinated to go full-blown authoritarian on mandates and boosters.