Just to clarify, I didn't take a position on Covid policy in my post. I was just making an observation about the way it is being played out from my perspective.
I understand why you might find the analogy a false equivalency from your point-of-view, but in a way, when you say...
"The people supporting life saving vaccines don’t need any faith beyond general empiricism and the absence of a worldwide conspiracy to fake data. We see the data and it wildly supports vaccine uptake by the entire population. "
... it sounds like you're saying that it's self-evident. But it's kind of like the "argument" for the existence of God that goes "Just look around! It's obvious that the world was created by an all-powerful benevolent creator." Other people look around and see sickness and death and say "Just look around! This world could not have been created by an all-powerful benevolent God."
But that's neither here nor there. My post was more a reaction to the "excommunication" of some guy I've never heard of from the church of Twitter.
Go in peace, y'all.