The risk here was trusting the government with a new, undertested and rushed product which people were largely coerced into taking.

Scientific work turned into consensus rather than transparent methodology, that is how we ended up here in the first place. "All the experts agree" is fallacious reasoning and not proof of anything other than a demonstration that people's opinions can be bought, and it is the baseline reasoning for all the claims the establishment makes.

A year ago, or two, or three, the risk was almost entirely speculation, and (warranted) skepticism. Now we have a lot of verifiable data which has confirmed some of the speculation. Other confirmations one way or another will come with time.