The problem is you're saying "we" are blindly following others, but we're not blindly following; they (often) have science, data, statistics, facts, etc to back there narratives. So in the case of the vaccine for example, all I can do is look at the data and weight my options and that data favors(ed) the vax and favored the vax by such a wide margin it was easy to ignore some of the issues with the data collection. OTOH, had I known the vax was actually a ticking time bomb bioweapon that would kill me and my children in couple decades, then of course I wouldn't have taken it and gotten my kids vaxxed. I would have advised all my friends and family against taking it.
However, I'm not traveling to the astral plane and speaking to higher beings who are aware of a millennials old vast conspiracy to wipe out humanity with bioweapons. Let's say one night I did take a trip to the astral plane, I would have written it off as an unusual dream or acid flashback, etc. So I'm left with Alex Jones' lunatic rantings and ravings about the vax and given his track record of lies, disinformation and plain old being wrong and an inability to actually document anything he said (despite having piles upon piles of documents on his desk), how am I to trust AJ? So looking at that equation, how could I come to any conclusion other than to vax?