So imagine living on a large island with 99 of your closest friends. The island is large enough to sustain a comfortable life for each of you as well as room for population growth. During the course of farming, it is found that the food is contaminated with an unknown contagion. After some brief testing, it's found that, although harmful, the contagion is most likely going to cause the mortality of only one or two of the islands inhabitants, and they will most likely be the eldest or most ill among you.
Panicked, big authoritarian governments swing into action. They authorize a reputable airplane company (that most of them are invested in), to build a plane to evacuate you and your friends from the island. In the meantime, you're left to take the risk that the contagion could harm you while you wait. Some await the plane anxiously, others are comfortable with the relatively low risk of harm and go about enjoying their life as best they can. You and your friends continue to eat the food because you have no choice, all the while, your bodies are adapting to handle the contagion making it less harmful with the passage of time.
Finally, the day comes when the plane is ready. It took them less than a year to plan, develop, build, and deliver it to the island. It usually takes 10 years or more to achieve such awesome accomplishments and some of your friends are eager to buy their ticket and take the flight. But such a quick build raises questions in the minds of others. The plane company assures you that they've used a proven design from other planes they've made to finish the one they've just delivered. In doing so, they felt comfortable skipping some of their normal processes like wind-tunnel testing and checking to make sure the software was updated properly on the navigation system.
While you're pondering the implications of this knowledge and considering the cost vs. benefit of getting on the plane, in order to avoid being the one person that the food might cause permanent harm too, the people in the plane start trying to convince you that it's you're best option. Then some of them try to shame you into getting on by questioning your motives, intelligence, or flat out calling you evil for wanting to harm the people that are already on the plane and presumably headed to safety.
Then, the big authoritarian government, which has been repeating they're own limited understanding of how the plane works and how safe it is through a megaphone, rolls down the passenger windows that the plane has and aims guns loaded with mandate bullets at you and your kids. Some of them aren't even on the plane. These special bullets have the ability to limit your ability to farm and provide food for your family, or limit your access to education, employment, or travel. They tell you to get on or face the consequences, you and your kids. Never mind that the plane wasn't made with child appropriate accommodations, just get on.
While this discourse was taking place, it was discovered that the plane had a design flaw in which its fuel tanks only had enough fuel to fly you to the otherside of the island where you still have to eat the same food. But convinced by their own speeches or virtue signaling, the passengers, the plane company, and big government remain convinced that getting on this unproven plane and getting to the other side of the island with the same food is safer than eating the food on this side of the island. Yet it's still unclear if they believe it themselves or if a handful of them are just colluding to line their own pockets.
The question is... do you get on or not? Why or why not?