Antivax types are all anti pushing vaccine on to people but if they don’t want to get vaccinated then it still won’t affect vaccinated folks. From my rough understanding, getting vaccinated keeps you alive or get less severe symptoms, but you can still pass it on.
So if antivax people don’t get it, then why not just let them die?
Edit: guys, I’m not antivax, I just don’t understand how herd immunity works.
This ^.
COVID kinda perfectly straddled the line of extremely infections, moderately malicious, but not so dramatic (like Ebola) to provoke panic. And its vaccine just happens to make people feel kinda ill and feature a conspiracy fuel (“mRNA”).
It was a perfect storm for anti vax sentiment.
I like to think antivaxx folks would turn into pariahs in the face of the much more dramatic symptoms of, say, smallpox.