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.
Thats a hard thing to do in the us. I could see universal vaccinations. Vaccinations being paid by the government and free to get. The cost to benefit would likely exceed anything else the government funds. To take if further in a country that has single payer universal healthcare you could mandate that if you don’t get vaccinated for a particular disease where one is available the coverage would not apply to that disease. You and your primary care doctor would get notifications around it and you would have something like a year to get it with reminders every month or something. Then folks would not have to get it but may risk bankruptcy with their medical bills from catching a pandemic.