The funny thing about vaccination is that at the start of the pandemic, it was really not a great choice for the individual (because our odds of encountering the virus were actually pretty low), but those of us who got vaccinated were doing our part of the group project to re-open society. With the new strains and society re-opened, it's really got a lot less societal impact (since the vaccines have little effect on transmission) but high individual benefit because our exposure risk is now much higher and it is effective in reducing severe outcomes.
The point of all this is that people who have been consistently anti-vaxx are not even rationally selfish freeloaders, they're just bad at making sound decisions.
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