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.
If Ebola ever gained the infectious profile of Covid, and we had a functioning vaccine, yes it should be mandatory. And anyone that didn’t like it could go live in Antarctica.
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.
Woah woah woah as someone who is very deeply invested in the history of, the long term well being of, and would also kill to live in Antarctica let’s not be too hasty and send them there. Might I suggest Siberia or perhaps a desert island? Hell, even the sun would be a great option
That’s not fair to all the brilliant researchers in Antarctica