[pcan77]

I honestly think you severely underestimate the amount of people not taking it due to being conspiracy nuts.

I never thought I'd know ANYONE like this, but now almost every antivaxxer I know has some crackpot insanity reason for not getting vaccinated. None of them are worried about safety, FDA approval, etc. Hell my FIL thinks COVID-19 was meant to bring the endtimes so Jesus will come back and the rapture will happen. So do ALL of his constituents of his Church more or less.

So let's not mitigate the crackpots to a "minority" because it's simply not true.

[arghnoname]

One problem here is there are two camps in the vaccine resistant group:

1. Those who did not want to take the vaccine but did

2. Those who will not take the vaccine under nearly any condition

With many people's jobs being threatened and ability to eat in restaurants, etc being limited, most unvaxxed are in the second camp. At this stage I'd say they must have very strong feelings on it and are more likely to think the vaccine is much more dangerous than the data suggests or has some other nefarious purpose.

I'm vaccinated and I did it voluntarily as it seemed like it met the risk/reward trade-off for me. I've always been against mandates. I probably won't take the current booster unless forced (more of the same for a very different and likely mild variant meet my cost/benefit threshold), but I will take it if my job hinges on it. Rational people weigh cost/benefit. Losing your job definitely tilts the ledger, but I imagine many people who felt coerced into their decision are pretty sore over it and we will suffer some serious political repercussions for this, in my view, unnecessary mandate.