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Very sensible. If everyone had adopted that viewpoint then there'd be far fewer "antivaxxers" in the world. Vaccines as pure commercial products you buy for your own use, with governments getting out of the way as much as possible, would be far less controversial.

Unfortunately governments can't stay away from the idea of forcing everyone to vaccinate in reach herd immunity, a concept that seems to appear and disappear depending on what public health wants you to do today. How many people have to take it to reach this threshold? Nobody knows because the people who are supposed to know what it is make it up in order to generate compliance (Fauci admitted to doing this in the New York Times).

For people to start trusting vaccines again, they need to be treated like any other drug. The idea of policy-created herd immunity is attractive but too destructive to tolerate. Once governments think they have a magic policy solution to a problem they can't resist pushing it regardless of consequences.