They're probably like me. I know the vaccine helps. I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID. So I don't get the vaccine because I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.
>Stop being selfish and...
His body his choice.
Additionally, this isn't how public health works. Vaccines are a level of protection that is easy to standardize and operationalize. We don't let schoolchildren skip getting the chickenpox vaccine if they've already had chickenpox.
Don't say people have a choice, then punish those who decided to choose to not get vaccinated.
I'm fully vaccinated and so is my wife, but I'll fight for the right of those who decide to not get vaccinated.
It's not ok to call other names (like "egoist") when they exercise the choice they still, to this date, have.
There's no such thing as "near zero risk from COVID." There are factors that make you high risk (age, obesity, etc) but whether covid ends up being "nothing" to "a bit sick for a few days" to "sick for weeks" to "hospitalized" to "fatal" is basically luck of the draw.
The odds of dying from covid are far, far worse than the odds of any complication from the vaccine.
95%+ of the people in my area's ICUs for covid are unvaccinated, according to the supervising physician who was interviewed on the radio.
> I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.
That's...not how that works. This sounds like the same stuff new parents believe about how they don't want to "overload" their baby's immune system with too many vaccines at once. Their immune system sees more "load" from them picking a pacifier off the floor of their living room and sticking it in their mouth.
Please speak to your primary care physician.