What about the science? At least, the pre-Covid science... Before Covid, it was understood that someone who got a disease and recovered had a lifetime immunity. So, for example, as someone who got chicken pox as a child, I did not need to get vaccinated for it. I did get vaccinated for other diseases.
Now, people are telling those who have gotten Covid and recovered that they still need to get the vaccine, the booster shots, etc. But it was proven long before Covid that natural immunity confers better protection than a vaccine! Natural immunity is more broad based and powerful. There are innumerable scientific studies that have been done.
If you believe in the science and now you disagree with this - where is the data to prove this new conclusion? I'm not saying that the new premise is false, but in the past, when a new premise is posed, it must be accompanied by evidence in order to be considered - it must be proven true, not simply accepted as such because "authority figures" say so.
The problem is that Covid is a politicized disease. Instead of sticking to the facts, the data and the science, opinion masquerades as Holy Writ. The fact is that anyone who has a brain will ask questions. Once upon a time, people in a free society were not demonized for asking these questions. The fact that people jump down your throat instead of calmly addressing your points tells me that fanaticism, not reason, is driving the debate. Fanaticism is not a good methodology for coming up with good solutions.
Finally, whatever happened to "my body. my decision"? The same people who champion abortion at any stage in the pregnancy, sex change operations for minors and free consumption of drugs throw out their libertarian concerns when it comes to the vaccine.
The argument is that someone who is unvaccinated is a danger to the vaccinated - but this is a bogus argument. People who were not vaccinated for chicken pox were not a danger to those who were vaccinated. That is because the chicken pox vaccine is an actual vaccine that confers immunity. It actually works.
If the Covid vaccines worked as they claimed to, then the chances of a vaccinated person getting Covid would be miniscule and places like Israel, which have very high vaccination rates, would not have mask mandates and so on.
BTW, I am not anti-VAXX. But the reality is, again, looking at the hard data that is readily available from a variety of sources from the WHO to Worldometers, the original Covid had a vanishingly small mortality rate for those under 60 and without underlying conditions. Therefore, it made sense for the elderly and those with serious issues such as diabetes to get vaccinated. It made no sense for a healthy young person to get the vaccine given the death rate was about 1 in 10,000 for that group given the possibility of complications from the vaccine.
This is true with all medications, BTW. Even aspirin has known side effects, it's just that the cost/benefit analysis shows that the risk to reward ratio is quite low. With something like chemotherapy, the ratio weights quite differently. Where is the Covid vaccine on this scale? I am not sure but given the known side-effects that have been reported, I suspect it is more dangerous than an aspirin and less potentially harmful than chemo. For those at high risk of death from Covid, the vaccine makes sense. For the rest of us, it does not.
