I’m another who agrees with you OP. Not sure if it makes me a terrible person or not but it changes how I see people and I can’t be bothered with people who are able to have it but are refusing it.
It’s an incredible level of privileged stupidity to be refusing something that so many others in the rest of the world have no access to and would desperately like to have.
It’s an incredible level of arrogance to think that ‘doing your own research’ (watching some emotionally charged YouTube videos and reading scores of faked or deliberately misrepresented data and documents on the internet) makes you better placed to understand the science than people with decades of education in this area. You can’t just dismiss the scientists and doctors (the reputable ones!) expertise and intelligence by brushing them off as evil sheep willingly trying to kill off the population, JUST SO you can believe the quack on Instagram with questionable credentials because he’s telling you what you want to hear.
U.K. is very individualistic and people are literally unable to see why they should have it unless it directly and immediately benefits them personally in a very obvious way. Many people who claim it’s all a hoax or it’s all experimental vaccines (but who won’t read up on why these arguments are bollocks) will happily skip along to be jabbed once they want to go on holiday and not pay an extra few grand in testing and quarantining.
I can’t listen to people whine on about risks of vaccines while being willing to chance it on Covid when the glaringly obvious research is screaming at us all to show that any potential and very minimal chance of vaccine complication is much much much lower than the risk of complications with the actual virus itself (clots etc)
I can’t listen to people say they ‘don’t know what is in it’ when they slurp down Coca Cola, puff on cigarettes or eat McDonald’s without ever googling half of those ingredients which would be just as alarmist if any of us really wanted to be concerned with it.
Also it’s devastating to know how many immuno compromised people (especially children) are being left at higher risk because the vaccine doesn’t protect them and those around them are stamping their feet over something Sharon on Facebook has posted about critical thinking.
The world pre vaccines was a different place. Children died in numbers we cannot even imagine now, of diseases that were just seen as standard childhood illnesses. Kids aren’t dying or being disabled by smallpox or polio in significant numbers now because such high levels of vaccination occur.
But you literally cannot argue with people who desperately want to feel intellectually superior by believing something against the grain. It makes them feel more intelligent than they perhaps are, and gives them a sense of false control over things that are frightening and unpleasant.