Stop doing the thing that everyone does which is labeling everyone who was hesitant about the vaccine as "anti-vaxxers". People recognised that the vast majority of cases resulted in recovery without severe issues, leading them to weigh this against potential long term vaccine effects, and it didn't stop transmission which muddles the risk-benefit analysis even more.
You say the statistics show better a outcome with the vax, but what about the statistics indicating that the vast majority of people experience only mild symptoms or none at all, so why bother with a vaccine at all, I didn't and you won't be able to find someone an unvaccinated person who wish they took it.
Baffling that someone in the UK would advocate for a Chinese authoritarian approach; I bet you're among those who champion 'my body, my choice' yet you'd entertain the idea of government forcing needles into peoples arms
You try and argue statistics, whilst admitting that the stats improve the outcome.
They also protect the weakest. Vaccination is very rarely about the individual, it's about the herd. If you only vaccinated the weakest that could be vaccinated, many would still be exposed and suffer greatly. The unvaccinated have ridden on the coat tails of the vaccinated, and will enjoy better outcomes because of them.
To try and illustrate.
If an unvaccinated person catches COVID, who hasn't had it before, their bodies will be slow to respond, and the virus will reach greater loads, meaning they will pass on a greater dose.
If this greater dose hits a vulnerable person, they may not be able to respond fast enough before being overwhelmed.
If they are hit with a smaller dose, they will have much more time to adapt before the virus reaches dangerous levels.
In a vaccinated population, each time the virus is passed on, it will be in small amounts, giving prepared immune systems the best chance to react, but also unvaccinated immune systems more time as well.
In ideal circumstances, this can be so effective that the vaccinated don't ever reach contagious levels (or within one or two transfers it is reduced to that degree). This is where diseases that have been almost wiped out have reached, and are now unfortunately making a comeback, as there's more free pathways through the unvaccinated, allowing the illness to spread in sufficient volume to constantly reach infectious levels.
The herd is there to protect the weakest, but even then the vaccines help even the healthy deal with the illness more effectively and safer. The more people refuse the vaccines, the less effective herd protection becomes.
It was the same thing with masks, they weren't really worn to prevent you from catching COVID, and weren't presented that way officially, but to help prevent you give it to anyone else. There again, people refused to protect others, so they could avoid a slight inconvenience to themselves.
