Actions (or inactions) have consequences – sometimes just for the person themselves, but sometimes for wider society as well.
If either of the following statements were true, then refusal to be vaccinated against Covid-19 would only affect the individual concerned and that would be an end of any discussion :
1. Covid-19 is not transmissible from human-to-human
2. The vaccines are 100% efficient and no-one who is vaccinated can contract Covid-19
Unfortunately *neither* of the above is true – Covid is very much a human-to-human infection and the current vaccines are (at best) 90% or so effective.
This means that anyone refusing to be vaccinated poses a risk to the vaccinated population – as well as a much greater risk to themselves and other unvaccinated persons.
1. There is an increased risk of infection to individual vaccinated persons – an unvaccinated person is very much more likely to be ill with Covid-19 at some point, and will also be shedding a maximum viral load for much longer whilst in the infectious stage of the illness (recovery times are significantly longer in unvaccinated people).
2. A significant pool of infection continuing in unvaccinated persons provides increased opportunity for more harmful variants to develop.
Thus it is obvious that choosing not to be vaccinated (which is an entirely personal decision which I respect) has implications not just for the individual, but for wider society too.
As such, I have the right to be contemptuous of people who refuse the vaccine, but still insist on their right to continue to interact with Society (stay on your own in a cave and I'll respect you) and I also have the right not to give a flying fig if they catch Covid and die.