If you're pro vax ,you're sheep that do whatever the government tells you. You're labeled a liberal pawn by many.
The personal choice to take the vax has been lost and has been blasted with every conspiracy theory imaginable by conservatives. Scroll any thread on the BC involving Covid. Nut jobs post everything from Hitler, communist plan , it's kill juice to depopulate, China & U.S. in it together, the plan is finally coming together, etc.
The mandate is a whole separate issue than the effectiveness of the shot itself. That gets lost. Maybe the pandemic is exaggerated, maybe it's not. In my circle, it's not.
The control they are trying to exhibit with the shot is a fact but that doesn't change the effectiveness of the shot, which is also a fact. Most people I know who are anti vaxers say this " Nobody is going to tell me what to do!" Even though they and those around them would benefit from the vax. Stupid.
Choice is what it's all about.
That doesn't mean one can't make the wrong choice for the wrong reason.