Every school system in the US requires its students to be vaccinated against a host of preventable illnesses. It is standard medical practice to vaccinate human infants. It is also standard medical practice to vaccinate pets and livestock against preventable illnesses.
I remember the threat of polio as a kid. Not fun. Scary. f not outright deadly, highly disabling.
I don’t understand how preventing pain and death somehow became a rallying cry for freedom of choice. It’s sort of like yelling, “I have a right to injure, disfigure, and kill myself!”. Which just seems to be so contrary to the core foundation of aviators. The basis of all aviation education is safety for self and others.
The “deal” with the corona virus is that it can only live and multiply in humans, and the more it multiplies the more likely it will mutate into more “successful” variants. Stopping the multiplication or the spread and the pandemic is arrested. It’s really the patriotic thing to do.