The issue is most of these anti-vax dumbfucks have never lived, seen, or been around infectious disease killing or disabling people. It's all theoretical to them and wild stories. They have no personal experience with the disease.

Vaccines had sufficient public buy-in when they were introduced because a large portion of society knew or were related to someone that had suffered the consequences.

Let's put it into some perspective. The Spanish flu pandemic is estimated to have killed between 25-50 million people. The population of the globe at that time is estimated to be around 2 billion. That's 1.25-2.5% of the globe died. 1 person out of 40-80 died. Everyone knew somebody or was related to somebody that died of the flu.

So even though there has always been dumbfucks who refused vaccination, the majority of the population complied.

I don't know anyone personally that died of covid. Currently estimates show 14.8 million excess deaths since 2020. This is likely the number of people who died of covid. Out of 8 billion. Or 1 out of 540 people died, mostly in countries with below average medical care.