Sounds like there never was a reasonable case for mandates then :)

For young people the risk of death goes from something like 0.1% to 0.01% with the vaccine (just aiming for order of magnitude risks), which isn't a big deal for an individual.

However, when you are talking about populations of 10s of millions in low risk age ranges, it's 10,000's of preventable deaths!

Even if you don't care about the deaths (it's their choice to die; whatever), note that for every death, there are 10-100 long covid cases that are pulling resources from the health care system indefinitely.

The vaccine seems to cut those by about 90% too. Why should we waste tax dollars on medicare and welfare for anti-vaxxers?

    Why should we waste tax dollars on medicare and welfare for anti-vaxxers?

Then should use this argument against obesity, drug use and other dangerous activities as well, cool?

> it's 10,000's of preventable deaths!

Not in young age groups its not. Those 10k at risk of Covid death are at significantly higher risk of death from other causes too. If we stratified by more than age you'd see significantly reduced IFR among all age groups in the group without comorbidities. Quit lumping all people together, this is the age of big data and we should be using it to enhance lives not subjugate with blithe renderings.