Highly problematic view IMO.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1478031532686290957
A lot of those who 'don't care' arrived at that view by consuming misinformation fed to them by thought leaders in their political tribe.
It's highly illiberal not to offer treatment to those that change their mind via the tragic route of a severe infection.
If you don't deny the unvaccinated treatment [maybe even if you do, but leave that aside] you are going to overwhelm care capacity without NPIs to lower the flow of cases, and deny many, vaccinated and unvaccinated, care, leading to more deaths than otherwise.
[Moreover, even for those who haven't changed their mind, you have to weigh the effect on family and friends of simply leaving them to die because they have a particular flawed view of reality].
Those who have decided to protect themselves are not 'safe' if the few of them that will contract severe covid, and the others who have some other random serious hospital problem, are prevented from being treated by an overwhelmed care capacity.
And that capacity is going to be overwhelmed unless you exclude those who did not protect themselves. [And given the numbers involved going through the peak of the epidemic, there must be a reasonable risk that they are overwhelmed anyway.]
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