It seems it was announced this afternoon, that the only person to die ( so far ) from the latest version of the virus, was unvaccinated, as he thought the virus was fake.
Announced as in a caller to LBC who wouldn't give his name claiming it was his antivaxxer father who died of it despite refusing to go out for the last 18 months (the only antivaxxer and fake virus conspiracist I know of who self quarantined).
I'm not sure whether he then claimed to be a Nigerian Prince who needed £5,000 to get probate to release his fathers multimillion pound will but it wouldn't surprise me.
Oh absolutely. But vaccine scepticism has been a thing for a long time regardless of lying hypocritical politicians. The Andrew Wakefield scandal started the modern trend and social media allows misinformation to spread very easily. He's still raking it in as a speaker in the US by the way.
Correction, what kicked off the vaccine scepticism was that, after Wakefields raised concerns about the triple jab, the UK and other governments responded by refusing to make the single jab option available for those who wanted it, giving anyone dissenting a hard time and Blair refusing to say if his son had had it is what started the modern trend, and finally the manufacturers being pressurised to withdraw the single mumps vaccine.
Personally I paid for the singles privately for my brood at no insignificant cost as I saw no point in taking unnecessary risks (also a lot of evidence that you get better immunity from the singles spaced six weeks apart than all three dumped in together in a single jab).
The streak of fascist we-know-best-and-you-will-do-as-you-are-told authoritarianism in the health establiahment was revealed during the Wakefield fiasco long before Covid.