Freedom Fighters or Just Plain Selfish?

Concern is being raised (even before we have a vaccine- if we ever get one!) that anti-vaxxers in Europe may make protecting populations from Covid-19 difficult or even impossible(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/23/europes-covid-predicament-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-the-anti-vaxxers). So, big debates are already occurring about issues such as a) Should vaccination be compulsory (or will this drive more people into the anti-vaxx camp?) and b) Can we confidently issue vaccination 'passports' to allow some people to return to a more normal life? There is general belief that you can only eliminate a virus if a minimum of 70% of the population (this is the so-called 'herd immunity') is vaccinated (decline in the take-up of the MMR vaccine is the reason why measles and mumps are currently showing resurgences). Worryingly, 'herd immunity' for Sars CoV-2 might be quite difficult to establish, as studies in Stockholm, which did not enter lockdown, revealed a surprisingly low incidence of blood antibodies in their population (https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/may/23/sweden-covid-19-policy-model-for-right-also-a-deadly-folly). Many of the anti-vaxxers, it appears, are more concerned with preventing 'the State' or 'Big Pharma' dictating their lives, than about disease (sometimes dismissed as an 'invention' of these vested interests). There have been several prominent campaigns by anti-vaxxers in Germany that have attracted both left and right-wing support. If you combine this with the claim that the Covid-19 pandemic actually results from the setting up of a 5G mobile telephone system, you can see that Public Health bodies across the continent are going to have a difficult time 'selling' the idea of maximising vaccination uptake to protect all.