High percent of republicans refusing covid vaccination

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Opinions regarding this refusal? Mine: selfish, arrogant, will only cause harm to others by spreading the disease, waste medical resources if they do become ill and divert those medical resources away from the those with greater needs.

Understanding behavior is better than passing judgement on it. (Assuming you care about the lives of these people.) Regardless, you may find the following articles interesting:

• The Complex Ethical Codes of Anti-Vaxxers: New research finds that vaccine skeptics possess an unusual mix of ethical beliefs that defy the traditional left-right divide
  
• Unholy Vaccine: Why some Israelis are afraid of getting the Covid vaccine
  
• Association of moral values with vaccine hesitancy
  

I find none of the reasons in the articles compelling enough for me to validate vaccine refusal.