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soundman98.
A couple of things. I'm a little puzzled by the first sentence. "[S]ince the beginning..." of what? The Pandemic? I'm pretty sure the 804k number is just that. It just dwarfs other "unintentional" sources of mortality.
I generally agree with the rest of your points. My problem (like, I think yours) is the impact we have on other people. The smoking analogy may be apt. Do I have a right to smoke as I please around other people, knowing that second hand smoke kills 41,000 people a year? I would argue no, I don't. If I want to kill myself, that's my affair. There are, to be sure, other externalities stemming from my habit, but setting those up requires restaurant napkins and straws.
Vaccine decisions are similar. The big difference is the causes of death from smoking are known and, more or less, fixed. By smoking I am not going to assist in creating a new, mutated form of death by smoking which I can pass on to non-smokers.
That is precisely what the unvaxed can. I've ranted since the beginning that this is a long haul, uphill fight. The virus's ability to mutate into new forms makes it a phantom enemy. If I go unvaxxed I'm allowing the virus to use me as a petri dish to incubate new forms that may be able to leap the vaccine barrier. That's on me. The rest of society really should ostracize me.
Again, I'm thinking Devils Island. Don't want to be part of society? - there you go.