This is a rewriting of history. Politically extreme oppositional defiant disorder and a concerted effort to sow active disinformation are the roots of the tree that bore that fruit, not vaccine mandates. Mandates followed the oppositional defiance, not the other way 'round.
If you insist on blame--and I can get behind that to some degree--ravening shitheads with political (or, I guess, perhaps mere social-media view counts) greed in their hearts are where to look, not "you are, actually and in fact, rarely but indeed sometimes obligated not to help make things worse for your fellow citizens, and we will make it happen if you lack the civic culture to do so yourself".
If you insist on blame--and I can get behind that to some degree--ravening shitheads with political (or, I guess, perhaps mere social-media view counts) greed in their hearts are where to look, not "you are, actually and in fact, rarely but indeed sometimes obligated not to help make things worse for your fellow citizens, and we will make it happen if you lack the civic culture to do so yourself".