Most people were 50/50 on the vax and the mandates pushed people over the edge.
The people I know took it to:
1. Keep their job
2. Get back to "normal"
3. Empathy for others
The militant boneheads who called for antivaxxers to be arrested were in the minority.
What I did hear alot of:
" Don't you care about the old people?"
"Come on just take it so we can get herd immunity and get back to normal"
"Enough of your conspiracies bagel, where's your evidence?"
I respect the effort but I don't think it's wise to look for rationality in irrational decisions.
Most people don't believe in God so they're afraid of death. Covid scared them half to death.
When you're scared you don't clearly and you're prone to rash decisions like taking experimental gene therapeutics.