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In Australia, I'd suggest that anyone that isn't vaccinated and is hospitalised because of it should pay out of pocket and spare the tax payer. But as usual, they're all anti vax and anti science/medicine until they're dying then they're making a scene in the hospital demanding everyone's attention.
In Australia we have significant consequences for being antivax.
You don't get the childcare subsidy, and good luck finding a childcare that will take your kids.
You can't work in healthcare, aged care, childcare and many other sectors and it's been validated in court that employers can dismiss employees who don't reasonably get vaccinated when required.
Additionally, during the pandemic antivaxxers were essentially excluded from pretty much all public life and the Australian public was perfectly content with that. The Australian population was 95% vaccinated at the peak, you can't get 90% of Australians to agree on anything, if 60% of the population supported not eating shit 40% of the population would start eating shit but we all agreed that antivaxxers can get fucked.
"I was alive and breathing before I came here, and now you're telling me I'm dying and my lungs are filling/filled with fluid?!"