my conservative brother is of the opinion that the human body doesn't need any "chemicals or toxins" to survive, so he opted out of vaccinating his two children, and stopped taking vaccines himself as well. While I don't know whether or not he regrets the choice, his family is easily the most chronically ill family I know. They're just always sick, and it lasts forever. My brother is a pretty health-conscious guy and he works out and eats well, but when he gets sick, it lasts for a fucking month. His kids have missed so much school that they basically have to be in summer school just to catch up. I feel bad for them because they didn't make this choice, but they're certainly suffering the consequences.
after a while it just became a game to control the populous and grab more power for the government.
This is always the most hilarious accusation to me, because the government didn't gain any power it didn't already have. You just fancy yourself some kind of heroic resistance for doing literally nothing. Lockdowns weren't real; boomers just got told they had to wear a mask and not go to Applebees for a few weeks and they lost their shit.