Vaccination appears to protect well, but not perfectly, against variant B.1.617.2

Worse than that, trust in vaccination and health authorities generally would take a dive, making the whole situation even worse.

Realistically it would be more likely a prohibitive fine than a criminal charge. There’s legal precedence for that.

As for the outcry - fuck ‘em. It’ll be the death throes of an old ultra-individualist mindset.

The WHO has you covered.

Vaccination should be voluntary unless it becomes critical to “prevent a concrete and serious harm”.30 The degree of risk to communities will determine to what extent individual rights may be restricted. Where the threat of widespread, serious infectious disease is imminent, individual liberties may be justifiably curtailed.31 The Siracusa Principles endorsed by the United Nations Economic and Social Council state that: “Public health may be invoked as a ground for limiting certain rights in order to allow a State to take measures dealing with a serious threat to the health of the population or individual members of the population. These measures must be specifically aimed at preventing disease or injury or providing care for the sick and injured”.32 It may thus be permissible for those in authority to restrict individual autonomy to prevent harm to others. Although this approach has been limited to immediate or direct threat under traditional public health law, it should arguably be extended to what is “reasonably foreseeable” based on epidemiology and historical occurrence.33 If the risk to health is extremely high, individuals should not be allowed to compromise group protection and communal rights.34–36