Unlike you, I'm Coug to the core. I don't root against WSU. So I hope Rolo loses, gets hit with sanctions and attorney fees. WSU was very good to him, agreed to pay him millions. He was asked to stop embarrassing himself and the school, to send a messenger of science over conspiracy, he refused. F him and the horse he rode in on.
FYI, approximately 5,000,000 people were hospitalized in the USA due to COVID. Yeah, most of them old, fat and in poor health to begin with, and the vax was crap in preventing transmission, but if trying, emphasis of "trying," to save lives ain't a reason for a vaccine, what is? It was never about "your risk" or the risk of the fortunate, it was about trying to protect those at risk, even when those efforts proved largely ineffective and misguided.
Rolo had ultimate freedom on this, the freedom to choose Jab vs. Job. He just wanted to have the cake and eat it too. It is like the return to the work place calls, you either return or you get canned. What right do they have to make someone return to the work place? Jab and being compelled to work at a time and place against your will are both highly invasive attacks on "personal rights." The problem with this analysis is 99% are "at will" employees, and they don't have the right to a job, it is a privilege.
As for the proven downside, what is that exactly? A very small number having adverse reactions? I haven't seen a report of significant adverse effects.