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People (idiots) prefer therapeutic to preventative because of shitty/misattributed confirmation bias. If they get the shots and don't get sick, it's not because of the shots, it's because they weren't ever going to get sick anyway. If they get sick, take something, and get better, it's because of whatever they took. They can't see the vaccine helping them, so it isn't happening, and if it isn't happening, then it's worthless, and if it's worthless but someone's trying to "make" you take it anyway, it's cause they have an ulterior motive.
Additionally, antivaxxers group all vaccines as if they're all the same. "The vaccine on malaria didn't work? The vaccine on polio must be the same". But they would not apply the same incorrect conclusion to medicine. "Oh the immunotherapy on cancer didn't work. I will take painkillers to ease the pain at least". Medicines and vaccines are not all the same and this doesn't register to many.