tl:dr: ignorant people are hurting themselves
1) From the article: "That means far more students are coming in contact with peers who are unvaccinated—a serious risk, since vaccines are not 100 percent effective."
2) Increasing taxes to deal with the huge extra onslaught of people getting sick.
100 people = 1 person. 1000 people = 10 people. 8.2 million people (the population of NYC) = 82,000 people.
That's a non trivial number, and that's just for one city.