I’m not sure if it takes (much) longer in reality. No I don’t think it would change much, were it a much faster death. I think that if it would literally decimate the population, and people would lose family members, then it probably would lead some of them to contemplate their previous beliefs/decisions. I just read about a guy who wasn’t vaccinated (he sort of ‘forgot’, due to him already had been sick with Covid (or so he believed) and concluding he couldn’t get it again, and he didn’t watch much news anymore (gotten sick of the politicising the whole Covid thing)). Now he is in the ICU, intubated and on oxygen support, documenting his struggle on Facebook, in the hope of educating anti-vaxxers and more importantly people who are on the fence. Some of his Facebook friends have indeed gotten the shot. But people (some) who are strongly anti might see in him a straw man of the New World Order.