Adults realize the danger in unchecked authority. Children do not. That is why they trust their parents without question. It's only as an older teenager you come to realize that your parents are imperfect people, with idiosyncracies, faults, and problems of their own.

Adults realize what unchecked authority is like, and that this isn’t it.

They also realize that a global pandemic has left no country untouched, and even enemies are desperate for vaccination.

Finally, adults realize what a privileged position we’re in and that insisting rights are being trampled (whose rights?) doesn’t make it so

Except the global pandemic has left the vast vast vast majority of the world's population untouched.

Except it has affected many.

https://www.aier.org/article/no-lockdowns-the-terrifying-pol...

Context is everything: Polio affected less than 1% of the population. Even a smaller fraction, when counting those paralyzed.

Still a scary disease.

Oh really? How many people have been hospitalized or died compared to how many people are alive today?

Far more than some of scary diseases that we eradicated last century.