I've never heard a convincing argument about why the COVID restrictions weren't literal violations of human rights. Often I got a variant of "I'm scared we're just going to do it". Most (all?) of the arguments for it turned out to be wrong - eg, vaccination has not slowed the spread, even marginally, according to the experience in Australia where COVID tore through a highly vaccinated population. In my state (~95% adults 12+ vaccinated) we have had more than a million cases (population 8 million) in 1.5 months. And the testing systems collapsed, probably quite a bit more in reality.

This is now taking it one step further - this argument is as an assumption - suggesting people have to give up their freedoms because people paying for their own hospital capacity is unacceptable to you. I say that because the sort of person who is pro-freedom to the point of not wanting a vaccine might well overlap with the population of people pro-freedom enough that they want individuals to pay for their own healthcare.

This is not a sustainable position against 2019 business-as-usual. I agree with the headline.