commonsenseplz

My dystopia is having had to stay in my tiny urban apartment without leaving for 70 days waiting for the government to take action and then when I realised they wouldn't, having to uproot and move to a different continent altogether away from the place I called home for the past decade in order to simply feel safe.

Interesting, since I thought I had a radical position but your position seems to be more radical, let me ask you:

What if we later find out that the first generations of the vaccines came with a whole bunch of delayed-action side effects?

> [...] a sizable portion of the population is ready and willing to trample human rights in the name of public safety.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 25:

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family (...)

Your right ends when the rights of others begin. Rights don't exist in an absolute vacuum.

Hopefully! To expand a little: I think there should be a grace period of maybe a couple of years until the safety of the vaccine is established more deeply, but it's not reasonable to expect this not to be enforced afterwards.

In places where yellow fever is endemic, for example, many countries require vaccination if you want to visit.

> For instance their first lockdown was extremely rigid and enforced with heavy policing

You seem to think that's a bad thing? I had built a life in northern Europe over the past decade, then I decided to leave when I realised neither the government nor the people seemed actually inclined to lockdown. Now for the past 6 months I live in a country with single-digit local contagion cases and the street I used to live in Berlin is the hardest-hit in Germany... Go figure

The country I now live reached its status by closing borders for non-essencial travel, extremely rigid fines for breaking quarantine on arrival, and heavy police enforcement of those fines.