Bojack Horvatman
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The arguments from the 2nd group are basically this :
1) Nobody can take away my right to drive a car! I have the right to do whatever I want on the roads and don't need to be sober or have a license!
2) How dare my employer ask me to wear a uniform! And threaten to fire me if I don't! My rights are being taken away!
It's a variation on the long-ongoing problem that most people simply don't understand the difference between freedom of speech and freedom from consequences. 'Freedom of speech' means you can say what you want without fear of being thrown in jail by the government. It doesn't mean your job is protected if you go online and trash your employer and they find out. Likewise, people are free to not get the vaccine if they want. But it doesn't mean it isn't totally legal and right for there to be consequences of that decision.
It's basically a group of ignorant, entitled idiots who think they should be able to act however they want whenever and wherever they want without any consequences, ever. And are absolutely shocked when there are.
100%. I think a big part of it is how politicized this issue has become, and how much misinformation and media attention there is about it. Pandemic measures are really no different than other laws we have in place for the safety of the general public. You don't hear about complaints about driving laws, fire and electric codes, OSHA, water treatment and quality laws, campfire bans etc. At least not to this degree. If people were forced to wear masks as regular ppe like steel toe boots and hard hats there would be zero fuss about muh freedoms. But because masks were apart of this "plandemic and great reset", it is tyranny. If there was more new coverage from the right wing media about camp fire bans being against your freedom and government tyranny, you would see protests about camp fire bans.