Measures taken do comparatively little to address any one individual's risk or concerns. Addressing individuals simply isn't viable or useful.
Taking measures to assure population health, dynamics, spread, total healthcare system load, etc., are what matter.
As someone who'se quite the champion of individual rights, for now: individual rights be damned in the interest of community health.
Please note that this statement has multiple elements, all critical:
- The overall interest is community health outcomes (CHO).
- Individual rights not associated with CHO are not affected. Rights suppressions not advancing or relating to CHO are inappropriate.
- The principle is temporary, for the duration of the epidemic, or until such time as any control is utterly futile.
Epidemiological response is about reducing vectors, contacts, reservoirs, and susceptibility, as well as second-order risks. Limiting movement, enhanced disease monitoring, contacts-tracing, quarantine, free treatment, mandatory vaccination (if available), financial aid and intervention to individuals, businesses, and the financial sector (in that order), rationing, if necessary, and measures taken against community-detrimental actions (a long list: disinformation, misinformation, hoarding, price-gouging, intentional contamination or spreading disease, flouting quarantine/curfew, requiring sick workers to work orfiring them, etc.)
That leaves a broad set of other rights, but is a substantial curtailment.