But why not mandate masks, forever? And keep distance, stop all meetings over 8 people forever etc? Covid measures prevented seasonal flu and other transferable diseases (STDs etc) so why not enforce a that with 'state violence'?

Of course not: just overreach because every state is struggling with the first pandemic in their life time.

That is quite the jump. Here we were talking about the absurdity of putting unvaccinated people on a no-fly list but put it into perspective against the state violently suppressing it's people in the name of disease prevention and you can can definitely see that they are both absurd.

Welcome to earth. You, a human being, are a vector for numerous pathogens at any given time. In fact, you are made up of viruses to a not insignificant extent!

Criminalizing being a vector for disease amounts to criminalizing humanity as such. What freedom of assembly is possible if everyone is already guilty of carrying viruses?