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The piece attempts to equate reasonable public health measures to former tyrannical rule. These kinds of comparisons aren’t helpful for debate - they simultaneously exaggerate a mere and temporary inconvenience while reducing legitimate past atrocities.

It’s also simply a gross misrepresentation, the restrictions to freedoms are largely already gone - so covid wasn’t a covert power grab after all.

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I hate these ideas for passes. I don't want to see this implmented on the EU level just because it reduces irrational fears. If Covid is a significant threat to you, get vaccinated.

> the restrictions to freedoms are largely already gone

I think needing a pass to enter public and private facilities is a severe restriction of freedom. On the contrary, it should be dropped and put into the closet labeled 'bad ideas'.

We already had enough censorship of information that later proved true. Enough with this FUD.

Many Germans went along with Hitler’s policies, convinced that they would ultimately be advantageous for the country. Reasonable public health measures don’t require censorship of public discourse.

COVID restrictions isn’t the holocaust.

And harmful items are frequently censored - from basic rating systems to the prevent of child pornography: Society and governments censor things that cause harm. The parent comment calls out germany specifically, yet this is a country where nazi symbols and gestures are censored (with a well established rationale for doing so.)

Covid disinformation is undeniably harmful and contributes absolutely nothing. Social media networks choosing to pull down harmful misinformation is entirely consistent with not only how they operate but how society operates as a whole.

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