Exactly. They can't mandate a vaccine if you just sit at home your whole life. But if you enter the public sphere there are certain rules you need to follow, and the state can mandate those.

> the state/society which should override personal rights and freedoms

Well, this is desirable to a degree, but if you take this idea all the way, you get totalitarianism.

No, it's to a large extent about the rights of people who cannot be effectively vaccinated due to pre-existing medical conditions, and therefore have to rely on herd immunity, and the rights of people who cannot receive needed health care because hospitals are filled with unvaccinated Covid-19 patients.