Freezing bank accounts is an ugly overreach. Going to give sympathy to the protesters
A fair comment in my view, but it does raise an interesting question - what is this comparable to? This is something extreme, it must be comparable to some major past event. Attacking truck drivers in this way isn't normal peacetime activity, it looks like a lot of extreme measures are being taken.
> "The other proposed change would let individuals file legal complaints against people pre-emptively, if they fear that they may be about to say something hateful."
Also, woah. Is that at all true?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
The nazis used this pattern too, but they also systematically murdered group B, which in my opinion disqualifies direct comparisons.
The vaccine situation isn't like that. People decided on their own whether to get a vaccine. Just like whether they decide on their own how to vote, how to eat, etc. Some of them are militant about whether others should eat meat or inject vaccines, they're not encouraged to be militant by Justin Trudeau or Stanford researchers.
I think that the division of people by vaccination status is active, like a division by religion or language would be active.
> they're not encouraged to be militant by Justin Trudeau or Stanford researchers.
I am not sure about this. Some argue that demand characteristics lead to the outcome of the experiment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Dem...
The BBC experiment had a different outcome. Like the Danish "experiment" today (no mandates, no protests, nobody calling for state of emergency).
As I understand, with measles vaccines an outbreak can be prevented, while SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are not stopping the virus even in fully vaccinated populations.
We also need to look at risks. Covid risks are spread unevenly over a population and it does not look to me like the threat is existential for humanity.
Especially younger people are looking at worse risk/benefit ratios than older people.
Since the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are not good at preventing transmission, I don't think that a mandate is needed, suitable or adequate.
There are no mandates to quit drinking, smoking, potato chips and extreme sports or to do yoga, to eat healthy and to take proper supplements. Introducing such mandates may technically be possible, but it would leave us with a system like the social credit score where we need to prove our smoking, drinking or yoga status in order to be allowed to just be. Being required to prove our vaccination status already introduces a little bit of this and vaccinations could be done without this, by just not mandating them.
I think it is fair to protest against this.
To me that answer makes you look like the kind of person who protests against using a condom on a one-night stand because you don't know whether it'll protect against an unwanted pregnancy next week, and anyway the risks of an unwanted pregnancy are uneven.