[echelon]

> I feel like the last year of 'quarantine' for most of the Western world has made people more comfortable with authoritarian governments and actions.

Half of the US is up in arms about it, for better or worse. I think you'd have a hard time imposing anything on the US.

The other half doesn't think immunizations are authoritarian, just science.

Maybe 1% of the loud and attention grabbing people on either side of the isle wants to impose things on the other just for the sake of imposing them.

So not exactly.

[UnFleshedOne]

That 1%, if they are loud enough, can move overton window for the whole society. Recall how fast vaccine passports moved from a crazy right wing conspiracy theory to an obvious and necessary measure. Last year is full of such examples.

[1270018080]

I think you have it backwards. In the last year, vaccines passports (in other words, immunization records) went from an obvious and necessary measure to a crazy wight wing conspiracy theory.

[honkdaddy]

A year ago in my country, vaccine passports were very much a conspiracy theory, and back in 2020, our PM assured us they wouldn't be coming. [1] A year later, as the GP mentioned, this has instead become the standard to expect going forward. [2]. Exactly what they described has happened, something which was once considered an irrational fear of libertarians has become reality.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/7576955/coronavirus-vaccine-passp...

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/8104692/canada-getting-proof-of-v...