Just so you know, this is an old problem in American democracy, which has risen to the Supreme Court over a hundred years ago, and been settled in favor of publ

Just so you know, this is an old problem in American democracy, which has risen to the Supreme Court over a hundred years ago, and been settled in favor of public health. It is not a slippery slope to authoritarianism, it is an extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures (i.e. wartime, smallpox). As a nation, we’ve long ago decided and upheld the idea that public health is more valuable than individual liberty, in times like these. If you’re curious, the case is Jacobson v Massachusetts. Excerpted from Wikipedia: > Harlan ruled that Massachusetts was justified in mandating vaccination: "there are manifold restraints to which each person is necessarily subject for the common good". While Harlan supported such restraints, he also warned that if the state targeted specific individuals or populations to unnecessary restrictions, the court might have to step in to protect them. > That was a few years after Wong Wai v. Williamson in which a federal circuit court injunction in San Francisco was overturned. It required all Chinese residents of San Francisco to get a dangerous bubonic plague inoculation if they wished to leave the city, which Judge William Morrow ruled was "boldly directed against the Asiatic or Mongolian race as a class".