> Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are quasi-police states [1] and will probably mandate vaccination+boosters soon. Regardless of whatever metric you use to

> Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are quasi-police states [1] and will probably mandate vaccination+boosters soon. Regardless of whatever metric you use to define “freedom” all of those countries rank higher than the US pre-Covid for “freedom”[1][2][3]. If your argument is that those countries are fundamentally “less-free” post-Covid due to public health measures, I don’t see the data to support that. To imply that all those countries will shift from the principles that drive them pre-Covid to a police-state post-Covid is very unlikely given the prior right? As someone who’s lived in one of those countries and the US, I can say that the tendency of the US to argue over every small issue, even if it is overwhelmingly common sense and beneficial, takes away a lot of focus on the big issues that the country needs to solve. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index [2] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table [3] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...