That’s a disheartening story. Once you accept that the collective safety trumps individual rights when it comes to bodily integrity, you’re like the Star Trek:NG Borg race. The government will make sure that EVERYTHING becomes about the safety of the collective, including your thoughts. These people walk among us up here and scare the heck out of me because they haven’t thought through their ideas to their obvious conclusion.
It’s typical of Europe, New Zealand and Australia also. They had the US providing military defense thus enabling them to spend on all the socialist nonsense like healthcare, generous pensions and generous welfare and safety net for citizens. Which is just an extension of their history of having a monarchy rule over them. Basically they are still living in a modern version of serfdom with the state supplanting royalty. That’s all fascism or communism is, a modern version of feudalism. To be truly independent and free like the US is foreign to them.
:: The government will make sure that EVERYTHING becomes about the >>safety of the collective<<, including your thoughts. ::(my emph)
That is a danger to our democracy.
[Note, the emphasis should be placed on “our”.]