Being pro seatbelt and pro vax and can explain the legal difference:
In the USA, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs for refusing to get the poke. Millions more were threatened with job loss, or worse.
Meanwhile the worst that happens to me if you choose to not wear a seatbelt? A minor fine.
No surveillance, no seatbelt ID card, no federal government forcing employers to fire me if you get caught without a seatbelt. And more importantly: due process. If I decide to drive without a seatbelt and get a fine? I can contest it in court. The constitution guarantees me my day in court.
Meanwhile since there are no vaccine laws (they would never pass thru the legislature) the Gov used executive orders and "rules" from unelected bureaucrats to force people to get vaccinated. So since it wasn't a law? No due process. If you got fired you had no legal recourse but to starve or apply for welfare.
So when my work said: show us your vax ID or you're fired? Yes it's the ultimate jackbooted government overreach.
The USA used to be a country of LAWS. If you want to abuse the working man? You gotta pass the law first! Now we're a nation of national emergencies. You wanna do ANYTHING? Just say it's an emergency so the constitution no longer applies.
Now this didn't effect me personally. I already had had the 'rona and the vax by that point. And eventually the courts told the Government to back off since, again, the rules violated the constitution. But this didn't get anyone who was allergic to the vaccine, unvaccinated. This didn't get anyone who was thrown outta their job and house for refusing the vaccine back on their feet.
And remember if the vaccine was really effective? We wouldn't be having the conversation. Because YOU and ME getting vaccinated, would protect YOU and ME form the virus. Therefore it would protect YOU and ME from the UNVACCINATED.
