Especially in the modern era where peoples' attention is particularly stretched thin, trying to get the average person to add another thing to be hyper-vigilant about is going to be a hard sell. People only have so many spoons.

Not sure why you shoehorned some antivax nonsense in there though.

> Sorry. You can refuse the covid vaccine, but that won't stop everyone else from blithly accepting it.

I agree with this part, but then, I personally don't have a problem with everyone else giving up their privacy.

> Then once the critical mass is reached, your ability to buy groceries can just be terminated. The 20% of the population that refuses just isn't important enough to matter.

Wut? Can you provide any information about a supermarket chain (or law affecting supermarket chains) anywhere in the world that prevents (or prevented) people who weren't vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter or buy groceries from those supermarkets?

Taking these age-assurance laws at face value, I don't have a problem with them, because I think algorithmically-personalised social media feeds are an intrinsically bad product and I don't see anything that any society would lose if they went away. My concern about these laws is how far politicians are willing to go to close loopholes like VPNs, because I think that's where the potential is to cause inadvertent collateral damage to systems that really matter.

This analogy doesn't hold up. What does covid have to do with anything?

What does getting the COVID vaccine have to do with surveillance or grocery shopping?

Where I live I simply queued up at the local vaccination centre, got vaccinated, and left. I probably had to show some id or something I guess but no more than accessing any other government services

1. What an odd analogy. Covid vaccination was a clear net positive.

2. When was the last time you needed to show a vaccine card for anything, much less buying groceries?

I mean the analogy sounds about right, why downvoting?

When was the last time someone checked you were vaccinated for COVID?