You are so off base it's hard to know where to start. .... What you don't seem to realize is that the government(s) are trying to mandate things that have no scientific basis.
Vaccines work.
They want to mandate that people be vaccinated with a vaccine that has VERY poor efficacy for the variants we now have.
For argument sake, lets pretend you are right (you are not) So you want government to get better vaccines for each variant?
They want to mandate masks ... that never were effective.
They are effective, else nurses and doctors in hospitals wouldn't be wearing them.
They want to mandate kids wear mask all day in school and that kids be vaccinated when there is no scientific basis for it.
The kids are able to wear masks, most would be happy to know that they do so in order to protect giving it to other kids, who can spread it to their parents and grandparents.
Hospitalizations and deaths from the current variants are WAY down .... to levels lower than the Flu on an average year.
That is another lie, in the worst year in recent history, about 52,000 people died from influenza, yesterday nearly as many Americans died from covid as on 9/11, (which was the excuse for invading two nations.)
Do they mandate FLU vaccines or everyone wear masks to protect from the Flu?
In Canada they don't, but this is nothing like the flu. In Asia, wearing a mask when you are sick is normal If you have a mask on, and if you have the flu, you could cut the chain off where you are. That could save a lot of people.
They want to force people to get a vaccine that may cause permanent side effects or death without fully informing people of the actual risks .... so much for informed consent.
Vaccines are forced on people, measels is a deadly illness that we hardly ever heard about untill it popped up again in your country because anti vaxxers thought it was a good idea not to vaccinate their kids. The vaccines cause death? How many were killed by the vaccines and did they kill 1 million Americans? Because covid did. You conspiracy theorist are nuts.
In the US, we are allowing unvaccinated, untested people to illegally enter our country and then fly and bus them all over the country
You are allowing people to enter the country illegally? Really?
..... In Canada, your prime minister wants to take a knee for protesters that tear down monuments and burn down neighborhoods and try to burn down federal buildings with people inside .... but declares non violent citizen protestors as terrorists.
Well weapons and body armour was found at one of the protests. You bring weapons to a protest, you are preparing for a fight. Fast majority of Canadians wants this to end, I am surprised it was allowed to go on this long.
As for the statues of the Queen that were torn down... More than 150,000 indigenous Canadian children were taken from their families and forced to attend the schools during the 19th and 20th Centuries with the aim of forcibly assimilating them into society. An estimated 6,000 children died while attending these schools. The Queen is the head of state, so yeah, I can't blame them for toppling the statutes.
As things are right now, the pandemic is over
No it isn't, nearly 3000 people in your country died yesterday. Are you saying 3000 is worth going to war over, but not worth wearing a mask?
.... Covid is now endemic, like the Flu.
I am afraid you are right, we will have to get vaccinated once or twice a year and hope for effective medication.
Governments(s) need to dismantle these pandemic measures
Governments will, the measures are/were in place to prevent hospitals getting overwhelmed. And once hospitals can't cope, the measures will be back again. Which is what the conservative premier of this province will surely do again. It takes 5 years to train nurses and even longer to train doctors, I wonder if they will start adding beds again and have the staff. The other option is of course to deny people access to hospital unless they have been vaccinated. Which I do not support.
... but ones like Trudeau and others are much happier pretending they are dictators.
Trudeau is a strong? Are you drunk? Most Canadians think he was to soft on the protesters. The protesters urinated on the National War Memorial and danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
There is no longer ANY justification for trying to take away citizens freedoms .... and it is questionable if there ever was.
What freedoms? You still are not allowed to drive without written permission from the government, or even when you have the right papers, when you are drunk. The "truckers" took it upon themselves, to take away the freedom of peaceful, law abiding citizens to drive where we want on publicly owned roads.
You guys remind me of house cats, convinced of your fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system you don't appreciate nor understand.
But lets try that try it again...
You want a more serious debate? Lets have a look at the "truckers" protesting here in Canada.
First question is this, can a country mandate that people entering it are not bringing in diseases?
1) If they can't, Trump banning flights from certain countries would have been wrong.
2) If they can, than mandating that people are vaccinated and tested negative is less restrictive than banning all people entering.
I recently had to get tested in order to travel, it is a pain, getting the test was 2 minutes, but one hour travel. I had to spend another 20 minutes at the airport going through the paper work and wear a mask during the flight.
So what is it, was Trump wrong or right? Should I have been allowed to travel into Canada since I came from a country that has covid?
Want to take it a step further? How about if the predominant religion of the country of departure was the "wrong" religion? What if people came to the country in search of a better life? How do we deal with borders in a humane and fair way, considering our countries are both created by and for immigrants?
You want freedom? So do I and billions of other humans on this planet, trying to make laws that are both fair and humane is not an easy thing to do, I would say it is impossible when there are so many disparities in this world.