I agree it's about childishness. A selection of the population, let's call them the dangling liars, think that private medical matters should be public
Aren't some people great? They ask you for a proof that you got a vaccine
while a pandemic is raging and it is immediately compared with being forced to sell your own family to white slaves
(They already pry into your "private medical matters" every time they check your temperature before allowing you to enter a place, BTW. Yes, even when they do it with drones and you don't know about it).
that the standard of informed consent should be thrown out the door in favor of one-size-fits all solutions using experimental technologies
We could keep the World locked down for another year, agreed (only to shift the screams on "they took my freedom!!!" topics). And of course something tested on two
billions people across the World for the last six months is nothing more than "experimental". I hear that they are actually importing aliens from Zeta Reticuli so to increase the pool of those "testing".
that a segregated society is a good thing
If it is mandated during a pandemic? Is this a trick question? Ships were quarantined and people barricaded themselves in remote places centuries before people knew what "germs" were.
and that any dissent needs to be suppressed.
No one needs to "suppress dissent": the COVID does it for you.
The effort against COVID is a war, pure and simple. And yet the country who, in any war it found itself in, "suppressed dissent" (like with "Wilson's Hardline Approach" in 1917, or the "social self-suppression" in the lead up to Iraq 2003), tried "experimental therapies" (Penicillin C was experimental during WWII), curtailed civil liberties and ignored civil rights (Lincoln suppressed the "Habeas Corpus" during the Civil War) and pried into medical records (McCarthy, amid other things, in the "War against Communism") - all of this usually amid a delirium of RAH! RAH! - can't understand that they are in a fight. They already paid a terrible price in human lives... and yet you can still find people clueless as why "The richest, advancestest and overall bestest country in the World!" had COVID running circles around it. Boy...
(Who knows? Maybe the real point of origin of COVID wasn't China but Vietnam).
I'm seriously considering a new rule for my CoC campaign. Since "Under a Winter Snow" is a scenario about the fear of a Spanish Flu resurgence in 1921's North Dakota, I'll have the players make an INT check. If they fail it, their characters will not believe in masks, social distance and quarantine measures. Stunningly clear proof that they were wrong will require another INT check, with a second failure meaning that this belief is permanent. "Unbelieving" characters will have to make a SAN check if forced to comply. Success will mean that they will fake compliance only to ditch the measures ASAP, failure will cause immediate "deranged rant" reactions and, if repeated, violent behaviour.
As the Keeper, I already know that
I'll have to enforce these beliefs the way I enforce certain actions on insane characters - because, believe me, over here no one would behave that way, not even in a RPG.