I'm an immunologist, so my expertise is not entirely around how one makes decisions around public health. But as a person, I feel that if I don't understand what the mandates are trying to achieve...and it was never really clear to me what the purpose of the mandates was, especially around freedom of movement.
To me, if you're trying to prevent transmission—and obviously the vaccines are not doing that right now—then I think imposing that on people doesn't really make sense. You can see why it would increase resentment and mistrust. Those sorts of heavy-handed measures don't serve any purpose other than to build resentment and anger at a time when we could use more positivity, I think, than negativity.
It's been a hard time for everyone. I think we would want to make life as easy as possible and less filled with resentment at this time, to really all recover together from this pandemic. I really think these mandates at this time should be lifted, especially for travel.