Freedom...Yes, It's Verily 'Just Another Word for NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE' (As the Composer of That 'Ole Classic 'Me 'N Bobby McGee' Expresses So Very Aptly, Succinctly & Perceptively)...And Thus And So Many Lockdown Protestors & Other Assorted 'Anti (Covid-19) Vaccers', In Giving the Thumbs Down to the Present (Admittedly Quite Understandable and Semi-Rational) Global Paranoia/Hysteria Over the Coronavirus...DO PERHAPS HAVE A NOT ALTOGETHER ILLEGITIMATE POINT TO MAKE...

Indeed, as former Key Government cabinet minister Christopher Finlayson aptly expressed matters upon RNZ National's esteemed (weekday) Panel the other day...

the present *tidal wave to dis/allow people access to places and events purely upon **said basis does carry rather eerie reminiscences of a rather worrisome moment in 20th century affairs...

*Entirely my own phraseology.

**Ditto (i.e. the carrying and presentation of a 'Covid passport').