While I don’t subscribe to it, a legitimate argument was made that the lockdowns and other orders were justified as a way of limiting the external costs of spreading COVID-19. Simply put, it wasn’t just a matter of personal responsibility or individual decision-making. Your decisions weren’t just affecting you but were endangering others, so the government curtailing your liberty was justified, in this telling. However, now that COVID-19 vaccines are free and widely available, there is no longer any such case to be made. Any future COVID-19 hospitalizations or deaths are directly and solely the sad result of individuals who made the decision to take a risk by not being vaccinated. So, with there no longer being any issue of infecting others against their will in play, we should accept nothing less than a full and immediate restoration of our liberties.