Appeals to emotion, and state propaganda about anecdotal incidents are no grounds for government censorship or the destruction of the first Amendment.
Sorry, that's just a fallacious argument, right out the gate.
Lot's of folks knew, at the founding of our nation, that Small Pox was deadly, and being inoculated against it, reduced your chances of mortality.
The excess mortality of Small Pox is so much higher than COVID, it is astoundingly disingenuous to even compare the two.
There wasn't even a general mandate for inoculation, or control over information around that. Only General Washington mandated his troops do it, since. . . well yeah, he was a military commander and he could do that.
". . Regardless of some Bostonians' reservations, Boylston continued the inoculation procedures and studied previous outbreaks. To prove the safety of inoculations, Boylston compared outbreaks to demonstrate that inoculations were relatively safe. Boylston noted that during the epidemic of 1721, the estimated fatality rate of those who naturally contracted smallpox was 14%, while the fatality rate of the inoculated was only 2%. Though many Bostonians feared and distrusted the procedure initially, in subsequent outbreaks inoculation was slowly accepted.[6]. . "
www.nps.gov
Back then? Even THEY knew you quarantine the sick. . . NOT THE HEALTHY!
IN FACT, ones chances of dying from the actual inoculation intended to protect against small pox in the late eighteenth century, were still, FAR HIGHER, than the chance of dying from COVID (regardless of whether or not you received the jab.)
That is how exaggerated and bullshit COVID was. It was an excuse by the global and national government to trample folks civil rights and civil liberties.
. . . the founders knew this. Most of them survived inoculation themselves.
AND YET? They made no provision in the Constitution for the right of the government to censor speech, or force the general public to have any medical procedure.