re: No option but to turn my tickets back in.

The concept of public health concerns over the health concerns of the individual had deep roots in 1930’s Germany. Just step into the shower/take the vaccine, it’s for your own good.

"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." Nikita Khrushchev

"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person.” Vladimir Lenin,

“There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual.” Benito Mussolini

"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual” Adolph Hitler (Remember present-day Conservatives would be called liberals in the 1940's)

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
Hillary Clinton

One more quote. A quickie from Ayn Rand: "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."