Fundamental rights? You don't have no stinking fundamental rights.

No matter how I got to the thought, I ended up wondering, how many fundamental rights have been breached by governments around the world in their response to Covid-19?

I'll focus on the US and will use a broad definition of fundamental rights to not get wrapped in Constitutional and Bill of Rights debates.  

Right to self-determination

Right to liberty

Right to due process of law

Right to freedom of movement

Right to privacy

Right to freedom of thought

Right to freedom of religion

Right to freedom of expression

Right to peaceful assembly

Right to freedom of association

I believe most Americans would argue that all these rights, explicit or implied are what we would expect and are certainly mirrored in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  Universal they might be but universally respected?  Not so much.  

With vaccine mandates, lockdowns, vaccine passports, masking, quarantine detention centers, restrictions of movement, restrictions on religious services, etc. - which of these rights have been explicitly broken or threatened during the past two years?  Going from actions at the state level, often mimicked at the federal level, we have:

Right to self-determination Denied

Right to liberty Denied

Right to due process of law Denied

Right to freedom of movement Denied

Right to privacy Denied

Right to freedom of thought Threatened

Right to freedom of religion Denied

Right to freedom of expression Threatened and/or Denied

Right to peaceful assembly Denied

Right to freedom of association Denied

Of ten fundamental rights, eight have been clearly and explicitly denied by our government(s) to us as free citizens; one (freedom of expression) has been repeatedly threatened and government has suborned tech companies to participate in suppressing expression; and one (freedom of thought) has been severely threatened by planned and studiously executed propaganda campaigns intended to suppress free thought.  

A pretty dismal record for a nominally free people.  I hope we remember and never forget just how precarious our freedoms are in the face of a self-righteous government bent on forcing us to submit for our own good.