Im fine with that being a public health decision. Given how rarely mask mandates have been used it seems like public health officials prioritize choice except for extreme situations. That’s fair to my mind. At least in the US the Supreme Court has found public health can trump individual liberties up to a point, and that point is usually forced medical intervention. So they can’t force you to vaccinate. But they can levy fines or quarantine you by force if you refuse. This was decided several times but the key case was one where Boston was inoculating people against smallpox. Someone refused because they had already been inoculated and had had a bad reaction. They wanted to force it on him so he sued and it went to the Supreme Court. Instead he was fined for not inoculating. Interestingly compared to the covid vaccine, which had a whole kerfuffle, the smallpox inoculation was actually a pretty unsafe thing. The micromorts for the covid vaccines are extraordinarily low.
Also note that while I saw several influenza cases in the icu, I didn't see any covid.