Just to pick this up;

If someone had Covid and recovered from it then they’re basically in a better position than someone who has had the vaccines yet there are people who don’t even know they had Covid.

I think you need to back that up with very good references, because plenty of people have been infected multiple times by the virus, and suffered to greater or less extents. The idea that infection means you have automatically now got an immune response is not true. From my reading of various sources (advantages of working in a group that works on a large Covid-19 database for health science in the UK) there is no conclusive evidence that infection leads to immunity with this virus.
This is collates some results, but again, their demographics for testing are not fully representative nor a large enough cohort. COVID reinfections are unusual — but could still help the virus to spread (nature.com)

In the midst of so much panic and misinformation, it is SO important not to lose our sense of perspective and in our fear of death begin to be afraid of living. What is life without risk? Is a virus with a microscopic chance of killing you really worth the loss of all of our freedoms?

Again to quote this post, and in general. As a scientist myself, I would be careful using the term “experts” like that. It’s been bad enough with the likes of Gove saying “we have had enough of listening to experts” when it came to Brexit. Experts, when they make decisions based upon the consensus of a committee to direct policy is great – until the politicians just ignore the advice.

As to the perspective of dying from a virus, and other illnesses, the point is this; Why should you even have to have the chance of death when the measures to prevent infection are as easy as social distancing,  a mask, and a vaccine.

I would also like to note the issue is perhaps less death due to covid, but a) seriously ill people in hospital putting other patients at risk i.e. not enough beds, operations/treatments being delayed and b) long covid. While we could say “Oh but we cope with winter flu” sure. But that is because our system already is setup with that as part of the service provided in those peak times. Covid is putting people into hospital in the “off season” as it were.

As for vaccine passports, they are not a new thing, and used to be common during the post war era. I think a lot of our current generation’s view of health care measures are based on the fact that health care has improved life dramatically and so we have never had to comprehend limitations on what we can do based upon viruses and outbreaks. Much the same as why back in the day, having a free vaccination for polio was considered fine, even if the data (no matter how fraudulently it was formed) shows vaccines might, might, cause autism (but that is also related to how in this day and age can’t stand to consider their child might have autism for no discernable reason).

Finally if you are worried about vaccine passports, really, I worry more about other stuff, like the UK Gov attempting to crack down on the freedoms of the press. If you worry about your data, well you are a) using a computer and b) likely have a mobile phone. So the gov already knows enough about you.

For context this is the huge project my boss is lead on CO-CONNECT: Linking COVID-19 immunity data – HDR UK

I don’t work on it directly, I don’t do health data but computational chemisty and materials science, plus some drug/disease screening Ai methods.