Applauding EileenGC and Babdoc.
I live in Germany, as a naturalised German (dual nationality but frankly I haven't particularly identified with my British nationality over the last few years). Started reading this thread last night and was quite surprised it took until the second page for the Nazi comparisons to start.
(Apologies if I repeat anyone else with this) Vaccination rates are a bit better than they look here due to them generally being expressed as a percentage of the total population, but there is still a sizeable contingent of what you could loosely call ideologically non-vaccinated people that, fatally, tend to converge in particular areas of the country. For reasons I don't entirely understand, there has been a sudden and very steep surge in cases, especially in these areas, over the last 3 weeks. We started off from a much lower level than the UK. Cases constantly at UK levels I think wouldn't have been acceptable to either German politicians or the German public.
If you take the exclusive focus on vaccination out of the measures that have been put in place, all they are doing is ensuring particular, non-essential spheres of public life not be accessed by people with a higher risk than others of being infected/transmitting it to others. Your risk of doing so is lower if you are fully vaccinated or have had Covid within the last six months, so those people can access these spaces. Not being able to be vaccinated for documented medical reasons counts you as vaccinated.
if you choose to be unvaccinated, you can still do your food shopping, go to the doctor and the chemist, go for a walk, even meet your family - but then that gathering must have no more than two households total. A German newspaper gave an example which I thought was very interesting - if your immediate family (vaccinated) and your parents (vaccinated) are together and couple friends (unvaccinated) turned up, your parents would have to leave. Certainly in that hypothetical example it would be vaccinated people making room for unvaccinated people again.
I resent the insinuations of totalitarianism (and particularly the Nazi crap, of course). Germany has been publicly soul-searching for months about this, until very recently in the hope that it wouldn't come to it. The governments I have experienced in my 2 decades here have been very well aware of the weight of history and and incursions into individual freedoms are not taken lightly. But there is an increasing feeling that those exercising their choice to be unvaccinated (and, let's not forgot, often influencing others to do the same - don't you think that if totalitarianism was behind this, there would have been a crackdown on that?) are beginning to hold everyone else hostage. If y choice you make risks impacting on the wellbeing of others, then the consequence of that will be not stopping you from making the choice, but taking measures to ameliorate that risk to others' wellbeing you are posing. And that's all these measures are.