I'm completely neutral in all of this but I guess a "righteous battle against oppression" is one of those things that is in the eye of the beholder considering racism in Ukraine has been on the "world stage" and the whole treatment of African immigrants/students trying to escape reminded a lot of people of some of those incidents. But I digress...
You keep missing the point. The policies were centered around stopping the spread of COVID, which as I stated, made all things equal. If I have a shot that lowers my chance of going to the hospital and you don't, why should I be able to freely move about and you face scrutiny, when we both can catch and spread the virus?