A wise man commenting on the CDC's mandates:

I'm still waiting to see your data. Here's mine:

Covid Vaccine effectiveness data from the US 2021 ⁠— did they work?

Executive Summary:
In 2021, the 75% of Americans fully vaccinated produced under 20% of the Covid deaths, while the 25% unvaccinated Americans produced over 80% of the Covid deaths.

In 2021, the 75% of Americans fully vaccinated produced under 31% of Covid cases; while the 25% unvaccinated Americans produced nearly 70% of Covid cases.

This means the US unvaccinated had a 5X higher chance of contracting Covid compared to the vaccinated per capita, and that overall the unvaccinated had about a 15X higher probability of Covid death per capita.

Note: since 'Long Covid' occurs in 15% to 25% of Covid cases, that means there is also a 5X higher prevalence of Long Covid per capita among the unvaccinated.

Details
Source https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e2.htm
is a CDC analysis of 25 geographically dispersed US jurisdictions. It presents statistics on Covid incidence and death rates broken up by "wave" (dates) and age, separately for vaccinated and unvaccinated. Most of the key data is in TABLE 1.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e2.htm

Discussion
Note that the period is Apr-Dec 2021; why? In the first quarter of 2021 we were busily vaccinating the 65+ cohort; the most vulnerable. There was an excess of unvaccinated deaths in that period and not enough vaccinated people to make a fair comparison. Including that timeperiod would skew the data to make vaccines look even better than they are.

Note that the total deaths add up to 117,207, while the total 2021 US Covid death toll was about 550,000. That is because this data is for 25 representative jurisdictions, not the whole nation. This data represents over a quarter of US deaths, so percentages from it are statistically representative of the overall US Covid situation.

Vaccine effectiveness (VE) declined from the pre-delta to the delta to the omicron waves, but vaccines still provided significant protection.

Booster doses were highly effective.

Incidence rate ratios

I am vaccinated And not living in fear, quite the opposite
Vaccinations have saved hundreds od millions

While I've got overwhelming sympathy with your viewpoint, I think it's worth saying also that yours seems a very American perspective, in terms of its conception of 'liberty' (which so often seems to consist in nothing so much as 'no one can tell me not to do X-thing-which-is-actually-intrinsically-harmful if I don't want them to').

In Japan, (a different culture to be sure), people still readily wear masks over and beyond what was commonplace pre-Covid, not out of slavishness but out of courtesy to others.

the point I'm awkwardly making is that maybe the red-blooded freedom-loving Americans AND the CDC have it wrong, in seeing the situation either as demotic resistance to centralisiation, OR as a 'we in the federal govt know best'. Dealing with a disease maybe just requires thinking about other people a bit more, and curtailing one's own actions a little as a result, and where people seem thoroughly incapable or unwiling to be sufficiently selfless, having a little stick along with the carrot (ie "mask mandates").

Not at all saying this applies to you personally, but anecdotally to a lot of your countrymen. And (lest you think I'm being unfair) a lot of my own in the UK as well.

I think we're all in danger of losing perspective, whether we over- or under-estimated the danger that Covid-19 posed/poses.

@hippyjoe1955 I won’t even stoop so low to answer you, you are so pathetic denying reality ! Such a laugh! Keep reading fucks news

I will ask the question I did 2 years ago. When does the pandemic end?

A wise man wouldn't try to make a wordplay out of illiberal.