Liberty?

Logic seems not to apply. The Omicron variant of Covid19 is surging in the UK (as in many other locations, such as the US). Recent data has confirmed that, having received 2 doses of vaccine, now offers little protection against an infection by this latest (for now) variant. Getting a 'booster' dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, improves things but many people in the UK are not yet in a position to receive it (a timing issue, even after a 'relaxation' of the rules). Young children (in which infections are surging) are still not approved for any vaccination. The UK government has been carried 'kicking and screaming' into advocating an adoptation of its 'Plan B' for England. Government seem to have finally concluded that booster doses of vaccine will not, on their own, be sufficient to limit new infections. Plan B increases the requirements for wearing face masks in defined circumstances, offering proof of vaccination/negative tests to enter some large-scale events etc. These are all things that have been in place in other parts of the UK (in one form or another), since the last lockdown. Plan B is a pretty minimalistic response. Substantial numbers of MPs in the ruling party are threatening, however, to vote against these measures (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/09/government-faces-tory-backbench-revolt-over-plan-b-covid-measures). It is claimed that members of the Covid Research Group (a real misnomer) are doing this because the requirements are an attack on civil liberties. The same people are apparently only too happy to vote for amendments to their own government's Planning, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/08/boris-johnson-grabbing-more-power-amendments-to-oppressive-legislation-uk). If passed, this bill will criminalise most forms of democractic opposition to government plans. Objecting to road building, rail development and airport expansion will carry prison sentences. As could, objecting to fracking or the slow rate of reduction of the release of 'greenhouse gases' etc, etc. Perhaps civil liberties are only for parliamentarians? Another expression of the 'one law for them and another for us' principle?