The "thought" part is just caring about yourself, your country, and your fellow human, so I have to push back a little on "giving this so much thought is nuts" part. When it comes down to it, I'll always agree on any sort of freedom angle. I do not support the gov't mandating vaccines for private businesses when it comes to my vote, but I do support it from a personal angle, because that's what I think is the best thing for people in the long run.
Honestly I just check-the-fuck-out when people start talking about the things that contribute to Covid deaths like weight and age, because....what is the purpose? Are you saying that it's not murder if you shove an old fat guy down the stairs because a young healthy guy would have survived? Of course not, so why do you feel that you have a right to spit on people and kill them? Because technically that is exactly what's happening and as we know with freedom, you have all you want until you screw with someone else, which we do with our spit, so I have no problems from a constitutional angle with requiring masks in all public locations where people are within spitting distance.