Vaccine passports.
"Proof" of who we are (show your ID to shop here, to to board a plane, etc) -
Retirement!
Thank you @owasco for another great freewrite. I love how your Muse takes over for you and in the free-flow of words, you find your thoughts and ideals as if they've been brought out and arranged on a table for you to observe. That's how I see it anyway. The "aha!" moment that emerges in freewriting.
My m.o. is to wander into tangents that your post inspires, but today I am resisting the urge to "go there" and comment on the Project Lockstep kind of thing, the pressures to obey and conform and not question the mandates.

But I keep wondering when the meme of hermits in caves and wise men on hilltops got going. I have seen it in cartoons for more than half a century. I will go this far, and no farther: