This post honestly got me a bit emotional. I have been thinking of emigrating too, to be honest. It's getting too far and I still had a little hope this is all just in my "conspiracy" mind and everything'll get back to normal. Apparently, it only gets worse and you know what sucks even more? The fact that I watch what happens in the US and know the same things will come here in the EU soon enough..

I don't think there are many options out there - and I fear that, post my emigration, the remaining non-compliant countries will have to kneel to those draconian crappy measures too so it'll all be for nothing really. At least here I can sit with next to my family as long as we still are allowed to.

Switzerland doesn't look to me like a good option. Go here, press CTRL+F and search for "Switzerland". They only seem like the good ones, or at least used to seem, but they aren't what they used to be anymore. I don't know much about Iceland, but there's something you have to keep in mind which is... the things you know about the corruption and everything that you know is wrong in the US may be nothing compared to another country and the only way you'll find that out is if you personally live there for long enough. You could ask somebody on Reddit to give you an insight but maybe you have another perspective, another vision so their insight becomes worthless.

It honestly looks like the COVID-19 administration we (Romania) had in the past few months, which is literally but unofficially a non-chosen temporary government, is trying every now and then to take it to another level: dictatorship. They planned to take everyone >45 years old to COVID quarantine centers, and that was a legit plan but citizens started some internet revolt so they said they postponed it, so I do expect the plan to continue soon.

Our President has turned from a seemingly good guy to a semi-Nazi in a matter of weeks. If that wasn't worse enough... He has earned the Kalergi European Award which is damn scary (give Kalergi a quick look to see what it's all about). So the thought of moving to a country I never heard is slowly getting to communism/dictatorship is scary AF.

The economies in those non-compliant countries will thrive until they won't anymore. This is a literal domino, they'll be hit too (or at least I personally think so). Wouldn't be a surprise if US declares some kind of war on them to do the same thing they've done to Syria and all the other countries they've destroyed. Biological warfare or real combat, who the fuck knows anymore.. everything is too uncertain right now.

Cashless... oh well, Romania now has an authority called "Authority for Romanian Digitalization" which promotes cashless society. Some shops here are starting to impose taxes if you want to pay by cash (for now it's $1 on some shops; so you have to pay products + $5 delivery + $1 cash tax). It's driving me crazy, because they will strip money off us until we finally decide to stop using cash so they could say "oh well, nobody's using cash anymore so we're going full digital!".

When I go to a supermarket, every 2-3 minutes a voice alert telling us to keep distance from others and pay with card is repeated. It honestly got printed inside my fucking brain like some damn MK Ultra programme. Every shop I go to, I hear that every 2-3 minutes. If I don't, I see everywhere these alerts printed and scotched on walls, windows, everywhere.

The number of people fighting against these things is very low in most countries. Very, very low and once you start crying out loud, you'll become the enemy of compliant citizens. One country I know the President has had a strong opposition to COVID and draconian measures is Belarus, but tbh I never studied it in-depth to know if it's worth it to move there or not.

Gates and his f'ed up plans would make me feel threatened too though if I lived in the USA. I mean, I already feel the threat from thousands of miles away because I know this will go worldwide.

I compared your fears to what I feel from here to let you know that it's not just the US - here it's just as bad, maybe even worse. At least.. in the USA you can buy weapons easily AFAIK compared to Romania and most of you own weapons. If a riot begins here and someone wants to loot my house, I'll have to fight using either some bat, glass bottle, knife, machete or bare-handed. That's it.

Just take time to properly think about every pro and con because you don't want to move to a country that could put you into an even worse situation - especially if you don't know their culture, history, politics etc. Never even thought of the "second wave" as a wave of riots. That one did make me think.