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Mead posted...

how would that be enforceable though? I dont disagree Im just trying to imagine what it might look like.

We've managed to mass-vaccinate as a society before - it's the main reason why smallpox is no longer a thing (at least until someone uses one of the lab samples to recreate it as a biological weapon and dooms us all, or it escapes from a frozen corpse as climate change defrosts a glacier or two).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication

The problem, whereas once upon a time, people were willing to accept that sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the good of society (and millions of people a year survived who otherwise would have died), now we're at a point where almost no one trusts our own governments or the UN (or science), and the Internet spreads misinformation far faster than actual fact. So people are much more willing to push back - especially when you're dealing with a virus that seemingly only kills "old people" and "people who already have problems", so it's much, much easier to just say "well, if I catch it I'll just ride it out" or "ehh, it's someone else's problem".

It doesn't help that there really isn't a clear or worthwhile effort coming from above - as much as people shat on Trump and his administration for not handling the problem effectively, it's not like Biden's done much better. Though it's also not clear that either of them could have done a much more significant push in a highly politicized environment where more than half the country is going to hate you no matter what you do.

I'd probably be more depressed if I wasn't already so cynical.
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