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You also seem to have a fixation on aerosol virus and N95 masks, as if wearing an N95 would protect you from aerosols. They won't. Aerosol virus goes right through N95 masks. This is why researchers experimenting on competent SARS-COV2 virus have to work in BSL-4 labs. The ones where they have to wear pressurized plastic suits and helmets with an external air supply. Masks block your droplets from escaping and infecting others. They do a pretty good job of that. Not perfect, like most reasonable public health measures, but pretty good.

The US already is "vaccination+". It makes sense to stress the things that make the biggest differences, and the things we can do easily. Yes, there have been some major screw-ups. But most of those were from Trump fighting public health messages coming from the CDC. Sometimes those messages have changed as new data emerges, but that's how science and medicine work. Yes, it would be much nicer and a lot cheaper if we all had single-payer, but the government's response all along has been mostly single-payer! Including the approved vaccines, approved MABs, and approved anti-viral drugs.

The biggest impediment has been politicians: Fighting vaccination mandates. Promoting anti-vax and anti-mask claims for political gain. Promoting "snake-oil" cures. And as a result, one third of the US population sees all efforts to stop the spread of the virus as some sort of Liberal plot to curtail their freedom. Nothing in that open letter addresses this elephant in the room.