Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
For that matter, we in America need to bring back public health's powers to contain outbreaks early.

Yeah, agree wholeheartedly.
We cannot go through a repeat of the Putin-fueled Republican funded anti-vax hysteria.

I.
just.
can't.

It got so bad here for a little while that I actually considered concealed carry to protect my wife.
Thankfully I decided I wasn't cut out to be some hyper-vigilant cranked up guy always on alert and trying to
take matters into my own hands, but it got so bad that instead we just hunkered down for about a month watching
the hysteria.

Public health directives have the force of law, but the problem is, law ENFORCEMENT is decidedly on the side of the anti-vaxxers, so there's no teeth.
We cannot afford to go through this crap again...when public health says do something, people better damn well do it.
It's like that Army tee shirt:

"Saving your dumb ass whether you like it or not"

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