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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by nradov on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:06PM (#24217904)
A vaccine will be nice to have but it won't be sufficient to eradicate the virus. Some people won't be vaccinated. No vaccine is 100% effective. And there are animal reservoirs; we obviously can't vaccinate wild animals.
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by rootusrootus on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:42PM (#24218189)
We don't get 100% vaccination on any disease, but we have eradicated a few and all but eradicated a bunch. We just need something approximating herd immunity levels. Those who want vaccinations will get them, the rest can slowly add to the total until society as a whole is no longer worried about coronavirus.
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by harambae on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:34PM (#24218117)
>Some people won't be vaccinated.

Not just some, but surveys show something like 40% of Americans say they won't take it

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by rootusrootus on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:43PM (#24218198)
If we really get that level of abstention, then maybe it would be a good idea after all to give people who test positive for antibodies some kind of way to prove it.
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