This sort of mirrors the early history of public vaccination initiatives in the United States for smallpox [1]. Generally, poor and racial minorities were targeted back then, so you even had activists who were anti-vaccinations for anti-racist reasons (Behind the Bastards did a decent episode on it [2], based on the same book the NPR article is based on).

[1]https://www.npr.org/2011/04/05/135121451/how-the-pox-epidemi...

[2]https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...

"targeted" ?

Not OP, but I would imagine that is the right word to use when force is being applied.

If the prion protein was discovered a few decades earlier, a certain Austrian dictator could have used this method to kill much more with much less of the hassle. Think a specific vaccine fore each "race".

Good for them. If theres a clearly bad choice that hurts all of society you need to remove any choice in the matter.

Your authority may have lost it's science blanket: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

I do not support forced actions like this but you appear to cite a source that is confirming that vaccines are effective.