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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8332856" data-attributes="member: 10148">Folks who can't get vaccinated (as opposed to won't), to include kids under 12. Folks who had weak immune responses to the vaccine.Besides the point [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] raised... the longer the virus spreads unchecked among any sizeable section of the population, the more likely it is to develop mutations that get past our current vaccines. Which could wind up sending everyone right back where we were in 2020.So we need to find ways to persuade enough vaccine-hesitant folks to change their minds, until we can get to herd immunity and the spread is controllable. Incentives, like lotteries, are one approach. Another would have been to keep mask mandates until the percentage of folks fully vaccinated hit herd immunity levels... a percentage which most parts of the world are very far from achieving (and even the U.S. is frustratingly short).</blockquote>