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In this case I respectfully disagree. If it's opt-in, many, many fewer people opt-in. The data on this is a striking and huge difference between opt-in and opt-out countries. All countries should change to opt-out because it would save a lot of lives - and that's exactly the kind of trade off between personal freedom and the greater good that governments are in the best position to make. That's why we have seat-belt laws and helmet laws and government vaccination programs, etc.

The tragedy in this is actually how long countries are taking to wake up to the data and take action. In Canada (BC anyway) it's still opt-in.