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on the flip side, so much of the Covid discourse was about these fabled policies which would do great things (but required 100% compliance), followed by indignation/panic and hysteria/angry mobs when it turned out that 100% compliance is hard.

[Sporktacular]

We won't need 100% effectiveness and 100% compliance. If they only work at 10% effectiveness, then over a network of thousands, they will measurably save lives.

Studies have shown they work (such as https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33483277/), despite the 'ah, yes but only [insert unsupported caveat here]' of some.