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Originally Posted by beepbeep

IMHO, in order for this to work we must have following igredients:

- Well researched plan that is made by cool heads during "peacetime" that has best chance of working.
- Mutual trust between government and citizens: citizens believe that plan is for their best and government believe that citizens will do their part without resorting to force.
- Government that is willing to waste an opportunity to look "decisive" and let boring scientists do their job instead.

We had that. It was thrown out for expansive emergency powers that violated citizens rights while actively making the problem worse.