I do not see how, even with Biden as POTUS, the US will stop COVID-19 [View all]

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100 million (or so) MAGAts and their families, plus their non-voting brethren, plus the Red/Purple states (especially with Rethug Governors) power structures (and local Red areas as well) in full coronaviral rebellion equals:

1. They will not socially distance, and I suspect they will only increase their violent attacks on mask wearers and social distancers, or people to try to force the insurrectionists to comply
2. They will not close their businesses, even temporarily in numbers large enough to have universal systemic impact
3. They will not wear masks, they will not stop meeting in large groups
4. A huge number (some non Rethugs too) will not take a vaccine (which will be only partially effective IF one is even found)
5. Local law enforcement in many cases will not enforce shit (even in Blue states)
6. They will not close schools in many cases, they will not close their churches, nor their sporting events, in so many cases
7. The will travel to states and areas in their own states that ARE following safety regulations and practices, and spread it there
8. They will violently resist orders, and it will get FAR worse when it is a Democratic POTUS who is trying to crack down
9. A defeated Trump and other RW sources (Fux Newz, OANN, hate radio, hate internet, YT, Twitter, FB, etc etc) will stir up insurrection, resistance, non-compliance non-stop resistance and sabotage of Biden and all Democratic attempts at mitigation.
10. Even herd immunity may not work (even after 2 to 3 million plus die) due to mutations, or a going away of T-Cell and antibody immunity, or simply the percentages needed to for herd immunity to work never being reached.

I am sure I have left a lot out, too.

How does Biden change this? Nationwide martial law? That will cause insane violence and resistance, and there just isn't enough enforcement personnel in terms of raw numbers.

Colour me very pessimistic the US can come to grips with the pandemic, even with a massive Blue Wave in the elections. I can see it TRULY becoming a global pariah state, with Americans banned from entering many nations (barring a 2 or 3 week managed quarantine once they fly or drive in) years, and basically being known chiefly as a death projector.

I so, so, so welcome/am-open-to any suggestions/programmes/hopes/alternative scenarios, etc etc that show me as being dead wrong.