mandating vaccine use is just the basics of public health. we do it for children with polio, with mumps, with measles. for the longest time the military was reluctant to mandate vaccination. i can remember talking with commanders in the heart of the battle space. and surprisingly small percentage of them were vaccinated. even though they were -- might be required to be vaccinated for anthrax which is a worse vaccination they were balking at being vaccinated for covid. that seems to be changing. if the military takes the lead, as so often happens in our country, other parts of society may follow along. the part to me, somehow resistance to vaccination got