Mandatory vaccines will not convince people to get vaccinated. It will, however, make people even more suspicious and reluctant.<p>The only way to convince the unvaccinated is by taking their concerns seriously, which is broadly not being done. Instead, people have coopted the issue into their personal political struggle and labeled all skeptics as mentally deficient.<p>As the lines have been drawn, I predict the US, among many other countries, will never approach herd immunity, no matter how bad the variants are. Let this be a lesson for the future.