If you attend a graduate level CS course on network science, you'll come across network model of herd immunity and mathematical proof of why it is effective. People who developed the model didn't take first amendment into consideration. Otherwise the outcome might have been different.
What does this have to do with anything? Obviously science should be independent from these considerations, but then social policy should not be.
As an extreme example, give me a free weekend and I'll get you a mathematical model of how if we force everyone who ever committed a physically aggressive act to go on beta blockers, then we'll significantly reduce violent crime. But having the math worked out doesn't immediately imply that that's what we should do.
Well the reason herd model does not take first amendment into account is because it wasn't developed by Americans, for a start. My comment was meant to be sarcastic.
