Not your fault, because the 'progressives' do their best to confuse everyone by calling everything an 'epidemic'.
None of those supposed problems are really an 'epidemic' in the true sense of the word, since they are non-communicable 'diseases'. Preventing the spread of communicable diseases is the classic government function -- it goes back at least to pulling the handle off the Broad Street pump in 1854, and in a more general sense to the "plague stones" at the time of the Black Death:
. . . while Jack was pointing me out his steeple, we saw a man lying drunk, as he conceived, athwart the road. He said it would be one Hebden, a parishioner, and till then a man of good life; and he accused himself bitterly for an unfaithful shepherd, that had left his flock to follow princes. But I saw it was the plague, and not the beginnings of it neither. They had set out the plague-stone, and the man’s head lay on it.’- Kipling, "A Doctor of Medicine"
‘What’s a plague-stone?’ Dan whispered.
‘When the plague is so hot in a village that the neighbours shut the roads against ’em, people set a hollowed stone, pot, or pan, where such as would purchase victual from outside may lay money and the paper of their wants, and depart. Those that would sell come later — what will a man not do for gain? — snatch the money forth, and leave in exchange such goods as their conscience reckons fair value. I saw a silver groat in the water, and the man’s list of what he would buy was rain-pulped in his wet hand.
‘“My wife! Oh, my wife and babes!” says Jack of a sudden, and makes uphill — I with him.
To illustrate my understanding of the situation, I had polio back in 1950 when I was two years old. Salk’s vaccine wasn’t announced until April of 1955 but I can assure you that my brothers and sister were vaccinated as soon as it was available to the public. It certainly wasn’t because the government mandated it. If something works it will be used without the need of government intervention or mandates. Your attitude about needing the government to somehow mandate anything is scary and indicates your propensity to give over freedoms without view to repercussions. Give me liberty or give me death. He who gives up liberty for security deserves neither.