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"They will enforce if necessary (reasonable!)" Only related to individual instances when people engage in careless *criminal* behavior. "We" are not a hive-mind collective. I think we're already beginning to see overreach.
Plenty of people drive drunk, use electronics while driving, etc. and harm noone. Some kill children. At a certain point you have to decide where to create and enforce community rules of engagement to avoid moral hazard. They're not easy lines to draw on low information.
This case is much trickier, because transmission chains amount to a group of people inadvertently and more-or-less unknowingly cooperating to maim or kill the weak and old. The path between going out for a few beers and killing a diabetic two towns down is totally obscured.
I don't support laws against "texting while driving," e.g. If you start driving carelessly or hit something, you should be stopped and charged. But good luck arguing against it. You immediately get accused of wanting people to die in a terrible car crash, and you can't recover.
Well, fine, substitute for careless driving — that seems like a fine place to draw the line. Plenty of people drive in a visibly careless way and don't harm anyone.
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