Idea for a movie
In an effort to avoid the social upheaval that came from COVID, the next time a (less lethal) pandemic comes around the government instead opts for trying to gain a level of 'herd immunity', encouraging people to gather round and be infected. Infectious patients become sought after individuals, paraded as stars in shopping malls and stadiums where people queue up to be coughed on. One patient in particular has an immune system which seems to keep him permanently infectious without ever developing the full illness. One epidemiologist suspects that this will lead to his infection mutating and becoming more deadly. She kidnaps him in an effort to save others from his infection and the two are pursued across the country by the government, those trying to make money off his disease and the public trying to be infected by him.