On the one hand there's the Precautionary Principle. OTOH there's the F*ck Around and Find Out Principle.
Especially when highly-transmissible pathogens with severe long-term consequences are present (clots, strokes, heart attacks, brain damage, immune deficiency as with SARS-CoV-2), odds for a long, free life of happy pursuits—individually + collectively—are way better with one of these behavioral paths than the other.
Everything, and everyone, is deeply intertwingled.
@themaikimo How does this logic not lead to the imposition of authoritarian zero Covid policies like we observe in China?
There is a balancing of concerns that must go on and how each society strikes that balance is open to discussion, but to say that there exists an obvious right path forward bases on foundational ethical norms is, in my humble opinion, an unhelpful oversimplification.
