"Anyone can always choose to self-isolate based on their own personal risk factors and risk tolerance."
The problem with this statement is that COVID is not a 'personal' issue. It's a systematic issue. Your disease affects everyone.
To put in a different kind of 'Liberty / Responsibility' context - how about we allow anyone who contracts COVID to sue the person they got it from for damages!
Then how many people are going to go out, and how careful they are going to be?
While we may not need 'shelter in place' for <70 populations, we are inevitably going to face social distancing etc..
We need to 'get smart'.
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And 0.5% IFR already at the age of 50 is scary.
In this 'new era' there are a lot of people over 50 probably nearing 40% of the population or something like that.
The problem with this statement is that COVID is not a 'personal' issue. It's a systematic issue. Your disease affects everyone.
To put in a different kind of 'Liberty / Responsibility' context - how about we allow anyone who contracts COVID to sue the person they got it from for damages!
Then how many people are going to go out, and how careful they are going to be?
While we may not need 'shelter in place' for <70 populations, we are inevitably going to face social distancing etc..
We need to 'get smart'.
...
And 0.5% IFR already at the age of 50 is scary.
In this 'new era' there are a lot of people over 50 probably nearing 40% of the population or something like that.