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Risk assessment is ultimately the individual’s choice.

You may have had a point in the beginning when so much was unknown about the virus. How it spreads. Who it affects.

But distributions are much clearer now.

If you’re part of the vulnerable cohorts stay home, cleanse everything from the outside. That’s your safe choice.

A person who makes risky decisions is putting their own health and the health of everyone around them at risk. It's not a personal decision. We're 12 months into this thing, I thought that was well understood?

I go along with the lockdown policy only out of a sense of duty to my community, but ultimately I can protect myself alone. That being said, eventually people are going to decide they want their lives back if this isn't improving.

Your analysis is not symmetric. If you're making a decision on what level of risk you're ok with, that is (by definition) in relation to other people also making similar calculations

I thought the point of the lockdowns was to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed?

Has that problem gone away?

Two weeks to flatten the curve. Remember that one?

"Two weeks to flatten the curve" feels like gaslighting in retrospect

It was flattened. Then it skyrocketed again.

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