Epidemiologists cannot know the specific actions of each individual in a community. This kind of knowledge is not knowable to any scientist. The top mistake being made by state governments is their imposing uniform rules that limit the use of local knowledge to fight the virus.
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Safety isn't necessarily a term in the not-so-heterogeneous objective function you claim integrates it (less so if there is a coronavirus business liability immunity legislation.) The "uniform rules" make it part of the game and non-uniform rules can't contain contagion.
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If you want to argue that the cost of containing the virus is too high, given your particular values, cool — do that! People may agree — I don't know. But your making the claim that people can have their cake and eat it, too, which is a very different one.
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