Those two options are part of a much larger picture, that seems really simplistic. Most places aren’t doing any real contact tracing right now—the white house certainly isn’t. We might be ‘saved’ by a vaccine, we might not. I don’t think that any of us thought, two weeks in, that we’d still be here seven months in. I figure it’s 50-50 that dancing is a significantly lower risk (say a factor of at least 2) two years in than it is now. There’s no coherent plan, no coherent timeline for how long you have to endure this. Right now it’s people’s employers that mostly decide what risk they get stuck with. Seems reasonable to me that people should get some say themselves, too. Some people may choose to live very careful lives for as long as it takes, others may not.
Those two options are part of a much larger picture, that seems really simplistic. Most places aren’t doing any real contact tracing right now—the white house certainly isn’t. We might be ‘saved’ by a vaccine, we might not. I don’t think that any of us thought, two weeks in, that we’d still be here seven months in. I figure it’s 50-50 that dancing is a significantly lower risk (say a factor of at least 2) two years in than it is now. There’s no coherent plan, no coherent timeline for how long you have to endure this. Right now it’s people’s employers that mostly decide what risk they get stuck with. Seems reasonable to me that people should get some say themselves, too. Some people may choose to live very careful lives for as long as it takes, others may not.