> You have replaced the actual recommendations and public orders with a call for complete removal of bodily autonomy even though this was never the case. Scien

> You have replaced the actual recommendations and public orders with a call for complete removal of bodily autonomy even though this was never the case. Scientists do not put out orders, that is the job of politicians. Science can only tell you, if you this you run the risk of that. A proper scientist would tell you the only way to avoid being infected or infecting others is to be chained into place. > Has anyone said, "We want to eliminate all risks"? People won’t say ‘we want to eliminate all risks’ but if the consequences are presented as being scary enough, they will take any action to avoid them, which factually is the same thing. Concretely many people want to ‘shelter in place’ until there is no more risk they can be infected and a lot of these people want everyone else to do that as well. It is the job of politicians to evaluate these risks properly and for that they need to listen to both medical scientists, like epidemiologists, so they know what risks they can avoid using their orders, but also economists so they know what costs they incur by these orders. It should be clear that if they do not do this properly the result can be taking measures that are unsustainable or incur new, worse risks. > Has anyone said, "Hanson must not be allowed to speak"? > But by all means, let's all presume that an economist like Robin Hanson [...] has somehow come up with an idea that has escaped the notice of that entire segment of the population dedicated to human health. If Robin Hanson speaks he must be ridiculed because what could he possibly have to bring to the table that no one has thought of before (and then I even cut out the vague insinuations about his motives). But anyway I have no idea who he is and did not refer to him in my comment. My only point is that if you immediately dismiss the input of economists and others outside medical science, you’re only looking at one side of the story and are bound to take poor decisions.