> If our goal as a society is to ensure most people stay healthy and alive, perhaps yours is not a good approach in all cases. Prior to COVID-19, we used to be

> If our goal as a society is to ensure most people stay healthy and alive, perhaps yours is not a good approach in all cases. Prior to COVID-19, we used to be able to acknowledge that we make choices every day that do not maximize the number of healthy and alive people, yet we made them anyway: both on a personal and societal level. That's because maximizing the number of healthy and alive people is not the only goal of society.