if you take dumb patients as the problem, you are willing to hurt people with good decision making ability (who would heed their good doctor’s advice to leave t

if you take dumb patients as the problem, you are willing to hurt people with good decision making ability (who would heed their good doctor’s advice to leave the possible ailment untreated) so you can protect people with bad decision making. It seems like we've made this decision with covid-19. Dr. Fauci has been canonized, but we know that he's been intentional misleading the public through misinformation (starting from telling us that masks aren't effective in order to preserve the supply for medical providers, and later mis-stating herd immunity numbers to manipulate people into getting the behavior he wanted).