'Were variolation trials not so legally problematic' It's not like they weren't going to study this, but studying it in a way that doesn't violate the core tena

'Were variolation trials not so legally problematic' It's not like they weren't going to study this, but studying it in a way that doesn't violate the core tenants of medical ethics took longer than vaccine development. Indeed, I see that it has continued to be studied into the present year, but results are not unilaterally good, especially regarding secondary cases. "they would likely have saved many, many lives" This statement is loaded with unfounded assumptions. Governments and epidemiologists, if even if they'd agreed with Hanson, might have had a tough time convincing the population to go to their doctors to be infected with Covid-lite. There are dozens of interventions at every point along the way that might have saved many many lives. What I find most inexcusable is Hanson, a self-styled numbers guy, justifying his urgency with a completely unfounded extrapolation. 'At that rate, in four months deaths go up by a factor of a million, which is basically the whole planet'. This is a completely, laughably unserious analysis. As to the 'futarchy', I think other comments here point out the flaws in any such system better than I could.