I hear you, and you're not wrong, but the "why not" approach does feel like a slippery slope, which could be considered a logical fallacy except in that _it has

I hear you, and you're not wrong, but the "why not" approach does feel like a slippery slope, which could be considered a logical fallacy except in that _it has already been slipping_. It is important for me for the numbers to justify the cause, and not just because "why not". If the disease appeared today with its current severity, would the world stop?