> The pro-science stance is very numbers-focused, but ignores hard-to-quantify things that really do matter. To me it feels like the numbers are focused on one

> The pro-science stance is very numbers-focused, but ignores hard-to-quantify things that really do matter. To me it feels like the numbers are focused on one metric: deaths from covid (per capita). It seems obvious that that is what we should be focusing on. But I think most humans accept some risk of death in everyday choices. For example, driving to meet your friends to have dinner or "watch the game" or whatever brings some risk of death that "staying home alone" wouldn't. For two years now, people have been in various states of behavioral modification to avoid "deaths from covid". During that time, children have suffered reduced learning; businesses have died or been killed; single people have gotten increasingly depressed; the country has increased anxiety. None of those things show up in "deaths from covid". I don't know what the right answer is. But I do think that I personally am ready to "get back to normal" as much as possible.