I understand why this logic is appealing but it fundamentally fails to comprehend how this pandemic functions: An individual's risk from COVID-19 is not solely determined by their actions and but also by the actions of everyone else in their community. https://twitter.com/DanZangrilli/status/1293284437074087942

If there are higher levels of COVID-19 infections in a community, everyone is at higher risk of infection, not just some people who decided they're OK w/ higher risk.

If (e.g.) football drives outbreaks, that creates risks for everyone, not just those who chose to play.

Idea of informed consent is really deeply culturally ingrained but is just not how this thing works. Each person can't determine their own risk individually; coronavirus risk is socially determined (I suspect this is partly why the U.S. has struggled so badly with the pandemic).

Put another way: You are at far higher risk of catching Covid in Louisiana than you would be in S. Korea (totally independent of your individual choices). That's b/c collective actions in S. Korea means Covid rates are far lower—& so the odds being exposed are far lower as well.

It would perhaps be nice (& policy decisions would undoubtedly be easier) if the opposite was true: If people could just choose the risks they were willing to bear themselves. But alas, that is not the reality we live in.