Public health establishments have become wholly incapable of assessing risk rationally. No risk is considered tolerable now, and no one is to be permitted to assess their own and act accordingly. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30151-8/fulltext

Note the apoplexy, for example, in response to the simple admonition that we not fear COVID-19 to the point where we allow it to dominate our lives. https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1313353457135362048?s=20

Note the refusal to even consider the fact, widely understood before now, that our innate immune systems play a critical role in combating the spread of a "novel" coronavirus. https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1309885419694288896?s=20

And, witness the abundance of caution used to justify avoiding promising treatments. https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1296267527304052736?s=20

Treatments avoided, schools closed, businesses shuttered, critical healthcare delayed, suicides & addiction rates up, immune systems crippled... Their myopic zeal to eliminate any risk at all from the virus bears a tragic cost.