Immune systems do the job, until they don't.

Many of those people, both old and young, died in the process of herd immunity being generated, like it has been happening in this pandemic.

Populations / the human race survived, obviously. It is just weird that some (not all)... https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1381613435616645122

... people who care about individual rights appear to be a bit simplistic about individual lives (of others). Public health seems to be perfect* for game theory, where the "best" choice of the individuals may...

*not quite: see below

... not be the one that maximizes the apparent individual reward, because one has to take into account also what others do, and the consequences of conflicts in the choices. Nonetheless:

- there is always the problem of specifying what the figure of merit to maximize is, ...

... and in a pandemic there is not such a simple one

- game theory assumes rational players, and I am afraid Stacey Rudin ...

... provides evidence that the players may not be rational*

*It is well known that it is not just Rudin's issue; the way humans deal even with simple problems is not always rational, and one has to deal with that. Nonetheless, Rudin appears to be _extremely_ non-rational

cc: @thereal_truther