When this was announced, I knew this would happen.

Whenever you have a group/person/bureaucracy where the chief measure of success is zero failures, progress will never be made because of absolute risk aversion.

So, 1 in a million chance is blood clots outweighs herd immunity. https://twitter.com/kdrum/status/1387621231973703681

An analogous situation: military range safety agencies, where the chief concern is not the safe operation of ranges, but pure safety itself.

Which is why you can’t ever do anything novel on military training ranges.

If you ever want to get to Yes, organizations need to be given the mandate to balance competing interests, not mandated to seek an absolute (“safety,” etc.)

Meanwhile, the public health morons have defeated themselves once again—they literally cannot not to that—and the public is paying the price of their failures.

States which handled the pandemic well seemed to have governors which understood that public health people were not in the business of balancing interests, so the governors took on that role.

Thus TX, FL, etc.

While states and localities that didn’t do that were those that only amplified the obtuseness and the baroque prescriptions of the public health morons.

And thus you have Chicago, CA, NY, NYC, DC, etc.

Exception...

Exception that proves the rule: when states and cities wanted to riot for justice, their leaders found ways to balance competing interests.

That is the only time they did that.

Another case of a Governor balancing against the public health idiots... https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1387603451052314625