two years into this you are more than welcome to drop your morality and virtue signaling]
this guy says it best
Yes, we do need to learn to live with risks. It is called risk management. A required competency for any business person, and one which we need to extend to our personal lives as well.
Let's take one modern risk - that of death or injury by automobile. We could reduce that risk to zero by never getting into a car and never crossing a street. But we don't do that, and rightly so. We believe that the benefits provided by that automobile are worth a certain degree of risk.
And so we manage the risk as best we can. How? Through application of REDUNDANT CONTROLS:
* Safer cars and highways
* Adherence to driving rules imposed for the general good.
* Voluntary actions, even if they reduce our physical comfort (seatbelts).
* Exercising care in driving, yielding right of way, showing concern for other drivers.
* And maybe sometimes we choose not to drive somewhere if we think the risk is too great (adverse weather conditions, poorly lit dangerous roads).
COVID is similar. We manage risks through redundant controls. Vaccination, masking, testing, distancing. And yes, in some cases avoidance. Through these actions, each of us can find the optimal risk-reward point that we are comfortable with.
Living with risk does not mean ignoring risk.