Livre d'Or

I am generally off the opinion that far too many entities are rushing to reopen against advice.

I'm also the able-est in the household, so what risks I take are really more informed by what risks would be acceptable to the people more likely to suffer worse from an infection.

We've basically agreed that we won't go out but for necessary things like doing the shopping, and I take a masked walk to the park and back because sometimes playing silly walking games means I get exercise. Past that, though, I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home if need be and control what risks I can take when my employer starts offering very limited and distance-based services.

So, really, as much as possible, staying home appears to be the best for mitigating harms, at least for me. Going out, possibly interlinking families or groups that only see each other, all of those things seem like the kind of thing where the calculus is more about what harm it might do to others, and how it might become a vector, so doing things to the minimum of possible infection that still allow a person to have good quality of life sounds like a good benchmark to me.

How nice it would be if those people deemed essential that have had to keep working were compensated and supplied properly for their work.