Public health, the public good, and where collective responsibility lies

While it is true that the declaration of a state of emergency grants a government a great deal of latitude, it remains true that simply because a government can exact such measures does not mean that it is necessarily justified in doing so.
The government is being transparent that it is basing its current policies on predictive modelling. It is not, however, being transparent about how it has arrived at the data it is enlisting, the quality of that data enlisted, the methodology of arriving at its forecasting or dynamic models, nor the degree of their epistemic strength. Here’s what that means.
HAMILTON—Question: is public health the same as public good? I respond: No. I assert: all pu...

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