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Yes I do realize that drunk driving is illegal and I support that. I think you are misunderstanding my post, which is about doing the science to determine the actual probabilities involved with having and transmitting covid, along with the probabilities of serious harm. Then after multiplying all of those probabilities, comparing it with drunk driving as a relative measure.

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That's an interesting point of view. If we know the rate of an event's outcome, in aggregate, is X, why is it important to know if A * B * C = X, or to know A/B/C at all? Totally sincere - I don't know if I'm missing something.

Imagine we're bottling soda in plastic bottles. There's an X% chance that a bottle explodes during the process. We also know if we over-fill a plastic bottle with CO2 the start it makes it slightly more elastic, and empirically it reduces that rate by Y%. We're not really sure why they were exploding, but we know that stretching them works.

Do you care about the other parts of the bottling process?

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