I understand and agree with a lot of your sentiments here, but the viral spread isn't a factor that can be dismissed easily. Because people view heart disease as something you just have to take personal responsibility for and can be avoided without undue burden, but the virus is something you will eventually come in contact with unless you're a hermit, they elicit different responses. On the flip side though, if you look at it from a purely pragmatic view of "dollars spent per life saved", it's very possible we're not being wise stewards of our pubic money. I have no doubt you could find 5 ways to spend the money we are now fighting COVID on something else that would save more people, but I don't think we should use that as an excuse to not fight COVID.