Why Can't Everyone Be Like Me? On "Zero COVID" and Irreconcilables

New Zealand has locked down again today, following news of a single Delta variant infection in the island nation.

This is not, mostly, a post about COVID.  I am not an armchair epidemiologist.  I begin by noting the news from Aotearoa because Prime Minister Jacinda Arden’s government has been among the most aggressive in the world in pursuing a “zero COV…