qwerty said:
So if society wants to accept the risk, should the government that represents them let them take it?
They are a portion of society that causes risk to the rest of society. That's not the same thing.
It's just like the lawyer who is arguing that churches can defy state orders to gather because an individual has the right to not receive a blood transfusion based on religious principles... but that's an individual risk vs a risk to the larger population who are not even affiliated with that church.
The virus doesn't say: "Oh it was the partying college student or church goer who I infected, I won't infect anyone else".