IIRC, covid risk budgets arose in a group housing context—the idea was that it was an equitable way to balance the risk that your activities were presenting to your housemates, and to prevent the more risk-loving housemates from unfairly exposing risk-averse housemates to undue dangers.
If you’re not concerned about the risk to people close to you, or if they’re defectors who are doing whatever they want anyway, then a covid risk budget makes less sense, and OP’s cost-benefit analysis makes more sense. Of course, as pointed out upthread, if you don’t trust yourself to make reasonable long-term decisions in the moment, then committing to a budget is a pretty good way of lowering overall risk.
I was planning to say this too.
IIRC, covid risk budgets arose in a group housing context—the idea was that it was an equitable way to balance the risk that your activities were presenting to your housemates, and to prevent the more risk-loving housemates from unfairly exposing risk-averse housemates to undue dangers.
If you’re not concerned about the risk to people close to you, or if they’re defectors who are doing whatever they want anyway, then a covid risk budget makes less sense, and OP’s cost-benefit analysis makes more sense. Of course, as pointed out upthread, if you don’t trust yourself to make reasonable long-term decisions in the moment, then committing to a budget is a pretty good way of lowering overall risk.