my investment in the provision of appropriate healthcare for them is to my benefit. There was a meme going around, around sort of in the middle of the culture war over masks that was about someone who refused to turn on their headlights as they were driving around the city because they could see everybody else. They have the freedom to drive their car on the road so forth and so on. I think that part of the culture war over the mask was where this issue of risk really became and the kind of calculations and miscalculations of risk really came to bear. So this is an interesting part of the book where you couch this observation in terms of the subject versus object as well as our over-individuation. Explain to me what you mean by that. How does our conception of the immunological commons and our conception of individuality interface with the realities of the world and the fact that so many of the risks we face are communal as opposed to individual? I mean, they affect us individually, (14/42)
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