(Image: Edwin Hooper/Unsplash.com) The SARS-COV-2 pandemic began with the reasonable concern to protect hospital capacity. Infected patients could not be rightly cared for if hospitals were constantly under siege. As we are now in a constant zylaphone condition, locking down then coming back, and then locking down again, it seems all the more evident that our ruling class managers and medical experts are being misguided by a singular focus. The concern that makes up this singular focus can be stated in the following proposition: social life must be arranged in such a way so as to prevent sickness and death. What makes this principle concerning is not that it is wrong, but that