In this blog site, I frequently discussion my own fantasy government that I called a dedomenocracy.   One key feature of this government is that instead of asking the population to democratically choose policy, it asks the population to demographically define how to measure the greater good.  When some future crisis occurs, what does the population prioritizes and what is the population willing to sacrifice.   In such a government, I can not imagine that we would agree to sacrifice our younger people (and especially not our young women) for the benefit elderly peopla (and especially not old men).   We do not live in a dedomenocracy.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/02/covid-19-obedience-to-someone-elses-greater-good/