No, I just don’t think we need to treat the diktats from on high as the voice of God. The folks who would like to direct our lives are always claiming to speak with the authority of “the science”, when in fact they are just human beings making the best guesses they can. There is no safe time or best time to allow people out of their houses, there’s just a balancing of the various costs and risks. Treating an individual’s walk on the beach like a threat to civilization just makes a fetish of authority.
Personally, I think most people’s idea of critical thinking is a set of opinions that matches their own.