So how much life-insurance do you have? I am betting it is less than $6 million. First round of US lockdowns cost $169billion and saved 29,000 lives - about $6million for each death that was avoided, study finds
- Study looked at cost of government-ordered shutdowns from March to May
- Found that lockdowns saved 29,000 lives at a total cost of $169 billion
- Costs included job losses and declines in companies' market value
- Study comes as states impose new restrictions and virus surges
It isn't clear if the numbers take into account the increase in suicide during the same period or not. And of course there is no mention of the actions of the governor of New York to send COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, which resulted in a lot of dead old people.
And then there is the isolation and general assault on our liberty.
There's a story on FEE this week, saying that suicide claimed more lives in Japan than in October alone than 10 months of Covid took.
ReplyDelete“Far more Japanese people are dying of suicide, likely exacerbated by the economic and social repercussions of the pandemic, than of the COVID-19 disease itself,” CBS News reports. “While Japan has managed its coronavirus epidemic far better than many nations, keeping deaths below 2,000 nationwide, provisional statistics from the National Police Agency show suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, marking the fourth straight month of increase.”
The part about the Covid reaction that has bothered me from the start is that all they measured was deaths from (or with) Covid and no other costs at all. How can you do a cost/benefit analysis if you have no idea of what your lockdowns cost?
They never wanted to do a cost/benefit.
DeleteThe deaths due to or with metric points that out.
If you test positive for COVID but die in a fiery crash on the way home from the doctor's office that is a death "due to COVID." Because they don't make that distinction. Which makes the data meaningless.
So if Japan had 2153 suicides in October, and 2000 COVID deaths all year, how can anyone say that they did a good job managing COVID? Oh, that's right, they lie.