> I want to know when people estimate that the societal damages of the illness start to be outweighed by the damages of our response. Loss of life to the inner

> I want to know when people estimate that the societal damages of the illness start to be outweighed by the damages of our response. Loss of life to the inner vs loss of life caused by economic consequences, I've seen that argument before and it's not entirely unappealing. But wherever I saw it there was the unspoken assumption that the economy would just continue completely unaffected by an uncontrolled epidemic. But much of the economic damage will be there no matter which path you take. There are likely same areas where a short, hard wave would even be worse, economically, than a controlled lockdown. The delta is even harder to estimate than the cost of slowdown strategies, but an argument that only looks at the economic cost of one option is flawed. Personally, given the choice, I'd take option C, "show me a rerun of 2019". Unfortunately this isn't in the cards that we are dealt.