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I think we should also view lockdown costs in life time lost. Hundreds of millions of people now lost a month or more of their lives

by option 7y ago

Exmoor 7y ago
I did the math on this a few weeks ago because I was curious. My math was this: (Population x A) / (LifeExpectancyInYears x 365.25) A is an unknown variable that equals the what amount of a day people consider as "lost" as a result of mandated lockdown. IE, if everyone considers each day they spend not able to go about their business as a day of their life completely lost than A would equal 1. I suppose some people could consider the cost of a day lost to mandated quarantine as greater than 1. Anyway, by my calculations based on a US life expectancy of 77.5yrs (28,287.5 days) and a US population of 330 million then that puts the lifetimes lost per day at 11,666. Note, that's lifetimes lost. IE, as if 11,666 babies were born each day, but instead of living the their full life expectancy they all immediately died. edit: Markdown ate my asterisk symbol and \ doesn't work as an escape character apparently? Changed asterisks to x and the x variable to A.
AnimalMuppet 7y ago
Well, I don't know. I can't go eat out. I can't get together with friends, but I can call them. I can't play pickup games of ultimate frisbee. I can't go into the office. But I get to hang out with my wife and daughter. (I think that's great, but my wife is less enthusiastic.) I'm getting some things done around the house. I can still take the dog for a walk - I just avoid anyone else who's also out walking. I'm doing somewhat less of what I want, but I wouldn't regard it as "losing a month of my life". I don't like playing ultimate that much.
jobigoud 7y ago
Life time lost? If you can't work remotely just pick up some indoor hobbies. Learn Spanish or French, learn to play guitar, experiment with electronics, contribute to an open source software, or teach something you know to someone else over video. Life doesn't stop as long as we have bandwith.

I think we should also view lockdown costs in life time lost. Hundreds of millions of people now lost a month or more of their lives

by option 7y ago

I think we should also view lockdown costs in life time lost. Hundreds of millions of people now lost a month or more of their lives

Exmoor 7y ago

I did the math on this a few weeks ago because I was curious. My math was this: (Population x A) / (LifeExpectancyInYears x 365.25) A is an unknown variable that equals the what amount of a day people consider as "lost" as a result of mandated lockdown. IE, if everyone considers each day they spend not able to go about their business as a day of their life completely lost than A would equal 1. I suppose some people could consider the cost of a day lost to mandated quarantine as greater than 1. Anyway, by my calculations based on a US life expectancy of 77.5yrs (28,287.5 days) and a US population of 330 million then that puts the lifetimes lost per day at 11,666. Note, that's lifetimes lost. IE, as if 11,666 babies were born each day, but instead of living the their full life expectancy they all immediately died. edit: Markdown ate my asterisk symbol and \ doesn't work as an escape character apparently? Changed asterisks to x and the x variable to A.

AnimalMuppet 7y ago

Well, I don't know. I can't go eat out. I can't get together with friends, but I can call them. I can't play pickup games of ultimate frisbee. I can't go into the office. But I get to hang out with my wife and daughter. (I think that's great, but my wife is less enthusiastic.) I'm getting some things done around the house. I can still take the dog for a walk - I just avoid anyone else who's also out walking. I'm doing somewhat less of what I want, but I wouldn't regard it as "losing a month of my life". I don't like playing ultimate that much.

jobigoud 7y ago

Life time lost? If you can't work remotely just pick up some indoor hobbies. Learn Spanish or French, learn to play guitar, experiment with electronics, contribute to an open source software, or teach something you know to someone else over video. Life doesn't stop as long as we have bandwith.